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Library Job Descriptions

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• Acquisitions Student Assistant

Acquisitions Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions Include:

  • Checking in materials
  • Assisting in counting and dating recommendation forms
  • Preparing materials to be routed to various library departments
  • Preparing approval returns to vendor
  • Unpacking boxes of books and correlating the box contents with the order
  • Searching for material requests in the stacks
  • Searching order requests and gift books in various bibliographic tools
  • Helping to inventory gift collections
  • Helping prepare duplicate materials and gift items for distribution
  • Stamping materials with Baylor's ownership stamp and inserting theft-detection strips
  • Filing of various materials
  • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal supervision
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Requirements / Preferences:

  • Basic knowledge of Word, Excel and Outlook
  • Accuracy in filing and detail oriented
  • Able to work at least 12 hours per week in 2 hour blocks Monday – Friday
  • Positive communication skills
  • Ability to lift and carry boxes weighing up to 30 pounds
  • Professional demeanor
  • Attention to detail
NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Catalog Maintenance Student Position

Catalog Maintenance Student Position

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions Include:

  • Ability to file in alphabetical order
  • Ability to locate and retrieve books
  • Ability to barcode books correctly
  • Ability to load and maneuver heavy book trucks
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

    • Mental Requirements Necessary to Meet Essential Job Functions:

    • Detail oriented
    • Self-starter
    • Flexible
    • Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing
    • Ability to do the same task repeatedly with interest
    • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal supervision
    • Ability to learn various computer applications and software
    • Ability to interact with different departments in professional and courteous manner
    • Ability to manage several tasks/projects concurrently
    • Ability to understand complex situations and perform some minor troubleshooting
    • Ability and willingness to perform other duties as assigned
• Circulation Desk - Days Student Assistant

Circulation Desk - Days Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Your scheduled desk time will involve the following tasks:

  • Waiting on patrons at the Circulation Desk, including checking out books to patrons and providing directional information.
  • Answering the telephone and routing calls if asked to do so by a supervisor.
  • Processing books, which consists of:
    • Checking in books
    • Sensitizing books
    • Stripping books which have not been magnetically stripped
    • Placing books on the proper shelves in distribution
  • Straightening newspapers
  • Clearing/shelving
  • Relieve Moody Exit Desk staff members for breaks and lunch as necessary
  • Relieve Jones entrance desk staff members as necessary
  • Weekly searches for "claims returned" items
  • Weekly shelf clearing
  • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal direction
  • Students will not be allowed to use the internet for personal use without direct permission from their supervisor
  • Anything else requested of you by a supervisor.
The tasks above are listed in order of descending priority. Patrons who come to the Circulation Desk always have top priority, even above answering the telephone. The only exception to this is in the event of an emergency situation. Your shelf-reading will involve the following:
  • You will set up a schedule convenient to you with a supervisor during your first work week.
  • Shelf-reading hours will bring your total hours to an amount around twelve to fifteen hours.
See the shelf-reading manual for more information. You will be expected to respond to patrons at the desk, to the telephone, and to the processing of books as necessary without prompting from supervisors.
***Students will not be allowed to use the internet for personal use without direct permission from their supervisor.
• Circulation Desk - Night Student Assistant

Circulation Desk - Night Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions include:

  • Assisting patrons at the Circulation Desk, including checking out books and providing directional information
  • Answering the telephone and routing calls if asked to do so by a supervisor
  • Processing books, which consists of:
    • Checking in books
    • Sensitizing books
    • Stripping books which have not been magnetically stripped
    • Placing books on the proper shelves in distribution
  • Straightening newspapers
  • Clearing/shelving
  • Shelf reading - scanning shelves to ensure that all materials are in call number order
  • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal direction
  • Relieve Moody Exit Desk staff members for breaks and after 9:00pm
  • Relieve Jones entrance desk staff members as necessary
  • Searching for lost, missing, and 'claims returned' items
  • Anything else requested of you by a supervisor.
    • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Circulation - Periodicals Student Assistant

Circulation - Periodicals Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions Include:

  • Cataloging the frequency of the use of periodicals
  • Re-shelving the materials
  • Reorganizing and straightening shelves and materials on the shelves
  • Shelving new bound and current materials
  • Assisting patrons with database searches
  • Training is provided for all above functions
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor
NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED
• Circulation Desk - Reserve Student Assistant

Circulation Desk - Reserve Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions Include:

  • Photocopy and scan articles as needed
  • Retrieve requested books from regular stacks
  • Label all reserve books with proper labels
  • Search regular stacks for missing books
  • Assist patrons at Circulation desk with checking in / out books
  • Maintain the reserve shelves by keeping all books in call number order
  • Create files and file items properly
  • Do shelf reading
  • Occasionally fill in at the Exit Desk
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor
    • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Crouch Fine Arts Library Student Assistant

Crouch Fine Arts Library Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

Essential Job Functions Include:

  • Serve library clients
  • Assist with online catalog and database searches
  • Locating and retrieving materials
  • Checking out circulating and reserve materials
  • Answering the telephone and routing calls if asked to do so by a supervisor
  • Assist clients with audio/visual equipment in the Listening / Viewing Center
  • Help prepare and maintain library collections by:
    • Processing new materials
    • Shelve materials regularly
    • Checking shelf order for accuracy
  • Help process orders by searching, filling out check out slips, etc.
  • Other duties as assigned by the supervisor
    • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Dean's Office Student Assistant

Dean's Office Student Assistant

Essential Job Functions Include:
  • Answer and transfer phone calls to the various library departments
  • Greet and assist visitors, faculty, staff and students who arrive in the Deans office suite
  • Assist patrons with lost and found items and refunding money lost in vending machines
  • Check mail and deliver outgoing mail
  • Deliver supplies to various departments
  • Assist with filing, shredding, mail outs, and other office duties
  • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

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• Interlibrary Loan Student Assistant

Interlibrary Loan Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

    Essential Job Functions Include:

    • Search for and retrieve requested items from the library stacks
    • Copy, package, and ship library materials to requesting libraries
    • Check-in, package, and return library materials to lending libraries
    • Retrieve mail from the mailroom and open the mail on an "as needed" basis
    • Open deliveries from couriers daily and route received materials appropriately
    • Assist with ILL statistical reporting as needed
    • Assist with ILS communications by answering the telephone and routing calls as needed
    • Assist with maintaining ILS supplies at operational levels by notifying ILL staff when the supplies run low
    • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal direction
    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

    Requirements / Preferences:

    • Effective communication skills

    • Attention to detail

    • Accurate keyboarding

    • Excellent organizational skills

    • Professional demeanor

    • General computing knowledge including Windows and web browsing

    • Basic knowledge of Word and Outlook

    • Experience with digital reproduction and scanners is helpful

      • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Monographic Stacks Student Assistant

Monographic Stacks Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

    Essential Job Functions Include:

    • Stacks area is responsible for the books that are on the shelves for public use
    • Assisting patrons to ensure they find the materials they need or properly directing them to other resources to find them (ie: reference desk)
    • Categorizing and shelving books that have been returned
    • Shelf reading – scanning shelves to ensure all books are in call number order
    • Create and revise location labels for stacks area as needed
    • Shifting of library materials in different stacks areas
    • Perform any other duties as assigned by the supervisor
      • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Preservation - Marking Student Assistant

Preservation - Marking Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED
    Essential Job Functions Include:
    • Prints, cuts and affixes call number labels
    • Remove labels and protectors on books that need to be relabeled
    • Conducts spot checks of books
    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

    Requirements / Prerequisites

    • Attention to detail with high degree of accuracy
    • Some basic computing skills
    • Ability to lift boxes weighing up to 50 lbs and push loaded book trucks
      • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Preservation - Monographic Binding Student Assistant

Preservation - Monographic Binding Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED
    Essential Job Functions Include:
    • Prepares for bindery pick up by packing and labeling boxes
    • Unpacks and checks books for errors which have returned from bindery
    • Prints, cuts and affixes call number labels
    • Conducts spot checks of books
    • Delivers newly processed books to designated areas
    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor

    Requirements / Prerequisites

    • Attention to detail with high degree of accuracy
    • Some basic computing skills
    • Ability to lift boxes weighing up to 50 lbs and push loaded book trucks
      • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Preservation - Periodical Binding Student Assistant

Preservation - Periodical Binding Student Assistant

NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED
    Essential Job Functions Include:
    • Prepares for bindery pick up by packing and labeling boxes<
    • Unpacks and checks books for errors which have been returned from bindery
    • Completes multi-bind processing
    • Stamps, magnetizes and delivers newly processed materials to designated areas
    • Searches for indexes and missing issues
    • Desensitizes and packs issues for Modern Foreign Languages
    • Other duties as assigned by supervisor
    Requirements / Prerequisites
    • Attention to detail with high degree of accuracy
    • Some basic computing skills
    • Ability to lift boxes weighing up to 50 lbs and push loaded book trucks
        • NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED

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• Reference Student Assistant

Reference Student Assistant

    NO STUDY TIME ALLOWED
      Essential Job Functions for the reference desk students include:
      • Assisting patrons to ensure they find what they need
      • Use and teach patrons to us the various electronic databases and paper resources (such as indexes, specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries) designed for aiding research in the humanities and social sciences
      • Shelve books
      • Check order of shelved books for accuracy
      • Shift collections
      • Assist patrons with microfilm machines
      • Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor
      Essential Job Functions for the office students include:
      • All duties listed above as well as:
      • Ability to work independently as well as with others with minimal direction
      • Provide clerical assistance to librarians in Reference department
      • Photocopying
      • Put together packets for bibliographic instruction
      • Check in microfilm
      • Fill out book orders
      • Other duties as assigned by supervisor