Job Description
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.
ESSENTIAL 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 Librarian with collection maintenance (i.e. shelving, shelf reading, shifting)
- Assist the Circulation Librarian with fulfilling patron requests regarding interlibrary loan and distance student 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 Librarian and Associate Librarian with special projects as assigned
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 are preferred.
SUPERVISION: The person in this position will supervise no one.
The person in this position will report to the Circulation Librarian and the Association Librarian.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The person in this position will work in the Library.
EQUIPMENT: The person in this position will use the following equipment: basic office and library equipment including computers, printers, scanners, copiers, and microform readers. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Job Tags
Remote job, Shift work,