Public Services (part time), Baker Library Historical Collections at Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
Posted May 19, 2016
Baker Library Historical Collections
15 hours per week
Available immediately
Salary $15.00/hour
Specific Duties:
Excellent opportunity to assist with and learn more about the daily public services operations and general support of a special collections department. Locates, retrieves and re-shelves collection materials from secure stacks. Processes collection duplication requests. Supports public services team projects. Performs routine clerical duties and other duties as assigned.
May occasionally staff the reading room reference desk for short periods of time. May assist with collection based projects, including basic re-housing and inventorying projects and basic collection cataloging work.
Available immediately, this is a 15 hour per week, year round position. Hours must be completed between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Preference will be given to undergraduate and graduate students.
Requirements:
Customer service and/or library experience strongly preferred. Excellent communication and organizational skills are required. Attention to detail necessary. Ability to multi-task and to complete tasks in a timely manner. Sensitivity to proper care and handling of special collections materials required.
Overview:
Baker Library Historical Collections holds one of the preeminent collections of historical materials on business and economic history and philosophy in the world. Major collections are the Business Manuscripts Collection, which includes approximately 1,400 collections dating from the fifteenth century to the current day; the Kress Collection of Business and Economics, rare books, broadsides and pamphlets from the fifteenth century to 1850; and the extensive holdings of the Harvard Business School Archives.
Baker Library Historical Collections provides access to these materials in the de Gaspé Beaubien Reading Room in Baker Library | Bloomberg Center.
Send letter of interest and resume to:
Melissa Murphy
Baker Library Historical Collections
Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
[email protected]
No phone calls please