Children's Programs and Public Service Assistant

Requisition ID: 23971 Department: Ottawa Public Library Service: Branch Operations Employment Type: 1 Permanent Part Time Position Work Hours: 24 hours per week Affiliation: CUPE 503 - Library/Part Time - Public Service Job Salary Information: $35.060 - $41.020 per hour (2026 rates of pay) Location: Greenboro Branch, 363 Lorry Greenberg Drive City: Ottawa, ON Job Category: Ottawa Public Library **Application Close: 27/11/2026** **JOB SUMMARY** --------------- Ottawa Public Library (OPL) provides accessible, innovative library and information services throughout the City of Ottawa, that meet the unique needs of diverse communities, delivered through a range of vehicles and reflecting a citizen-centred approach. The Public Service units are responsible for the customer-centric public library activities, programs and services offered by the Library's 33 branches, mobile and digital services, to meet the needs in their catchment area. You provide information, reference and readers advisory services; develop, implement and conduct children’s programs; provide circulation and page services in the Library and/or the community and/or mini-libraries, nursing homes and other locations; and perform routine collection maintenance duties. You may be the senior person in charge or exercise responsibility for the day-to-day operation of the library branch. Work is performed within the context of the policies and framework of the Library corporate culture as embodied in the Mission Statement, Core Values, Customer Experience Guidelines and the Canadian Federation of Library Association position statements on Intellectual Freedom and Diversity and Inclusion, with particular emphasis on providing customer service excellence. **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE** ---------------------------- Completion of 2-year college diploma in Library and Information Technician, Early Childhood Education, or related field. Minimum of 1 year of related experience working with children’s programs. **KNOWLEDGE** ------------- * Adult/children’s literature in a variety of formats, readers’ advisory services, trends in reading, literacy and ESL collections and adult programming. * Trends and techniques for developing effective library programming for children. * Reference resources in print, microform and electronic formats and of current developments in reference services. * Electronic database and other bibliographic searching techniques. * Principles of collection development and maintenance. * Methods and techniques for sorting and shelving library materials according to alphabetical, Dewey Decimal or other prescribed sequence and procedures. * Library circulation procedures and practices. * Methods and techniques of responding to inquiries and resolving patron complaints. * Desktop applications, intranet and internet and keyboarding procedures, to the extent where it may be required to demonstrate such usage to colleagues or library patrons. * General knowledge o