Library Technician

**Req ID: 151960**
**Company: Nova Scotia Health**
**Location: Central** **Zone, **Flexible Within the Zone**
**Department: IPPL Library Services**
**Type of Employment: Casual** **Casual Relief** (3%** **FTE) x 4** **position(s)**
**Status**:Admin Professionals** Position**
**Posting Closing Date: 24-Mar-23**

Nova Scotia Health is the largest provider of health services in Nova Scotia, with some specialized services also offered to clients throughout Atlantic Canada. We’re on a mission to achieve excellence in health, healing and learning through working together, which is reflected in the hospitals, health centres and community-based programs we operate across the province. Our passionate team of professionals provides a variety of high-quality inpatient and outpatient services including academic, tertiary, and quaternary care, as well as continuing care, primary health care, public health, and mental health and addictions. Join a diverse team of innovators, collaborators and creative thinkers today.

The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team facilitates and advances person-centered care through evidence-based professional practice and learning strategies and programs that are designed provincially and implemented locally to enhance collaborative learning and practice. The Interprofessional Practice and Learning team takes a leadership role in creating a culture of collaboration with a focus on team-based care, evidence-informed practice, and learning and professional development to improve health outcomes for patients, families and communities. Through strong partnerships with the academic sector, regulators, and government, the Interprofessional Practice and Learning team has an integral role in influencing and operationalizing health system priorities.

**About the Opportunity**:
Under the general supervision of the Manager Library Services, and the daily supervision Librarian Educators, this position supports aspects of the following operational areas within the department:

- Engagement and Web Presence
- Collections and Technical Services
- Content Management Systems
- Learning Management System (LMS)

Skills/knowledge required to support operational needs fall into these categories:

- Editorial
- Basic understanding of copyright principles
- Customer Service and Collection Access
- Knowledge of publishing and distribution channels supporting library acquisitions
- Knowledge of publication and financial details
- Experience providing information services and corresponding with clients across a variety of communication channels
- Classification and cataloguing
- Familiarity with MeSH is an asset
- Web Design and Content Management
- Experience with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap coding, etc.
- Knowledgeable about Springshare LibApps, InMagic DB/TextWorks, DOCLINE, Internet browsers, collections maintenance
- Experience with Excel, Articulate, PowerPoint, Word

**About You**:
We would love to hear from you if you have the following:

- Successful completion of a recognized Library and Information Technician Program
- Minimum of 2 years library experience or equivalent
- Health Science Library experience preferred
- Completion of a medical terminology course an asset
- Knowledge of library procedures and resources
- Experience creating and editing web pages using basic HTML coding
- Able to use library technical equipment such as photocopiers, scanners and fax machine
- Experience formatting and proofreading both print and electronic documents
- Competencies in other languages an asset, French preferred

Successful Applicants are required to provide a Criminal Record Check (including Vulnerable Sector Search) to Human Resources before starting employment and assume any associated costs as a condition of employment.

**Hours of Work**:
Casual Relief
- Beginning May 1, 2023**Salary Information**:
$22.32 - $25.37 hourly
$43,528 - $49,464 annually
$26.25 hourly ($51,195 annually) with 25 years' relevant experience.

**Once You've Applied**

This is a Admin Professionals bargaining unit position. Preference is given to bargaining unit employees for unionized positions. Employees are encouraged to view their seniority hours and dates in their SuccessFactors online profile. Successful applicants changing unions, bargaining units or employment status, are advised to seek clarification regarding their seniority, benefits, and vacation entitlement and/or usage, prior to accepting the position.

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