A mixed bag - Library Assistant Glasgow Life Employee Review

3.0
26 May 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent front line co-workers from a range of ages and backgrounds, great line manager, dealing with a wide range of people in a public facing role (very personally rewarding), provides a great range of services (from schools outreach and baby oriented play & song to fiction reading groups & community meetings, authors talks etc) to the people of Glasgow.

Cons

Remote, distant upper management, random bureaucracy and inefficiency/waste related to that, flexible working (ok up to a point) but also expected to move libraries to cover shifts at short notice, overall poor pay. Occasionally having to deal with a range of antisocial behaviour - from minor to major (i.e violence against staff). There is also a tendency to "managerialize" good library workers by offering progression which seems to seek to turn said workers into, essentially, data and admin processors - to little good effect.

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4.0
17 Mar 2026
Anonymous temporary employee
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of good people, good office location, great work / life balance, fair treatment of staff, great projects to work on

Cons

can be slow and a bit bureaucratic but way better than other similar organisations, hard to get a permanent job because they normally promote from within.

3.0
19 Feb 2026
Recommend
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Pros

was good part time job as student

Cons

understaffed the best amount of times i have been left as 1 person and had to shut branch

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