Are you looking for the next step in your librarianship career? We are looking for an enthusiastic, friendly and proactive Library Manager, ready to join a hardworking and dynamic team in our 30th year anniversary.
Role Purpose
This is a fixed-term part-time job-share with the Library and Archive Manager for 12 months starting from June 2024. This is a key post responsible for co-managing, promoting and developing iniva’s Stuart Hall Library, supporting users, volunteers and research associates. Stuart Hall Library is a unique specialist collection of resources on contemporary visual art and culture that centres publications from Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives and houses iniva’s institutional archives on artists, exhibition and publication history.
The Library Manager will have shared responsibility for collection management tasks such as acquisition, cataloguing, preservation and promotion of exhibition catalogues, journals, artist’s books, zines, artist monographs and audio-visual material. In addition, this role will have the sole responsibility for line managing the Assistant Librarian, library volunteers and placement students.
Stuart Hall Library plays a significant role in iniva’s artistic programme. Working closely with iniva’s Artistic Director and Curator, the Library Manager will also oversee programming within Stuart Hall Library related to research talks, reading groups, tours and inductions during opening hours. This role also involves responsibility for opening and closing the library, including one Saturday per month, as well as occasional after-hours events.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be a proactive and approachable person with demonstrated experience of managing a front-end library service independently or within a team. You will have demonstrated experience in cataloguing a wide range of materials from monographs, exhibition catalogues, zines and audiovisual material to current RDA and MARC standards. It is equally important for the candidate to understand radical librarianship and the need for critical thinking in their approach to cataloguing contemporary art resources about diaspora artists and publicly speaking about the collection. Demonstrated experience working with the Library Management System KOHA and subject knowledge in contemporary visual arts and culture would be advantageous, but training and support will be provided.
About iniva and Stuart Hall Library
iniva is a care-led, mindful and hard-working organisation, driven by a small team with an international reputation. Our vision is for everyone to know the global histories and legacies of internationalism and the Black British Arts Movement and to invest in its future.
Stuart Hall Library is a unique specialist collection of resources on contemporary visual art and culture that centres publications from Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives and houses iniva’s institutional archives on artists, exhibition and publication history.
Candidates from underrepresented communities are particularly encouraged to apply for this role. We are committed to increasing the diversity and inclusion of staff within the Arts and Libraries sectors. We welcome applications from everyone who meets the person specification of the role.
A full job description can be found here.
How to Apply
Please send a completed iniva Job Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form – download below – to recruitment@iniva.org with ‘Library Manager’ as the email subject.
CVs are not accepted as part of the application.
Note: Please note candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, have a UK visa or work permit to apply for this role.
Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form
Deadline
The deadline for applications is Sunday 5 May 2024 at 11.59pm.
Applications received after this time will not be accepted.
Selected candidates will be notified by 10 May.
Interviews will be held at iniva on 16 or 17 May.
As part of the interview process, there will be a short cataloguing assessment for shortlisted candidates.
Please note due to limited resources, unfortunately, applicants not shortlisted for the first round of interviews will not be informed.