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Unlock Your Potential as a Librarian!
Join our team at the Central East Correctional Centre. Use your technical skills and communication expertise to provide essential library services, fostering education and personal growth among inmates.

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About the job

As part of our CECC team, you will provide library services to 1,250 adult male and female sentenced and remanded inmates. Every day will be a little different, but you can expect it to include activities like:
• organizing and maintaining the library's collection, including cataloging, and classifying materials.
• providing circulation and reference services and arranging inter-library loans.
• assisting users with inquiries and providing information on library services.
• maintaining circulation systems, updating records, and preparing purchase orders.
• supervising and instructing inmate helpers, ensuring safety and security.

Please note: This position requires working with and providing direction to inmate helpers (and will be eligible for a Custodial Responsibility Allowance)

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What you bring to the team

Knowledge:

You have:
• expertise in library procedures for circulation, reference, cataloguing, minor repair, inter-library loans, and serials/publications management.
• familiarity with library policies and guidelines to operate and maintain various library services.

Analytical Skills:

You can:
• perform descriptive cataloguing and search for library materials using inter-library loan procedures.
• assist others in locating and retrieving information, books, periodicals, and conducting literature searches using manual and/or automated systems.

Computer Skills:

You are:
• proficient in using computers and software applications for automated systems, data input, updates, retrieval, and report writing.

Communication Skills:

You are a clear communicator who can:
• provide information to library users on stock, borrowing process, inter-library loan process and services and circulation services
• demonstrate tact and courtesy when responding to requests, instructing, and maintaining control of inmate helpers, and dealing with behavioral issues.

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Don't meet every qualification?

If you are excited about this position and meet most, but not all, of the listed qualifications, please still consider applying. We recognize that no one person might have every qualification in this job ad, and you just might be the right candidate!

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How we support diversity, inclusion and accessibility

We are building an inclusive workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We encourage everyone interested in working with us to apply, including people with disabilities, Indigenous, Black and racialized individuals, as well as people from all ethnicities, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and gender expressions.

Our hiring process is accessible, consistent with Ontario's Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005. We are working to prevent and remove barriers in our hiring processes and can offer accommodation to address specific needs related to Code-protected grounds such as disability, family status and religion. For more information about accommodation during the hiring process please contact us.

Learn more about the work the OPS is doing to create an inclusive, anti-racist, accessible and diverse workplace:

• diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• accessibility
• Anti-Racism Policy

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