LIBRARY TECHNICIAN I (SUBSTITUTE/ONCALL)

About the role

The position involves performing recurring clerical and technical library duties, providing information and assistance to library customers, assisting faculty, staff, students, and other visitors, and maintaining a clean and orderly environment.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary customer service resource in the circulation area, to staff, students, and the public.
• Affords assistance to faculty, staff, students, and other visitors with use of the library.
• Assists them to find materials and use resource guides.
• Conducts "walk-and-talk" orientations for students and staff in areas such as but not limited to, general use of the library, periodical research, bibliographic search, Internet search, or use of electronic media.
• Demonstrates the use of card catalogs and performs cataloging.
• Performs basic reference services.
• Shelves new and returned materials (books, media, or periodicals) in the absence of student employees and assures data entry into the library system.
• Mends and repairs book and non-book materials.
• Disposes of damaged or outdated materials according to established procedures.
• Maintains a clean and orderly environment.
• Circulates, stores, and inventories books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials including those that are overdue.
• Maintains records for lost and overdue books and fines, issuing grade and record holds based on student account balances.
• Processes a full range of library materials within established parameters.
• Processes requests and maintains records for interlibrary loans including those required for cooperative library system materials, and maintaining the course reserve collection.
• Maintains current procedures manuals for the position.
• Cross-trains other staff members.
• Creates, maintains, updates computerized reserve books listing and other reserve materials for library patrons, instructors, and administrators.
• Maintains the periodical section.
• Recommends periodicals for purchase and inclusion.
• Performs routine clerical and record keeping duties.
• Provides guidance and training to student employees.
• Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.

Requirements

• A High School diploma and one year of experience in a library or instructional setting.
• Additional higher education will substitute for experience.