Librarian Job@American University of Nigeria (AUN)

The American University of Nigeria (AUN) was established in 2003. The institution was conceived as Africa's first Development University. Its mission is to pioneer service learning and build leaders who will be prepared to tackle societal concerns. Located in Yola, Adamawa State, the University is a world-class career-oriented institution missioned to be an agent of change in the development of the region. AUN has a strong commitment to providing the skills and the leadership essential to solving the continent's critical social and economic problems.

AUN, Yola, is seeking for suitable qualified candidate to fill the position below. This position is a local position and opens to indigenous and/or legal residents of Nigeria:
Job Title: Cataloger
Location: Yola
Department: Digital Service
Summary of Position

• The cataloger is responsible for the cataloging aspects of preparing new materials to add to the digital services collections.
• This includes retrieving matching bibliographic records for items from the OCLC system and saving and adding them to the Library’s online public catalog. This is done as part of the order process, before items are ordered.
• When ordered materials are received, the cataloging assistant re-checks the bibliographic record against the item in hand, edits the record as necessary, and adds a bar code to the item.
• Also, He shall among others Performs original or copy cataloging of all forms of the digital services department’s resources using the Koha library software.

Position Requirements                            

• A Bachelor’s degree in Library or Information Science with three years’ experience in cataloging in a digitalized library setting.
• Technological familiarity with computers, photocopiers, scanners and printers is desired.
• Excellent oral and written English communication skills.
• Intermediate to expert level competence with MS Office and database applications.
• Dependable and flexible with regard to hours.
• Enthusiasm, energy, accuracy, organization and service-orientation.
• Willingness and ability to learn new library procedures, ability to work independently and adapt to a fast-paced work environment.
• Ability to undertake self-directed tasks when necessary.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to supervise volunteers.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Experience using Koha and other automated library systems.

Other requirements, abilities for the position:

• Ability to maintain a conducive atmosphere for job productivity and satisfaction where team goals are aligned to meet library objectives.
• Ability to communicate, share, evaluate and measure plans.
• Ability to experiment and take risks and responsibility for outcomes
• Be willing to work hard to identify alternatives to achieve objectives;
• Act to maintain a healthy sense of urgency.
• Strong supervisory and team building skills.

Description of Benefits
Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience and job classification as approved by the University.
Application Closing Date
10th June, 2016.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their resumes/CV's, cover letters and references to: recruitment@aun.edu.ng The position being applied for should be the subject of the email.
Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Librarian Jobs @Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State

Department of Library and Information Science (Faculty of Education)

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the under-listed vacant academic positions in the University.

Important Notice

• Interested applicants for both academic and non-academic positions should visit the University website www.fuoye.edu.ng for information on method of application, academic and professional qualifications, experiences required for each position and the template for presenting acceptable curriculum vitae.
• All applications for both academic and non-academic positions are to made online. Please visit www.fuoye.edu.ng
• Applicants will be expected to download their forms after applying and submit five (5) copies of the downloaded application and curriculum vitae to the Personnel Affairs Division of the Office of the Registrar before the closing date.
• Multiple application by an applicant will result to disqualification without notice
• Preference may be given to qualified candidates from the following states: Bayelsa, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Niger, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara and FCT.

Department of Library and Information Science

Job Title: Professor
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Job Title: Senior Lecturer
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Job Title: Lecturer I
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Job Title: Lecturer II
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Job Title: Assistant Lecturer
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Job Title: Librarian 1
Location: Ekiti
Tenure: Full Time

Application Closing Date
4th July, 2016.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. For further enquiries contact: recruitment@fuoye.edu.ng

Source: The PUNCH Newspaper, Monday, May 23, 2016 Pg. 48&49

NLA OYO ACU 2016 CONF-WORKSHOP

Proactive Librarianship for Productive Enterprise in Nigeria 12-15 June 2016 Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo. Oyo State

Overview

What are the forgotten, underplayed and emerging productive enterprises in Librarianship that can revitalize the professionals, the society, and will always encourage students to make librarianship their first career choice? What will prepare library officers, librarians and other information professionals for the society and uncertain future?

In an age of rapid social, economic downturn and technological change combined with significant shifts in population, the planning and delivery of library services by stakeholders is a complex process and business. In response to frequent seeming societal and government apathy for the library profession, library development and use in the electronic age, this conference/workshop aims to provide a basic framework and explore what proactive librarianship means in practice for productive enterprise in Nigeria. And to address in the Nigerian context, the emerging role of the library in the 21^st century for effective delivering of library services in the six library categories.

We will look at the current challenges in the digital age and tell the past, present and future productive enterprise in the profession via the library categories.

Why this conference?

Passive nature of the Nigerian society to librarians, the library, its development and its services is an overlapping challenge. Therefore, it is high time we analyzed our communities and their particular needs. The traditional idea of libraries being defined as storehouses for books and records that has been ingrained in the public perception and still the mainstay of practicing librarians must be eroded. Now, we have to evaluate data and information for the purpose of fostering knowledge and wisdom. It is time to provide proactive and direct marketing sorts of services that will transcend the current traditional views of the profession and continue to play an important role in our workplace and society.  We need a strategic planning that will provide a useful structure for creating and implementing library technologies ensuring that our libraries community of users will consider the most important information tools the library offers.

SPECIAL GUESTS  

Conference Chairman: Dr. Okwilagwe Oshiotse, LARIS University of Ibadan

Keynote Speaker: Barrister Harrriet Dapo-Asaju, Lagos Nigeria

Father of the Day: Profesor Lenrie Aina, Former Chairman of Oyo NLA & National President of NLA

Co-host:  Rt. Rev, Prof Dapo Folorunso Asaju – The Vice Chancellor, Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo

Special Guest of Honour: Mrs A.O. Makanjuola Honorable Commissioner of Education Oyo State

v  NINE CONCERNED PROACTIVE LIBRARIANS HAVE BEEN INVITED AS WORKSHOP TRAINERS

Benefits of Attending

v  Participants would leave this workshop infused with the essential component of proactive librarianship, namely a passion for libraries and their importance in the community.

v  Practical ways of accessing productive enterprise in Librarianship for effective transformation of our diverse community

v  Apply strategies to targeted audience in our multicultural setting

v  Introduction into the basic concepts and practical exercises of proactive librarianship in practice

v  Discuss the technologies that are affecting library services, to see examples of what libraries are doing with these technologies and learn specific skills or knowledge that you can take back and adapt for use within their own library.

v  Get a highlight of library services that translates into useful strategies and practices for libraries.

v  Possible application of concepts to library categories situation and experience

OTHER TIPS

ü  Identification that proactive Librarianship begins with the individual who needs certain skills, knowledge of techniques and above all passion that will result in libraries getting more understanding, use, support and funding.

ü  Workshop is designed to be highly interactive with great deal of work expected from participants before and during the workshop

ü  Self-reflection and self-examination, written exercises, oral presentations, small group discussion, questionnaires, lectures and peer evaluation

ü  Every participant will emerge from the workshop with enough ideas, facts, examples and notes to prepare various strategies to practice proactive Librarianship

Who Should Attend?

Library lecturers, Librarians, library officers, Library Professors, and others involved in the library services, will learn how to approach proactive Librarianship lacking in our communities that will culminate to the transformation of our societies and acceptance.

· Academic, public, corporate, government, special, and school librarians

· Archivist, Library directors and executives

· Information managers

· Information architects and specialists

· Researchers

· System professionals

· Content managers

· Technical managers

· Information professionals

Why Attend?

· Rediscover the insights, strategies and library best practices that allow us to revert to aggressive library services, and enhancing the information sharing and learning experience of people in our communities.

· Meet and hear from the concerned experts in the information industry as they integrate content and in creative ways, setting the context for excellence in information dissemination, and utilisation in their respective organisations

· Gain access to leading-edge companies offering library technology, including web-based products and services, integrated library and information systems, online services and document delivery services

· Skills-focused content: The event will concentrate on developing and applying proactive skills for effective library service. Delegates will be engaged in developing practicing skills in a variety of hands-on, real-life scenarios. The ultimate objective is to not only enable delegates to acquire proficiency, but also to have the confidence to competently apply it on the job

· Industry focus: Our speakers are concerned industry thought leaders. They will share real-life practical experiences and a wealth of procurement transformation strategies enabling you to take away ideas that apply to your unique library teams

· Forge New Connections: Meet and network with people who could transform your Library. And transform your thinking. This event represents a unique opportunity to meet some of the greatest minds in library services. BE PART.

Dear Workshop Participant,

I am delighted to have you registered for the Workshop on Proactive Librarianship and I look forward to a busy and productive time together. In order that we all derive the maximum benefit from the time that we have, would you please prepare the following and bring with you:

1. A brief talk on a career in Librarianship and Information Science. You can decide on your own audience and your notes can be in point form (delivery open to negotiation).

2. A short press release on any one of the following:

a. A new appointment to the library or the visit of a prominent librarian from outside the state, country, or

b. The opening of a new library or a new service, or

c. Any library event such as the creation of an interest or user group or an exhibition of any kind.

You can write it out fully or, if it is easier, you can structure it as points. You can use real people and events from your own experience or a mixture of fact and imagination if necessary.

3. A letter to prospective members of NLA OYO – again point form if pressed for time.

 These tasks will form the basis of some of the practical discussions. But to place them in their theoretical context, it is very important that you note down whilst doing these tasks exactly how you approached them – what factors you considered important and your reasons for choosing the particular content, language and presentation. You can also note down any strong feelings you experienced. These private notes can also be in point form as they are intended to assist you in the discussion

 If you find these tasks difficult or have any other comments please bring them to air on the day. A word of reassurance – what you prepare, although important, is less important than your awareness of how you went about it. 

Sincerely,

Joseph O. Olorunsaye, (CLN)

Workshop Chief Host/Chairman, Nigerian Library Association (NLA) Oyo State Chapter