Student - Media Services at Howard Tilton Library

Media Services at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is hiring a student employee for the upcoming Fall & Spring semesters. Federal Work Study is preferred for this position.

About Us

Media Services fosters equitable opportunities for interdisciplinary discovery, innovative scholarship, and skill development through creative play with multimedia collections and media tools. This position will help student employees demonstrate and cultivate the career readiness competencies in accordance with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

Schedule

Student Library Workers in Media Services typically work 8-11 hours per week, with hours based on availability. We’re looking for students with general availability:

• Monday through Friday, daytime to evening hours (8:30am to 6:00pm)
• Sundays (12:00pm to 6:00pm)

Fill-in hours may also occur during the daytime, evening shifts (closing at 6pm), or weekend shifts (Sundays between 12pm-6pm).

Regular semester hours are Monday–Friday 8:30am–6:00pm and Sunday 12:00pm–6:00pm.

Pay

Starting salary: $12.00/hour, with a $1 increase per year (2 semesters) upon returning.

Responsibilities

• Customer service: Checking out books and media materials to patrons, assisting patrons in locating microforms and newspapers, retrieving music and media materials from the closed stacks, and answering directional or technology questions (e.g., “How many printers are there in the library?” or “How do I use the book scanner?”).
• Basic research skills: Answering research questions (e.g., “I’m looking for books about Britney Spears, can you help me?”, “Do you have any musical scores for piano composed by Florence Price?”, or “If I’m trying to find newspaper articles from the Times Picayune written about Entergy New Orleans, where is the best place to look?”).
• Technical skills: Assisting patrons with creative technology (e.g., GoPro cameras, microphones, and podcasting equipment), microform readers, and media listening/viewing equipment. Troubleshooting technical issues as they arise.
• Clerical: Shifting materials to make room for new items, filing and labeling materials, and re-shelving microform and media materials as needed.

Qualifications

We’re looking for students who are outgoing, thrive on public interactions, and enjoy showing off the library’s resources.

Visit our website to learn more about our department: https://library.tulane.edu/media.