Date Posted: 09/22/2025
Req ID: 45229
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Library
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Position Number: #
Description:
About us:
U of T Mississauga—the second largest campus of Canada’s top-ranked university and the only research university in Ontario’s booming Peel Region—is one of the world’s great catalysts of human potential.
Our employee community hums with the energy of 3,400 faculty, librarians and staff, who power our campus with curiosity, connection and care. We work together to spark life-changing research and innovation, make an indelible mark on the world by building equitable cities and societies, enable healthy lives, create a sustainable future and ignite entrepreneurship. Above all, we prioritize student success, and seek to give our 16,500 students the lift of a lifetime through learning and discovery. We love to open opportunities available nowhere else for our community to achieve their ambitions and make their unique contributions to Canada and the world.
This work all comes together on a spectacularly green campus, alongside the Missinihe-ziibi (Trusting Creek or Credit River), where we seek to honour truth, reciprocity and reconciliation on the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. We’re thrilled to welcome those who want to learn more about us and to be part of what we do.
The University of Toronto Libraries (UTL) system is the largest academic library in Canada and is consistently ranked among the top-10 research libraries in North America. The system consists of 40 libraries located on three University campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough that together provide access to more than 12 million print volumes, millions of electronic resources in various formats, and almost 30,000 linear metres of archival materials. The Libraries’ data centre houses more than 200 servers with a storage capacity of 1.5 petabytes.
The U of T Mississauga Library (UTM Library), located in the award-winning Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre (HMALC), is a leading, world-class Library committed to providing students with an open and collaborative environment – one that embeds rich information and technology resources, integrates expert services into a dynamic and imaginative experience, and inspires and facilitates learning. The UTM Library offers inspiring study and research spaces, a dedicated team of Librarians and Library staff, and a suite of public, instruction and research support services that support faculty, staff and students. The UTM Library also provides community access to its rare and unique materials in the Archives & Special Collections’ Reading Room, including the Syd Bolton Collection of video games and the Abualy Alibhai Aziz Collection of South Asian literature.
Your opportunity:
The UTM Library offers a dynamic and professional environment that fosters a culture built on respect, accountability, teamwork and a shared commitment to customer service. This position will collaborate extensively with various Library units in offering innovative and comprehensive solutions for a variety of Library initiatives. Our core mission is to support the learning, teaching and research needs of all UTM undergraduate and graduate programs.
You will be part of a dynamic collections team, including special collections and archives, within the UTM Library. Under the general supervision of the Collections Management Supervisor, you will be responsible for the original and copy cataloguing of monographs, journals and non-print materials, including software, audiovisual materials, electronic resources and microform; creating and editing metadata in support of the processing of special collections, archival materials, and gifts; analyzing content; and utilizing metadata guidance documentation to describe materials.
Your responsibilities will include:
-Performing original descriptive cataloguing of resources and/or archival materials
-Creating and updating catalogue records
-Conducting authority control of records to ensure discoverability and access to material
-Creating, entering and checking metadata for quality control
-Assessing and determining the condition of donated resource materials
-Overseeing the automated document conversion process
-Identifying and analyzing data discrepancies and taking necessary actions to correct errors
-Probing for information to establish needs
Essential Qualifications:
-Bachelor's Degree or acceptable combination of equivalent experience
-Minimum four (4) years of related library experience, including at least one (1) year using Ex Libris Alma or a comparable Library Management System
-Experience with original and copy cataloguing and metadata creation
-Experience with any of the following metadata standards and schemas: MARC, AACR2, or RDA
-Strong oral and written communication skills
-Superior analytical and problem-solving ability
-Intermediate computer skills with Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Library Management Systems
-High level of accuracy and attention to detail
-Superior interpersonal and customer service skills
-Ability to show evidence of a commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and the promotion of a respectful and collegial learning and working environment
Assets (Nonessential):
-Library Technician Diploma (two year program or 12-month accelerated program)
-Experience working with Ex Libris Alma
-Experience working in a cataloguing unit
-Experience working in an academic library performing cataloguing functions
-Experience working with special collection metadata and schemas for video games, software, and rare books, such as DCRM (B)
To be successful in this role you will be:
-Adaptable
-Meticulous
-Multi-tasker
-Organized
-Problem solver
-Team player
Closing Date: 10/06/2025, 11:59PM ET
Employee Group: USW
Appointment Type: Budget - Continuing
Schedule: Full-Time
Pay Scale Group & Hiring Zone:
USW Pay Band 10 -- $72,119. with an annual step progression to a maximum of $92,226. Pay scale and job class assignment is subject to determination pursuant to the Job Evaluation/Pay Equity Maintenance Protocol.
Job Category: Library Services
Lived Experience Statement
Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged , and their lived experience shall be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.
The incumbent will work fully on-site at the UTM Library, Monday-Friday, with regular daytime hours.
This role is not currently eligible for a hybrid work arrangement, pursuant to University policies and guidelines, including but not limited to the University of Toronto’s Alternative Work Arrangements Guideline.
