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Cranfield University; Shrivenham; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Cranfield University seeks a motivated Library Collections Support Advisor to join the Barrington Library at Shrivenham. You will help staff and postgraduate students discover and access resources, ensuring content is discoverable across our catalogue and systems, including receipting book orders and handling interlibrary loan requests, theses, and reports.

After required security checks, you will support compliance for storing and handling classified documents and staff our Library Welcome

Qualifications

• Assist with a range of library back-office functions.
• Receipting of book orders and handling interlibrary loan requests, theses and reports.
• Staff Welcome Desk and respond to enquiries in person and online.

Responsibilities

• Support discovery of resources across the library catalogue and systems.
• Maintain accessibility of content for staff and postgraduate students.
• Work in a hybrid setup with on-site presence when needed and remote work where possible.

Skills

Customer service

Job description

Library Collections Support Advisor

Company: Cranfield University Salary: £27,537 to £28,091 a year Hours: Full-time Location: Shrivenham Working pattern: Hybrid - 3 days remote Job type: Permanent Posting date: 14 Oct 2026 Closing date: 2 Nov 2026

Summary

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team and help our staff and postgraduate students discover and access the library resources and services they need for their research and studies, working from the Barrington Library at Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK in Shrivenham.

About the Role

This varied role covers a wide range of important library back-office functions. You will assist with a range of tasks that contribute to the effective management of library collections, ensuring content is fully discoverable and accessible from our library catalogue and other systems, and that access meets user needs as efficiently as possible. This role is responsible for receipting of book orders as well as handling interlibrary loan requests, theses, and reports. Following security clearance checks and training, you will help ensure our processes meet government requirements for storing and handling classified documents. You will also play an important customer-facing role, staffing our Library Welcome Desk and responding to enquiries in person and online through email and webchat.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield's world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here.

Library Services is at the heart of Cranfield University with operations in three different sites. Learn more about Library Services here.

Our Values and Commitments

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here.

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. We are a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to actively exploring flexible working options for each role and have been ranked in the Top 30 family friendly employers in the UK by the charity Working Families. Find out more about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.