Daylight Sithole

Experience

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  City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

  Nov 2013 - now

  Assist with executing of policy and systems in professional support. Assist with executing all other City of Tshwane policies and procedures. Handling relevant administrative tasks for the subsections and Oversee: Creation of requisitions for library material on the SAP and E-Procurement system; Creation of orders on the Symphony system; Facilitation of payment of invoices on the SAP system; Receipt of orders on the Symphony system; Budget allocation to Ordering, Binding and Newspaper and Magazine acquisitions. Supervision of Book Selection by overseeing selection and review of library material, preparation for Selection meetings and keeping up to date with new publications and liaising with service points and vendors. Supervision of Ordering section by maintaining an effective and efficient workflow regarding ordering of material, delivery thereof and payment of invoices. Supervision of Binding by management of efficient workflow. Supervision of Acquisition of newspapers and magazines by management of efficient workflow. Creation of vendor cycle once a year. Liaise with service points regarding special requests and stock building. Liaise with suppliers regarding administrative problems, financial matters, special requests and stock building. Liaise with management regarding budgetary concerns, stock building and administrative tasks. Liaise with Buyers and Creditors regarding orders and payment of orders. Show less Assist with executing of policy and systems; Assist with executing all other CoT policies and procedures; Assist with technical support and budget administration; Creation of requisition on the SAP system; Facilitate payment of invoices on the SAP system; Administrate budget allocated to newspapers and magazines; Subscription to and renewal of newspapers and magazines; Compile needs assessments at service points regarding newspapers and magazines; creating new serial codes for newspaper and magazines, re-subscribing to existing orders and updating all predictions annually; receive, sort, mark of and dispatch all magazines to service points; keep record of subscriptions to be able to claim undelivered copies from the agent; Cancelling of subscriptions at the agent; Liaising with service points and management regarding special requests; Preparation and receipt of library material to and from binders; Collection maintenance and development; Compiling of statistics for libraries on a monthly basis; Select, evaluate and review material on approval; Host selection meetings; Provide reader guidance to service points and the public and liaise with them regarding special requests; staying informed on publications and development in the publication. Show less To compile and maintain the online library catalogue for Tshwane Community Library and Information services; Assist with the executing of policy and systems; Perform original descriptive and subject cataloguing of fiction books; perform copy cataloguing from OCLC computerised network for fiction; Quality control and upgrading of bibliographic data according to international standards; and Quality control and upgrading of authority files according to international standard.Create a unique bibliographic record for each title of fiction in the library collection according to the latest edition of the Anglo American Cataloguing Rule II (AACRII) and MARC2 format for the effective retrieval of information by the end user. Conduct complex searching and researching in English, several foreign languages to establish appropriate form of entries, added entries and place names. Create and assign the necessary subject headings according to the (Library of Congress Subject Headings) LCSH or specially designed thesaurus. Show less

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