What are the responsibilities and job description for the Library Assistant - Acquisitions position at Brooklyn Law School?
POSITION : Library Assistant - Acquisitions
REPORTS TO : Acquisitions Librarian
STATUS : Full-time, Non-Exempt, On-Site Work Environment
RANGE : $52,500
Position Summary :
The Library Assistant plays a vital role in library operations, with primary responsibilities in technical services and additional duties in public services. Key tasks include acquisitions, collection processing and maintenance, circulation, shelving, digitization, signage, and interlibrary loan. This position ensures the efficient management of library resources and materials while providing excellent customer service to library patrons. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, customer-focused, and adaptable to a variety of tasks.
Duties & Responsibilities :
Acquisitions & Technical Services
- Manages the acquisitions workflow, including processing purchase requests, ordering, receiving, and processing monographs, serials, and other materials.
- Searches the library catalog, discovery system, holdings manager, and Worldcat / OCLC to check holdings and bibliographic information, to avoid duplication when ordering materials, and to add holdings.
- Receives and examines newly arrived library items.
- Prepares approvals and plans returns.
- Processes invoices for payment.
- Creates MARC records in OCLC and the library catalog to attach orders to.
- Enters bibliographic records and invoice data in library catalog.
- Run and evaluate reports in coordination with the Acquisitions Librarian, the Collection Management Librarian, and the Technology Librarian.
- Maintains and provides collection statistics in coordination with the Acquisitions Librarian, and the Collection Management Librarian.
- Receives, sorts, opens, and distributes mail.
- Prepares and receives bindery shipments.
- Assists with library digital projects.
- Receives and returns interlibrary loan requests.
- Assists with inventory and shelf-reading.
- Assists with digitization efforts, including scanning, saving, PDF conversion, OCR generation, dissemination (uploading, linking).
Public Services
Other duties as assigned
Requirements :
Three years of substantial library or archival experience (from acquisitions and / or technical and / or public services and / or information technologies), preferably in a law or academic library.
Additional Qualifications and Skills :
Physical Requirements :
Pushing, pulling library carts; lifting library books up to 20 pound
Brooklyn law school has an excellent benefits package that includes sick, personal and vacation paid time off, a generous retirement plan, dependent tuition scholarship Pre-K- undergraduate college and additional summer Friday PTO.
Brooklyn Law School values a diverse and vibrant community and affirmatively encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds and life experiences.
Salary : $52,500
