Part-Time Library Assistant, Access Services, Hoboken Public Library
Position Title: Library Assistant, Access Services
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey
Scheduled hours: 25 hours per week. Daytime, evening, and weekend hours are required.
Salary: $17.37/hour
Summary:
The Hoboken Public Library connects people with information, ideas, and opportunities to support lifelong learning, personal growth, and community development. We believe a library’s most important resource in this pursuit is a talented, quality staff, and strive to achieve a more meaningful role in our patron’s daily lives through the development and support of its staff by implementing new and innovative approaches to providing library service.
About the Position:
Reporting to the Access Services Manager, this position performs various paraprofessional and detailed library duties. There are specified assignments; however, the essential duties are to staff the Access Services desk at all library branch locations and provide excellent customer service. This position participates in the opening/closing duties in your scheduled department. This position assists with locating materials for patron use, Interlibrary-Loans, collections maintenance including shelving of library material, examining the collection for the condition of books, and shifting when necessary, this position is entirely in-person. The performance will be reviewed periodically to ensure compliance with policy, procedures, and standards.
Examples of Work:
- Charging and discharging library material; inspecting books, media for damage.
- Providing outstanding customer service.
- Upon patron request, locating books and publications, based on call number; accompanying the patron to the location when feasible.
- Answering patron inquiries about the physical location of library material, including an explanation of searching the online catalog, referring complex questions to the reference librarian on duty
- Performing Inter-library loan duties
- Performing accurate shelving tasks utilizing the Dewey Decimal Classification System.
- Entering new patron information into the Polaris/Leap ILS, verifying name, address, and necessary personal information.
- Pushing book carts with library materials
- Shifting books as needed to make room for new library materials
- Recording usage statistics
- Completing an inventory of the collection.
- Ability to work at all Library Branch locations as needed
- Performing other related duties as assigned.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent customer service skills
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to learn complex computer systems
- Adaptability to a flexible work schedule
- Previous library work experience preferred
- Fluency in a language other than English, especially Spanish is highly desirable.
Please send your resume & cover letter to the attention of the Access Services Manager, Rosary VanIngen, to jobs [at] hoboken.bccls.org
Please note that this position is subject to the NJ First Act, requiring public employees to establish residency in the State of New Jersey. See N.J.S.A. 52:14-7 (L. 2011, Chapter 70) for further information.
This is a Civil Service Job and you must eventually pass and qualify for the applicable Civil Service title.
Applications close: 1/26/2024 11:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time