AddressWe are seeking to fill several ongoing Senior Library Officerroles at the APS4 level across various sections within the Collection Branch. Roles vary from collection description and research to acquisitions and rights management.
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 more complex procedural, administrative and service-related tasks that may require you to:
Collection Management roles - undertake tasks relating to the processing of collection material including item or collection level description and enhancement for all collection formats. You may also be involved in supporting the pre-publication publisher services and supporting the Library's oral History Transcription and Summary program.
Collect and Acquire roles - action collection acquisition decisions across all streams of collecting - published and archival, in either physical or digital format. Internal and external stakeholder liaison is required as well as capacity to work autonomously.
Curatorial and Collection Research roles - make decisions on planning, selecting, assessing and appraising, and commissioning material for acquisition.
Rights Management roles - make decisions on rights, including copyright, privacy issues and indigenous cultural rights. You may also be involved in licensing, requests for access and drafting and updating agreements.
Our ideal applicants will be able to:
- build rapport and liaise with internal and external stakeholders.
- contribute to the delivery of team and branch objectives.
- manage prioritisation of their own workload, and the allocation of work to others, maintaining accuracy of information and work.
- assist in decisions that impact the overall outcomes for the functions of the team they are involved in.
