Retail, Sales and Customer Service - Library Assistant
Retail, Sales and Customer Service - Library Assistant
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Library assistants help librarians to manage the day-to-day running of a library.
- Help users access print and online resources
- Organise IT access and answer library users' queries
- Check materials in and out
- Deal with counter, phone and email enquiries
- Catalogue new resources
- Shelve returned items and arrange repair of damaged materials
- Promote collections or new library resources
- Make sure copyright licence agreements are followed
- Maintain databases and records
- Help with events and activities like storytelling or author sessions
You could work at a library, at a school, at a college or at a university.
Library Assistants tend to work between 34 to 36 hours a week. You could work evenings and weekends on shifts.
Starting: £17,000
Experienced: £23,000
You can apply for a job as a library assistant if you have some experience of working in a library, an archive or information service, for example as a volunteer. You may need GCSEs grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) or equivalent, including English, to apply.
Experience working in an administration, customer services or IT role would also be useful for applying directly.
You could do a library, information and archive services assistant advanced apprenticeship.
This typically takes 18 months to complete as a mix of workplace learning and off-the-job study. If you have an EHCP you may be able to apply under the DfE exemption which allows the apprentice to use Entry level 3 English and Maths qualifications. The apprentice would have to be component enough to successfully achieve all other aspects of the apprenticeship requirements, become occupationally competent and achieve Entry Level 3 in English and Maths before the end of their apprenticeship.