Bayside Library Service is open for 209 hours, seven days a week, through four branches. We have an average of 1,520 people through the doors, answer 173 reference questions and issue 2,680 items every day. Our services are available 24 hours a day on the Internet and anyone can be a member. We run seven pre-school Storytime sessions every week, five Baby Rhyme Times a month and three Book Bugs a month.

We also conduct four adult Book Clubs per month as well as concerts, talks and special events. We are not just about books we provide a centre for people to learn, stimulate their imagination and engage socially with other people in the community, in a safe and comfortable environment.

But, just like not everyone who works in a hospital is a doctor, not everyone who works in a library is a librarian! There is great diversity in the types of jobs to be done, and all are important.

Librarian

Librarians help people find information, decide what items to purchase and withdraw from the collection, offer training programs, help people use the internet, maintain the library catalogue, and more.

The information desk is an important area of the library that requires accuracy in ensuring that the information given is authoritative and accurate. It is important that this area of the library service exceeds the customer’s expectations with the services that we offer. This is why it is important that we have qualified trained staff answering reference queries.

Librarians at Bayside often have a specialist focus in a specific area including, adult services, youth services, reference services and local history.  To work as a librarian at Bayside Library Service, you will need to have a formal qualification in Library and Information Management.  For more information on becoming a librarian http://alia.org.au/education/careers.html

Library Technician

Librarians technicians focus on operational and technical aspects of library and information. Assist with loan and reference queries at the counter and by phone; assist with internet and online database searches; maintain library resources, records and sytems; enter and edit data into computerised databases; operate photocopier; arrange inter-library loans; develop and present promotional programs, including displays and library tours; undertake copy cataloguing and classification; and, at a senior level, supervise other library or clerical staff; manage a small library or information service or head a section in a large library or information service.