Library Assistant

Job Description

The Library Assistant position supports Stetson University by providing a friendly library user experience and keeping our resources neat and up to date. Serving as a member of the Law Library Team, the Library Assistant will work regular hours at the circulation, maintain library resources, assist with campus mail, and assist with the processing of library materials. In alignment with Stetson's Strategic Priorities, the Library Assistant will promote a people-centered, high-performing and relationship-rich culture of inclusive excellence.

Required Skills

Employment duties include, but are not limited to:

• Check-in, file, process, shelve, and as necessary, claim law library materials

• Work regularly scheduled hours at the circulation desk

• Library collection and stacks maintenance, including shelf-reading

• Assist in receiving, sorting, and processing incoming and outgoing campus mail

• Maintenance of library equipment including printers, copiers, and microform reader/printers

• Interlibrary loans

• Electronic records maintenance

• Study room reservations

• Assist with managing up-to-date patron records

• Assist in maintenance and revision of policy and procedure manuals

• Provides back-up when needed for the library administration desk including ordering library supplies and materials, returning and routing items, maintaining received items log, printing documents for library director, scheduling department calendar and printing calendars and other library administration desk duties

• Maintains a collaborative work environment and works well with others

• Other duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: The knowledge, skills, and abilities for this role include:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Familiarity with use of online library databases preferred
• Familiarity with use of office equipment including shredder, copier, printer, scanner, and microform reader/printers preferred
• Familiarity with WMS ILS or other ILS preferred
• Familiarity with use of an automated postage meter machine
• Support the University's Mission and Values in their role.Required Experience

Employment duties include, but are not limited to:

• Check-in, file, process, shelve, and as necessary, claim law library materials

• Work regularly scheduled hours at the circulation desk

• Library collection and stacks maintenance, including shelf-reading

• Assist in receiving, sorting, and processing incoming and outgoing campus mail

• Maintenance of library equipment including printers, copiers, and microform reader/printers

• Interlibrary loans

• Electronic records maintenance

• Study room reservations

• Assist with managing up-to-date patron records

• Assist in maintenance and revision of policy and procedure manuals

• Provides back-up when needed for the library administration desk including ordering library supplies and materials, returning and routing items, maintaining received items log, printing documents for library director, scheduling department calendar and printing calendars and other library administration desk duties

• Maintains a collaborative work environment and works well with others

• Other duties as assigned

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: The knowledge, skills, and abilities for this role include:

• MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• Familiarity with use of online library databases preferred
• Familiarity with use of office equipment including shredder, copier, printer, scanner, and microform reader/printers preferred
• Familiarity with WMS ILS or other ILS preferred
• Familiarity with use of an automated postage meter machine
• Support the University's Mission and Values in their role.

Stetson University is an Equal Opportunity Employer that affirms cultural diversity and inclusion as a core value of academic excellence at Stetson University. We are committed to achieving equal access in education, employment, and participation through the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds, and to meaningful academic and intellectual transformation in curriculum, research and service. We are dedicated to actions and policies that foster a community in which individuals with various identities, cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints work together to create opportunities for engagement through rewarding and fulfilling careers and personal experiences in a culturally and racially diverse society and a globalized world. We strongly encourage members of historically under-represented and economically disadvantaged groups and women to apply for employment. Stetson University is an EEO, ADA, ADEA, and GINA employer.