AddressWe are seeking to fill several ongoing Library Officerroles at the APS3 level across various sections within the Collection Branch.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in an innovative and collaborative workplace where exceptional team players and technical specialists can flourish. As part of the Library's team, you will help support organisational reform, working collaboratively with your team to shape the Library's future.
The Library prides itself on providing a culturally safe workplace. It also offers generous working conditions, including:
- A range of options to support work/life balance and flexibility, such as purchased leave, additional days off during the Christmas/New Year period, apart from certain front-facing roles, and flexible working arrangements.
- Study support, including study leave and financial assistance.
- Family friendly leave provisions, such as maternity, adoption, foster carers and partner leave.
- Community and cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees.
The key duties of the position include
The Collection Branch collects today what will be important tomorrow. The Branch builds the collection in an efficient and automated way to enable the community to discover, learn, enjoy and create new knowledge. The Collection Branch is responsible for several core functions including selecting, acquiring, and describing collection material, managing rights in relation to collection material, and protecting the Library's collection through preventive and conservation treatments.
These roles undertake straightforward tasks that support the acquisition, description and accessibility of the National Library of Australia's collection. These roles may require you to undertake tasks relating to the processing of collection material including item or collection level description and enhancement for all collection formats.
Tasks may also include:
- Creating or updating descriptive and/or collection control metadata
- Labelling and housing collection items
- Processing new collection material, including unpacking and sorting mail
- Organising collection housing materials for donors and vendors.
Our ideal applicants will be able to:
- liaise with section stakeholders.
- contribute to team goals and objectives and have awareness of their contribution to team outcomes.
- be responsible for managing prioritisation of their own workload and maintaining accuracy of information and work.
