Library Assistant - Camilla

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Status & Hours:  Part-time, 19 hrs/week
Reports to:          Camilla Branch Manager
Salary/Wage:       $9/hr
Shift:                    Varies (mornings, afternoons and rotating Saturdays)

Position Description
Provides front-line services to patrons in the library, including materials circulation, reader’s advisory, technology assistance, and other routine, supportive duties. This position requires a positive customer service demeanor, dependability, tact, knowledge of library policies and procedures, the ability to work as part of a team, and a willingness to collaborate with library programming. 

Typical Duties & Responsibilities

• Performs routine circulation duties, including checking in, checking out and renewing items, collecting fines and fees, and creating patron accounts
• Assists patrons with technology use, including computers, copier, scanner and fax
• Sorts, shelves and searches for library materials accurately and efficiently
• Regularly reviews shelves for accuracy of order, reshelving materials as needed
• Ensures a pleasant library experience by keeping shelves and public areas in order and enforcing library patron policies
• Collaborate with the creation of displays to promote library events and materials
• Collaborate with library programming
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Expectations

• Displays courtesy and respect to provide helpful customer service
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Demonstrates good judgment, accuracy, orderliness, and reliability
• Ability to sort and file alphabetically and numerically
• Knowledge of computers, current information technologies, social networking and internet use

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED
• Physical condition commensurate with the demands of the position, including but not limited to the ability to stand for long periods, to reach, bend, and lift objects such as books, book carts and supplies