Library Assistant

Library Assistant

Part-time, permanent

  Salary: Grade 3.14, £11,317.80 pro-rata (£28,294.50 FTE) – inclusive of the Oxford University weighting (pro rata)

15 hours a week

St Hugh’s College is seeking a Library Assistant. The Library Assistant will be assisting the Librarian to provide efficient library support and services to the College community and will have primary responsibility for routine tasks. This role would suit a person who would like to develop their library career, or who is embarking on a professional library qualification. The successful applicant will be helpful, efficient, approachable, and willing to work closely and flexibly as part of a small team. In addition, he or she will have a good honours degree (or equivalent experience), excellent written and spoken communication skills, accuracy and attention to detail, and the ability to interact well with readers and staff members. The post requires good time-management and organisational skills to balance a range of duties, which will from time to time include both clerical and more manual work.

Responsibilities will include dealing with routine enquiries from readers, shelving books and periodicals, tidying shelves, monitoring the alarm system, and supervising the reading rooms. Other responsibilities will include processing and labelling new acquisitions and donations, assisting with the induction of new readers, including the use of SOLO and electronic resource, assisting with in-house repairs, and participating in collection management projects.

Applicants should have a formal qualification: BA (or equivalent experience), excellent communication skills, both written and oral with good time management and organisational skills. You should also have the ability to build good working relationships with other members of staff and to work both closely together with them in a small team and independently as needed.

Benefits include: a pension scheme; 40 days annual leave, which includes all public holidays, complimentary meals at work.

For further information about the role, please contact recruitment@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

To apply for this role please download, fill out and submit an application form and equal opportunities monitoring form and send alongside a copy of your CV via email to recruitment@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk. References will be taken up for the successful candidate.

Closing date: Midday on Wednesday 26 August 2026

Interviews: It is anticipated that interviews will be held the week commencing 7 September 2026 in person at St Hugh’s.

St Hugh’s is a self-governing College of Oxford University and is an Equal Opportunities Employer.