Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
• Collaborate with subject teachers and coordinators to ensure appropriate library resources are available to support teaching and learning.
• Provide the expertise necessary to ensure that library provision is aligned with the mission, goals and objectives of the school and materials are appropriate for use.
• Actively promotes reading and library use through activities such as book review, book club, displays, publications, reading programs and special events.
• Instill a culture of reading and life long learning in the students and ensure equitable access to information.
• To manage and be in charge of the library and supervise users (students and staff) at all times.
• To carry out regular maintenance of library materials, including book withdrawals and returns to maintain the relevant collection that supports student learning.
• To carry out classification, maintain the cataloging of books and library resources, supervising labelling, protection, display and shelving of library books and materials.
• Build and maintain relationships with external organizations and stakeholders to develop and promote an effective school library programme.
• Responsible for recommending and ordering of new relevant materials to ensure a current and balanced collection of library resources.
• To assists with tasks related to borrowing /returning library books/resource materials by helping students find resources for class assignments, inspecting returned books for damages and sending out due notices for unreturned items.
• He/she will notify students when reserved books are available.
• Ensure appropriate security measures are in place to protect library resources and effectively manage and track books overdue for return.

Qualifications

• Interested candidate should possess a Bachelor’s Degree with at least 3 years experience.