Technical Services Student Assistant
Position Title: Technical Services Student Assistant
Department: Staley Library
Supervisor: Cataloging Associate
Position Summary:
To assist the Technical Services Librarian, the Cataloging Associate and the Acquisitions Associate with a variety of tasks.
Position Responsiblities:
- Filing shelf list cards in Library of congress sequence.
- Processing new library acquisitions (books, videos, CD’s, etc) for shelving, including labeling. (Inaccurately labeled materials are as good as lost.)
- Using the I-Share Online state-wide library system and the international OCLC WorldCat to verify the bibliographic records or if the library owns books or other gift materials.
- Shelving new materials on, and removing older materials from, the New book shelf.
- Sorting and filing publishers’ catalogs as received.
- Delivering library’s outgoing mail and picking up any accumulated mail at the Shilling Hall mail room every afternoon.
- Assisting with special projects.
- Helping with other tasks as assigned.
Position Requirements:
- Be able to work about two hours a day, 5 days a week. Actual hours worked can be flexible as long as it is some time each weekday.
- Willingness to learn new skills, comfort with using different computer databases.
- Some library knowledge, ability to locate library items in stacks.
- Must be accurate. Accuracy is more important than speed.
- Comfort with varied pace.
Date of position description: May 2002.
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