Part-time Librarian

Reporting to the Executive Director, the librarian will develop a relevant resource collection on topics relating to violence against women, children and youth, and make it available to members. The focus of this position is on promoting and circulating books and audio-visual material. The ideal candidate will be passionate about issues related to violence against women, children and youth, have experience working for a small non-profit organization, and enjoy serving remote library users. A self-starter, you will work independently, balancing the need to provide services to members with the many demands of running a small, one-person library in one day/week. Your excellent communication skills will enable you to liaise with the membership as well as with BCSTH staff.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop the library’s collection of books, audio-visual material and online resources. Manage the library’s budget for acquisitions.
• Catalogue resources in the integrated library database, Destiny, using descriptive cataloguing, MARC coding and Library of Congress classification.
• Provide circulation services to members across BC via the Canada Post library materials rate program.
• Promote new resources to membership by creating new resources lists, and contributing library entries to the weekly newsletter, and participating in listserv discussions when appropriate.
• Respond to reference questions from members and BCSTH staff.
• Manage the Destiny integrated library system.
• Maintain library policy and procedure manuals.
• Collect statistics, report on library use and advise on library development.
• Prepare book displays, as requested, for training events including the annual training forum.