Summer library Assistant, Multi-Department, Hampton, NH
Posted April 27, 2023
A successful candidate will have:
- High school diploma or GED, minimum
- $13/hour
- Start Monday, June 12th, End Friday August 18th
- Outstanding customer service skills
- A high degree of familiarity with computers
- No sick or vacation benefits
- Ability to work with minimal supervision
- Necessary to work collegially with others,
- Broad knowledge of fiction genres and authors
- Library experience required
Resumes and letters of interest to both Amanda Reynolds Cooper
at the Library and in other Town Departments [email protected]
A Summer Library Assistant will perform any of the following general and specialized desk duties when necessary and other duties as requested. A standard background check will be required.
General Desk Duties
- Follow Lane Memorial Library General and Personnel policies
- Assist with opening and closing building
- Empty book drop
- Greet library users
- Answer telephone and route calls to individual staff members
- Maintain circulation records including check-outs and check-ins
- Update and process fees
- Collect payment for a variety of library services and Friends of the Library events
- Place and retrieve reserves
- Maintain collection of library materials, shelving returned items in their proper places
- Perform circulation desk duties alone as needed
- Register new patrons
- Support and communicate library policies and procedures to library users
- Assist library users with use of the PAC, photocopier, and computer terminals
- Accept inter-library loan requests and new materials requests
- Maintain circulation desk areas to provide a convenient and safe work area
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Keep abreast of any changes and updated information
Specialized Duties - Manage and publicize programming, including story times, performances, and special events
- Assist with management of annual Summer Reading Program
- Assist with the presentation of regular season, holiday, or special event displays in the Children’s Room (including holiday book
carts) - Process new items for circulation (books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, puppets, etc.)
- Crafts: planning, coordinating, producing
- Plan/change announcements for outside sign
- Assist patrons with research and reference questions in the Children’s area
- Maintain appearance and organization of the library, including tidying furniture, toys, puppets, puzzles, etc.
Physical requirements:
- Stand and work at a service desk for up to 4 hours per day
- Reach up to high shelves (possibly using a stool) or down to lowest shelves (possibly kneeling)
- Lift and sort up to 30 pounds of library materials
- Maneuver a full book cart through the library stacks
- Read a computer screen at arm’s length
- Listen and respond clearly to inquiries from patrons in the library as well as on the telephone
- Work outdoors; often in high heat and perform physically strenuous activities
How to Apply:
Resumes and letters of interest to both Amanda Reynolds Cooper
at the Library and in other Town Departments [email protected]