Job Description
JOB TYPE: Part-time
JOB SUMMARY:
The Library Assistant’s main purpose is to support the mission of the Library by connecting patrons with resources they need and to help maintain the Library’s collections.
JOB FUNCTIONS:
The employee in this position will have the following essential job functions
- Welcome patrons to the library through the security checkpoint
- Enforce library security (i.e. scanning patron’s identification cards, monitoring the Library’s remote access entry points, ensuring building is vacated and locked upon closing)
- Educate faculty and students on how to find and use the library's print and online resources for research and other purposes
- Providing information literacy and technology literacy assistance
- Assist patrons with checking items in and out
- Answer and direct phone inquiries
- Direct patrons around the library and to other venues and locations on campus
- Assist the Circulation Coordinator with collection maintenance (i.e shelving, shelf reading, shifting)
- Assist the Interlibrary Loan and Distance Education Coordinator with fulfilling patron requests
- Assist in the preparation of new items added to the library collections
- Assist in the maintenance of patron accounts, including the reception and recording of fines
- Aid the Circulation Coordinator, Interlibrary Loan and Distance Student Services Coordinator, and Associate Librarian with special projects as assigned
- Promote library collection through traditional and social media outlets
Performs other duties as may be assigned by supervisor.
EDUCATION:
The person in this position does not need any particular formal education.
EXPERIENCE:
The person in this position is not required to have experience working in a library. However, computer and customer service relations experience is preferred.
Job Tags
Part time, Remote job, Shift work,