Learning Resources and Centres Assistant at Eduvos

Eduvos is looking to employ the services of a Learning Resources and Centres Assistant Temp  at our Mowbray  campus.

The Position:

To manage the campus resource centre.

Position Type:

Fixed Term Contract

As the Learning and Resource Centre Assistant , you will be primarily responsible for the following:

• Collection Development
  • Build a collection to support the academic goals of the programmes
  • Ensure that all prescribed and recommended resources (e.g. journals, books, newspapers) are available – student and lecturer resources
  • Review stock on hand and determine what stock is needed
  • Obtain quotes for required stock
  • Prioritise stock in collaboration with Academic Manager and relevant lectures based on budget and need
  • Review old stock for selling/donation
  • Co-ordinates, prepares and motivates/ makes recommendations for annual Resource Centre budget and submits to General Manager
• Technical processing of material according to Eduvos process
• • Add holding (already catalogued stock) and items to the library system
  • Label and classify books
  • Cataloguing of campus stock
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the Resource Centre
  • Manage and control facility (study rooms), computer usage
  • Provide a space for students to join virtual workshops and webinars
  • Assist with managing all auxiliary services such as the use of the printer and computers
  • Refer students to the relevant stakeholder when queries are received
  • Issue and return books using the LIS (ALMA)
  • Pull up report of patrons’ overdue book records and follow up on their returns
  • Pull up and send out reports of overdue fines of students to the finance department at the end of the year
  • Offering online support (myLMS) to end-users
• Reporting and maintenance of administrative records
  • Conduct bi-annual stocktaking and compile a report
  • Prepare and provide Bi-weekly reports to the National Resource center Manager
  • Provide feedback to the Academic Manager on all Resource Center related issues
• Induction and training of users
  • Facilitate the Resource Center Induction and orientation of all new students, and general and academic staff
  • Market the resource center, its databases, Open Access Resources, information Literacy course and the online catalogue to all students and Academic staff
  • Train students, Academic staff on how to use the Information databases and online catalogue
  • Provide guidance to students on methods to use to enable them to do information searches for research and accessing the information required
• Provision of Information Services and User Information (Library)
  • Support students and academic staff with necessary information resource requirements
  • Communicate all library activities to users

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