Introduction

Are you passionate about managing and disseminating knowledge? Join our Archives & Library team to manage library services, support archival activities and projects, and contribute to evolving initiatives that preserve and share scientific information. Bring your enthusiasm and adaptability to shape the future of knowledge at CERN! Take part!

CERN’s mission is the advancement of knowledge, and the Archives & Library are the key hub for managing access to the knowledge needed to fulfil the mission of the Laboratory and to preserve it for future generations. The physical and fast-growing online archives & library both contribute to this endeavor.

The CERN Scientific Information Service operates, among other sections, the CERN Archives & Library. The first takes care of preserving and making accessible the Organization’s memory. The second ensures access to the scientific documents researchers need to carry out their activities by managing a library and a bookshop and their associated services. The mission of the CERN Scientific Information Service is to efficiently manage, preserve and disseminate scientific information to make it openly accessible and reusable to CERN and the worldwide high-energy physics community.

Find here some short videos presenting the services:

Library: https://videos.cern.ch/record/2697370

Archives: https://videos.cern.ch/record/2268196

Functions

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Library services: Collaboratively perform library operations, including acquiring books, managing subscriptions, processing interlibrary loans, handling user inquiries, and participating in desk shifts to ensure excellent service delivery; curate and ingest metadata into catalogues and repositories;
• Bookshop management: Collaboratively perform bookshop tasks, including acquisitions and customer support;
• Archival services: Physically and intellectually process, catalogue, and digitize collections, and assist researchers and Departmental Records Officers with archival resources;
• Training: Mentor apprentices and interns in library and archival practices;
• Outreach: Create content and support communication and outreach activities for the Archives & Library;
• Support other activities of the service according to demands and projects.