Library Technician - Supply List

Waterloo Catholic District School Board; Kitchener; On-site; CAD 44,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board is hiring a Library Technician to support curriculum delivery and information literacy across schools in the Waterloo Region. Responsibilities include maintaining the library collection, assisting students and staff, and managing cataloguing and inventory using the Board's systems.

The role involves supervising book exchanges, literacy initiatives, and reading aloud to groups, plus handling budget and communications with school administration.

Qualifications

• Requires Library and Information Technician Diploma and 1–2 years experience with children.
• Proficient in MS Office and library software.
• Understanding of cataloguing and inventory processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and sound judgment.
• Ability to plan work, multi-task and prioritize.

Responsibilities

• Supports delivery of curriculum and information literacy by helping patrons locate resources.
• Maintain a physical collection and shelf-read for order.
• Facilitate book exchanges, literacy initiatives, and reading aloud to groups.
• Provide orientation and training to students and staff and run library services via web pages/newsletters.
• Maintain library budget and select materials per Board policies; communicate priorities to administration.
• Produce overdue notices for library materials.
• Develop library collections within Board policies and school needs.
• Catalogue and circulate materials using the automated library system.
• Maintain AV equipment and provide setup and troubleshooting.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Multi-tasking

Planning skills

Prioritization

Education

Library and Information Technician Diploma

Tools

MS Office

Library software

Cataloguing system

Job description

Library Technician Supply List

The Waterloo Catholic District School Board with a total student population of 38,000, provides services to students in 52 schools (Kindergarten to Grade 12) across the Waterloo Region.

The Board conducts intentional recruitment and selection as it seeks to achieve a state of greater equity for employees and students and to diversify its workforce.

All qualified applicants are welcome and encouraged to apply and applicants may choose to indicate if they are from a group who has experienced racial or social discrimination. Self-identification data will be used as a consideration in this posting. Aggregate data will be stored anonymously to support improvements to the Board’s hiring processes.

General Description of Duties:

• Supports the delivery of curriculum and the development of information literacy by helping patrons locate and use relevant print and electronic resources.
• Maintain a physical collection by shelving materials, shelf-reading for shelf order.
• Facilitate book exchanges, literacy initiatives, readers advisory, and reading aloud to groups.
• Provide orientation and training to students and staff as well providing library services and literacy activities within the school through web pages, and newsletters.
• Maintains the library budget and selects new library materials based on Board guidelines and the needs of the school community; communicate with the school administration on priorities.
• Produce overdue notices to account for all library materials.
• Develop school library collections considering needs of the school and operating within parameters set out in Board policies.
• Catalogues and circulates library materials using the automated library system.
• Maintains the AV equipment collection, and provides basic set‑up and troubleshooting.
• Manage technology e.g. Chromebooks, tablets, cameras. Including cataloguing, processing, inventory, repair and troubleshooting of this equipment.
• Maintains bibliographic records using reports and undertakes regular inventories of the library collection as outlined in Board policies.
• Knowledge or training in library systems software including cataloguing and inventory, and online databases.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must have completed the Library and Information Technician Diploma in addition to possessing one (1) to two (2) years of experience working with children in a school or public library.

• Proficient in computer applications; MS Office, library software.

• Understand the cataloguing and inventory processes.

• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and sound judgment.

• Ability to plan work, multi‑task and prioritize.
• Required to work a minimum of 5 supply shifts each school year (September through June)
  

Hourly Rate: $31.86 to $33.48 per hour

Location: Various Schools Throughout Kitchener, Waterloo Cambridge, and Elmira

Only those candidates selected for an interview will be notified.

All successful candidates will be required to pass a physical prescreening test as a condition of employment.

AODA Statement

To request this file in large print, please email [e-mail]. If you require a disability related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please contact us at [phone], extension 2368, or via email at [e-mail] to indicate your needs under the Ontario Human Rights Code. Responses to inquiries will be provided within 72 hours.

A Privacy Statement

At WCDSB, we are committed to respecting your privacy and will take appropriate measures to protect any personal information you may share with us through the job application process. Personal information is collected under the authority of the Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.2, s. 171(1)3, and pursuant to section 28(2) of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). The information collected will be used for the purpose of determining eligibility and qualifications for employment and for administering human resources and employment‑related functions. Questions regarding this collection may be directed to the Board’s Privacy Officer at 519-578-3660 ext. 2381.

Successful candidates will be required to produce a satisfactory Vulnerable Sector Criminal Background Check. For further information refer to Administrative Procedure: APS 038 on the website of the Waterloo Catholic District School Board.

All qualified applicants are welcome and encouraged to apply. Applicants may choose to indicate if they are from a group who has experienced racial or social discrimination. Self-identification data will be used as a consideration in this posting. Aggregate data will be stored anonymously to support improvements to the Board’s hiring processes.