Part-Time Library Associate, Brookwood School, Manchester MA
Posted May 20, 2014
Reporting to the Library Director, the School Library Associate will play an important role in developing content for the library website, maintaining bibliographic quality in the library collections, and performing some teaching responsibilities. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability to think creatively about best practices in new and emerging learning applications, databases, and research models for the elementary aged students at Brookwood, an independent school, serving students from Pre-K – Eighth Grade located in Manchester, MA.
Job Goal
Assist Library Director in the full utilization of services, materials, and resources offered to the students, faculty, staff, teaching apprentices, and parents.
Duties and responsibilities include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following areas:
- Develop engaging and visual curricular web content supporting the academic resources on the Brookwood library website;
- Experience with Library applications, LibGuides, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, iMovie, iPad apps, and other presentation applications;
- Provide assistance in organizing and maintaining the library environment;
Qualifications and Attributes
- Ability to be a positive advocate for the library program and to support the direction/mission of the library program;
- Knowledge of children’s and young adult literature and a familiarity with an active school library;
- Excellent interpersonal skills and institutional judgment. Ability to collaborate easily with multiple departments and personnel;
- Strong writing, editing, and problem solving capabilities;
- Excellent organization, communication, and customer service skills;
- Understands and maintains confidentiality;
- Operates computers, iPads, eReaders, digital cameras and other technologies with ease, and has a willingness to upgrade skills on a regular basis;
- Attends to detail, organizes and performs tasks with a high degree of accuracy;
- Creative self-starter and finisher with a sense of humor;
- Must be able to multi-task, quickly moving from one effort to another;
- Must accept supervision and assigned tasks with a willing spirit;
- BA, BS, MLS with experience in a school library setting and/or currently enrolled in a MLS Library Science graduate program;
- Demonstrated interest in computer science;
Terms of Employment:
24 hours per week
Applicants please email resume and references to Sheila Geraty, Library Director [email protected]
Brookwood School – Eleanor M. DiCroce Library
http://www.brookwood.edu/library/
Brookwood School Website