Desk Staff supports the library mission by checking out library materials, shelving returned books and other resources to their designated location, and helping patrons locate and discover familiar, new, and classic titles.
Approximately 10 hours per week
Job Title: Circulation Desk Assistant
Reports to: Library Director and Assistant Director
Starting Salary: $12.00/hr
Circulation Desk Clerks’ primary responsibilities include:
- Checks out and checks in borrowed materials
- Assists patrons with finding materials, including placing holds and interlibrary loan requests
- Answers patron questions about library information and programs
- Shelves books
- Contributes to special outreach and public relations projects and initiatives
Qualifications:
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office software, library classification systems, current social media, and general office practices and procedures.
- Maintains understanding of standard library principles and practices, patron confidentiality, censorship, and other library ethical issues
- Thorough ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and the general public.
All Library positions require:
- A PA State Criminal Background check, PA Child Abuse History Clearance, and a FBI fingerprint-based criminal history background check.
- Physical aspects of this job may include the ability to climb stairs to get to basement and to occasionally lift, push/pull, hold/carry of items weighing up to thirty-five (35) pounds such as files, books, stacks of paper, and other materials
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus
- Compliance with state standards of professional continuing education
This job description is not, nor is it intended to be, a complete statement of all duties,
functions and responsibilities that comprise this position and may include other
duties as assigned by the Library Director.