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Clerk, Youth Services, Cambridge Public Library, Cambridge, MA

Posted April 16, 2018

For more information, go to http://www.cambridgema.gov/.

18 hours per week.

Initial hours are: Mondays, 1:00pm-7:00pm with a 30-minute lunch, Wednesdays, 2:00pm-7:00pm, and Fridays, 8:30am-5:00pm with an hour for lunch.

Every third week the position works Saturday 8:30am-5pm instead of Friday that week.

Hours are assigned and subject to change in order to meet the needs of the department and the Library.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Using basic library techniques and skills under the general supervision of the professional staff, provides outstanding customer service, shelves and organizes materials, performs circulation, reader’s advisory and other duties relating to the provision of library service to children, teens, caregivers, and teachers. Duties include but are not limited to the following:

  • Maintains orderliness and neatness in the department; shelves materials and reads shelves as necessary
  • Delivers exceptional and engaging customer service to the public
  • Assists borrowers in locating books and materials, referring them if necessary to full time staff members
  • Performs functions related to circulation control, including issuing new library cards, placing holds, check-ins, checkouts, inquiries, renewal and data entry
  • Operates various equipment in the presentation of library programs
  • May assist in the planning and implementation of programs for adults and children
  • Any other duties required by the Manager of Youth Services for the good of the department and the library