Assistant Librarian – Lincoln’s Inn Library
Salary: £27,000 – £33,000
We are looking for an Assistant Librarian with at least one year’s post-qualification experience to join our team running this busy law library, serving barristers and bar students.
The job is interesting and varied involving a great deal of enquiry work, together with some cataloguing, database management, and acquisitions work. Some experience in legal information work is highly desirable, but applicants with relevant experience from other backgrounds will be considered. Experience of using a Library Management System is also highly desirable.
As well as having worked for at least a year since library school, applicants should have strong reader services and reference work skills, a high level of IT literacy, and be able to offer a friendly and confident face to users. Availability for evening duty until 8 pm once a week and for occasional Saturday working is required.
The salary in the above range will be according to qualifications and experience.
The successful candidate will join the Inn at a very exciting time. Construction work has just begun on a building project, which includes a major extension to the existing library space and the provision of an additional reading room.
In addition the Library is set in extremely pleasant surroundings and has a friendly and relaxed working atmosphere. We offer attractive employment packages, with benefits including:
· Generous annual leave entitlement, 30+ days
· Combination of paid overtime and time off in lieu for hours worked in excess of contracted hours
· An excellent free lunch
· Interest-free season ticket loan / bicycle loan
· Childcare vouchers
· Death in Service benefit
In addition, after a six month probationary period, we offer:
· Private medical insurance
· A non-contributory stakeholder pension scheme
· Eye tests and free chiropody
· Payment of CILIP and BIALL memberships
Closing date for applications: 25 July 2016.
Interviews will be held during the first or second weeks of August 2016.
For more information about Lincoln’s Inn see: www.lincolnsinn.org.uk.
For further job details and information on how to apply, please see: http://www.lincolnsinn.org.uk/index.php/staff-recruitment/current-vacancies
Please do contact me with any questions or queries which can not be answered in the above details.
Catherine
