Urgent Hiring For Librarian (Pune -Magarpatta)

Role & responsibilities

Academic Support:

• Ensure the students develop skills in locating, evaluating, synthesizing, exposure to diversity of genres and using resources available to solve problems.  
• Empower them to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information 
• Serve as a teacher, materials expert, and curriculum adviser to ensure that library is involved in instructional programs of the school.  
• Create and maintain a teaching- learning environment that is welcoming, safe, flexible, and conducive to student learning in the school library
• Should develop and maintain a collection of resources that is appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the teaching styles and instructional strategies used within the school. 
• Establish processes and procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, and resource sharing 
• Ensure the library management system is maintained and supporting its use by student 
• Should effectively plan school library program to meet identified needs 
• Ensure that the school library program (SLP) is aligned with the mission, goals and objectives of the school and is an integral component of the learning/instructional program
• Must be updated with professional practices and developments, information technologies and educational research applicable to school library programs

Admin Support:

• Ensure proper management of issuing and returning, shelving of the librarys stock 
• Ensure timely maintenance of the library registers and other statistical
  records. 
• Must take an active role in school improvement and accreditation activities 
• Should maintain inventories, discarding /weeding stock, compile statistics, and generate reports as required, file cards in shelf list and process new materials for shelving.
• Should compile with, maintain, and file all physical and computerized reports, records, and other documents required
• Ensure an accurate inventory of resources & Index materials for the pamphlet collection
• Must share expertise by presenting at faculty meetings and trainings, parent meetings and school workshops.
• Be active participant, accessible and an informed proponent of the school library profession 
• Should determine the type of cataloguing required, develop, and maintain cataloguing procedures, search external database programs for the availability of cataloguing copy.
• Enter cataloguing data into the library's automated system with complete records where only partial copy is available.
• Interfacing with other staff members as and when required.
• Interfaces with center and corporate office team as and when required
• Interface with external vendors for any functional issues.

Preferred candidate profile

• M.A. in English
• Bachelors in Library Science/ Masters in Library Science
• Knowledge of Categories & genres of books
• Ability to manage a library and its collection
• Ability to instruct and manage student behavior
• Operate computerized library
• Maintain a positive and effective relationship