Graduate Library Trainees – 2 vacancies
£23,665.00 (1 year fixed-term contract)
We are looking for two confident, proactive individuals who enjoy team-work and are interested in pursuing a career in librarianship. The post would particularly suit anyone seeking experience prior to studying for a library/information qualification.
You must be a university graduate (or equivalent). Previous library or information experience may be helpful but is not essential. Experience of working in an office or customer-facing environment is highly desirable. Knowledge of the law or the legal sector is not required.
The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn
Gray’s Inn is one of four Inns of Court responsible for calling barristers to the Bar of England and Wales. The Inn provides continuing legal education post-qualification, the Library, the Chapel, dining, scholarships, advocacy training and other facilities for students and barristers.
Gray’s Inn Library
The Library houses over 75,000 books, journals and law reports, including rare books and manuscripts dating back to the 11th century. It offers the full range of general English legal materials but also collects in over twenty specialist areas of law, including its flagship international law collection, maintained on behalf of all four Inns of Court. The Library also offers a range of online resources and a professional enquiry service for students and barristers.
Duties include
• Providing an enquiry service for barristers and students within the Library and by phone or email
• Fulfilling document supply requests for copies of law reports, journal articles etc.
• Serials administration and cataloguing (under supervision) using SirsiDynix
• Library housekeeping tasks including looseleaf filing, shelving, binding preparation and some liaison with library suppliers
• Assisting with projects such as stock moves, re-cataloguing, creating library displays
• Contributing Library content to the Inn’s social media channels
The Inn offers a generous package of annual leave and other benefits, including free lunches during legal terms. For further details and an application pack please email [email protected] (quoting reference – Graduate Library Trainee – in the heading).
Closing date for applications: 23 July 2021. Interviews are expected to take place on 5 August 2021 and start dates in the second or third weeks of September are anticipated.
Gray’s Inn is an equal opportunities employer
Guy Mitchell
Director of Library Services
Gray’s Inn Library
5 South Square
London
WC1R 5ET
020 7458 7822
www.graysinn.org.uk/library
