Library Manager (part-time)
Salary: £34,000 per annum (Pro rata £20,400 full time equivalent)
Hours: 3 days per week (21 hours), Fixed Term Post (12 months)
Location: Stuart Hall Library, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
iniva (Institute of International Visuals Arts) is looking for an enthusiastic, friendly and proactive Library Manager, ready to join a hardworking and dynamic team in our 30th year anniversary.
This is an exciting part-time job-share for 12 months starting from June 2024, responsible for co-managing, promoting and developing iniva’s Stuart Hall Library, supporting users, volunteers and research associates.
The Library Manager will have shared responsibility with the Library and Archive Manager 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.
The full job description and person specification for the post can be found by clicking on the Apply button.
To apply
Please complete the Application Form and Equal Opportunities Monitoring form available to download from iniva's website and email them to recruitment@iniva.org with ‘Library Manager’ as the subject. CVs are not accepted as part of the application.
Please note candidates must be eligible to work in the UK, have a UK visa or work permit to apply for this role.
Deadline
The deadline is Sunday 5 May 2024 2024 at 11.59pm.
Applications received after this time will not be accepted
Selected candidates will be notified by 10 May.
Interview
Interviews will be held on 16 or 17 May 2024 at iniva.
As part of the interview process, there will be a short cataloguing assessment for shortlisted candidates.
Informal enquiries about the post can be made to Library and Archive Manager, Tavian Hunter: thunter@iniva.org
Please note due to limited resources, unfortunately, applicants not shortlisted for the first round of interviews will not be informed.