What are the responsibilities and job description for the library technician i position at Barstow Community College?
Job Description:
The Library Technician I (Substitute/On-Call) position is a temporary, part-time role that performs various clerical and technical library duties.
Duties:
- Serves as the primary customer service resource in the circulation area, assisting staff, students, and the public with library materials and services.
- Provides information and assistance to library customers, including conducting orientations and training sessions.
- Circulates, stores, and inventories books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials, including those that are overdue.
- Maintains records for lost and overdue books and fines, issuing grade and record holds based on student account balances.
- Processes requests and maintains records for interlibrary loans, including those required for cooperative library system materials, and maintains the course reserve collection.
- Cross-trains other staff members and coordinates, designs, and constructs library displays, bulletin boards, posters, and signs.
- Assists with ordering, receiving, and inspecting library materials, documents receipt, and maintains records of transactions.
- Creates, maintains, updates computerized reserve books listing and other reserve materials for library patrons, instructors, and administrators.
Requirements:
- High School diploma and one year of experience in a library or instructional setting. Additional higher education will substitute for experience.
- Basic procedural knowledge of standard library methods, practices, and terminology, including use of library card catalogs and basic reference sources.
- Working knowledge of modern office practices, procedures, and equipment, including personal computers.
- Knowledge of common office productivity and special library software.
- Sufficient communication skills to serve customers and interact with staff and faculty.
- Sufficient arithmetic skills to arrange materials in numerical sequence and calculate sums needed for handling cash and recording circulation data.
- Sufficient English writing skills to document instructions on library procedures.
Work Environment:
The work is performed indoors where some safety considerations exist from physical labor and handling of medium weight, yet, awkward materials.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
The Barstow Community College District is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to age, ancestry, color, religious creed, disability, marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, Vietnam-era veteran status.
