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Position Description

Circulation Department


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Circulation Desk Assistant

Exit Control

Shelver

Overdue - Reserve Monitor

Bindery Specialist


 

Job Title:

Circulation Desk Assistant

Salary:

$7.15 per hour

Supervisor:

John E. Butcher

Hours per week:

8

Job description:

Primary Tasks

Adhere to all library policies and procedures. Check in/out material from the circulating and reserve collection including study rooms, newspapers, laser disc, software and material w/software. Renew material for patrons over the phone and in person provided the materials are not overdue. Whenever there is a problem with a patron (i.e., lost ID, ID not in system, patron blocked) find Mr. Butcher or send them over to the Reference Desk. Transfer telephone calls to library staff’s voice mail or take a message if asked. Collect fines for overdue material. Shelve material in the pre-shelving area after checking it in. Shelf read the reserve collections (i.e., books, videos and photocopies). Show up for work at least 5 minutes before your shift or 10 minutes if opening the library. Monitor the security system and respond to the alarm.

Secondary Tasks

Cheerfully accept any tasks assigned by any library staff member. When all assigned tasks are completed, ask if anyone has something that needs to be done.

Qualifications:

Willingness to work an established schedule including Dolphy Day and finals week. Ability to maintain your focus on the task(s) assigned with minimal supervision and less than an 8% error rate. Skills necessary to do repetitive work on a daily basis. Previous library experience not required but helpful.

 


Job Title:

Exit Control

Salary:

$7.15 per hour

Supervisor:

John E. Butcher

Hours per week:

Two four hour shifts per week

Sunday (12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. or 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)

Monday - Thursday (6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.)

Job description:

Primary Tasks

Adhere to all library policies and procedures. Monitor the security system and respond to the alarm. Maintain an alert and vigilant posture to be proactive in observing patrons as they enter and leave the library. Assist the Circulation Student Assistant with patrons and check in of material. Transfer telephone calls to library staff’s voice mail or take a message if asked. Show up for work at least 5 minutes before your shift.

Secondary Tasks

Cheerfully accept any tasks assigned by any library staff member. When all assigned tasks are completed, ask if anyone has something that needs to be done.

Qualifications:

Willingness to work an established schedule including Dolphy Day and finals week. Must be willing to work during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ability to maintain your focus on the task(s) assigned with minimal supervision and less than an 8% error rate. Skills necessary to do repetitive work on a daily basis. Previous library experience not required but helpful.

 


 

Job Title:

Shelver

Salary:

$7.15 per hour

Supervisor:

John E. Butcher

Hours per week:

8

Job description:

Primary Tasks

Adhere to all library policies and procedures. Recheck material from the pre-shelving area. Sensitize material, put in call number order on a book truck and shelve material. While in the stacks, shelve material left on the yellow shelves and in the study carrels. Search for material which patrons can not find. Shelf read your section by taking off a shelf of books, cleaning the shelf and then placing the books in call number order on the shelf. While in the stacks, pull and bring to the Circulation Desk all material that is in need of repair (i.e., spine or cover coming off, part of the book is coming out of the book, missing the cover, etc.). Report for shift on time and ready to work.

Secondary Tasks

Cheerfully accept any tasks assigned by any library staff member. When all assigned tasks are completed, ask if anyone has something that needs to be done.

Qualifications:

Willingness to work an established schedule including Dolphy Day and finals week. Must be willing to work during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ability to maintain your focus on the task(s) assigned with minimal supervision and less than an 8% error rate. Skills necessary to do repetitive work on a daily basis. Previous library experience not required but helpful.


 

Job Title:

Overdue - Reserve Monitor

Salary:

$7.15 per hour

Supervisor:

John E. Butcher

Hours per week:

10+ hours per week

Monday - Friday (9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.)

Job description:

Primary Tasks

Adhere to all library policies and procedures. Create and check all 2nd overdue items for prices. Search book finder for items without prices: if item not found multiply pages times 27 cents. Add prices to items and run overdue notices. E-mail notices, print copy and print those without E-mail, print copy also.

All materials dropped off for reserve must have a complete bibliographic record and a reserve form. Scan in chapter, notes or articles left by faculty for reserve. Create a bibliographic record for the scanned material then link it to the bibliographic record. Finally create or update the course then add the item to it.

Secondary Tasks

Cheerfully accept any tasks assigned by any library staff member. When all assigned tasks are completed, ask if anyone has something that needs to be done.

Qualifications:

Willingness to work an established schedule including Dolphy Day and finals week. Must be willing to work during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ability to maintain your focus on the task(s) assigned with minimal supervision and less than an 8% error rate. Skills necessary to do repetitive work on a daily basis. Previous library experience not required but helpful.


 

Job Title:

Bindery Specialist

Salary:

$7.15 per hour

Supervisor:

John E. Butcher

Hours per week:

10+ hours per week

Monday - Friday (2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

Job description:

Primary Tasks

Adhere to all library policies and procedures. Select periodicals for binding from the current periodicals with a green shelf label. Check to see if there is a full volume, or complete month, quarter, semi-annual issues for binding. If missing issues check the computer to see what the status is. Select at least 40 journals each time. We send shipments out twice a month, 5th and 20th, except in July and December.

Fill out bindery slip with volume, months, number and year, and date of shipment. Update computer to reflect what was sent with status of to bindery. Fill up and stack boxes.

Upon receipt of bound journals, remove from boxes and put on cart. Count and see if total matches invoice. Give reference materials to Patty Mason in cataloging. Each bound journal is stamped with "library use only", date stamped, stamped top & bottom with "Noreen Reale Falcone Library", has a "periodical" label put on the spine and has a barcode put on the inside top back cover. Update the computer showing that the journal is bound and create an item record.

Secondary Tasks

Cheerfully accept any tasks assigned by any library staff member. When all assigned tasks are completed, ask if anyone has something that needs to be done.

Qualifications:

Willingness to work an established schedule including Dolphy Day and finals week. Must be willing to work during the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ability to maintain your focus on the task(s) assigned with minimal supervision and less than an 8% error rate. Skills necessary to do repetitive work on a daily basis. Previous library experience not required but helpful.

Author: Robert Cook
last revised: December 13, 2006

 

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