Specialized Librarian - youth

The Municipality of the Ville de Prilly wishes to guarantee a qualitative and harmonious urban development of the commune and the region, thereby ensuring a high level of services for the entire population.

The Culture & Intégration service of the Ville de Prilly is responsible for proposing and developing a cultural policy representative of the population's diversity with the aim of enabling the creation of links, developing a sense of belonging, and reducing socio-cultural disparities. The diversity of the public and broad participation in cultural life represent fundamental challenges for cohesion within society.

A place of living and meeting, the Bibliothèque municipale contributes to the cultural dynamism of the commune. It welcomes a diverse public, offers varied documentary resources, and develops actions promoting reading, learning, and social links.

In the context of maternity leave, the bibliothèque municipale, attached to the Culture & Intégration service of the Ville de Prilly, is looking for its future specialized librarian (youth) at 75% on a contract with a maximum duration of 6 months.

Specialized Librarian - youth at 75% (6 months)

Your main missions:

• Welcome, advise, and inform users, on-site and remotely, and support them in their information searches as well as in the use of resources and equipment made available to them
• Present the Bibliothèque, its functioning, and its service offering to the public
• Ensure the lending service at the various counters, according to the established schedule
• Participate in the development and organization of a range of cultural animations intended for all audiences
• Plan and ensure group visits, notably from classes and nurseries
• Collaborate in actions to promote the resources and services of the Bibliothèque
• Manage youth collections and ensure their development in accordance with the documentary policy
• Select documentary resources intended for the target audience and manage the purchase of new arrivals
• Catalogue and index documentary resources according to bibliographic description standards and current signaling procedures
• Evaluate the content and physical state of the collections, and apply weeding and conservation measures
• Ensure documentary monitoring in your field of competence in order to identify evolutions to follow and respond to the needs of the target audience.
• Participate in the general functioning of the Bibliothèque as well as in the administrative tasks necessary for the general functioning of the services

Your profile:

• HES training as a Specialist in information sciences or a title deemed equivalent
• Confirmed experience in the field of public reading
• Good mastery of electronic resources and professional IT tools
• Very good mastery of French, both spoken and written
• Sense of welcome, service, and listening, as well as interpersonal ease
• Rigor and precision
• Excellent organization and analytical spirit
• Autonomy and flexibility

Start of employment: Beginning of December

Application deadline: 31 October 2026

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