Job Title: Evening Services Librarian
Department: Law Library
FLSA Status: Exempt
Days and Hours: 37.5 hours per week.
Desired Hours: 2:30 P.M – 10:30 P.M. Tuesday – Thursday; 7:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. Friday; 10:00A.M – 6:00 P.M. Saturday
Salary: DOE
Deadline per application: Open until filled
Summary: Oversee the operation of all library public service functions, including the supervision of student workers during evening and weekend hours. Monitor shelves and stacks maintenance, loose-leaf filing, and filing of microforms. Responsible for managing interlibrary loans, course reserves and exam database. Conduct evening reference.
Essential Functions:
- Participate in selection, training and supervision of part-time assistants assigned to circulation and collection maintenance; ensure adequate staffing and coverage; monitor substitute requests; monitor part-time assistants and patron interaction. Assign routine tasks such as photocopying, filing, re-shelving and shelf-reading to part- time student assistants; supervise their work to ensure accuracy.
- Provide direct reference assistance to patrons in person and on the phone answering both informational and more complex reference questions. Some teaching responsibilities are involved in this position. Cover some reference desk hours.
- Participate in collection development.
- Enforce library policies. Handle all problems that arise with patrons or our facility during evening and weekend hours. Open and close library.
- Handle interlibrary loan requests using OCLC First Search system to search for materials in other libraries. Fulfill requests from other libraries to borrow materials from our collection.
- Monitor and direct the physical maintenance of the law library’s stacks collection, open reserve area, and storage facility; create and monitor methods for re-shelving and shelf-reading the collection; conduct and oversee missing book searches and report final status to Head of Circulation for resolution; organize special projects such as book shifts.
- Assign loose-leaf filing to student workers. Solve filing problems and report missing pages to Serials Assistant for claiming.
- Process course reserve materials. Consult directly with faculty regarding their course reserve needs to ensure accuracy, completeness and retention period; manage addition, retention and withdrawal of course reserve materials. Replace missing course reserve materials.
- Provide students with access to copies of old final exams by making copies of the exams available online and in hard copy.
- Supervise filing and maintenance of microforms; work with the Documents / Microforms Librarian in space planning and microform shifts. Assist patrons in use of microforms and equipment.
- Compile statistics and data; prepare summary reports and lists, as assigned.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities: This job supervises student assistants.
Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and Experience: BA/BS and MLS or JD degree required. Experience in a service-oriented job, supervisory experience and some experience with either online systems, library procedures or legal materials preferred.
University Benefits for Eligible Employees: The University’s comprehensive benefits program, which currently includes major health insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability, vision care and tuition assistance, is available to all eligible employees.
Application Procedure:
Please send cover letter and resume with job number to:
Golden Gate University
Human Resource Department
2 First Street, # 320
San Francisco, CA 94105
Or send via e-mail to: gguresume@ggu.edu
Fax: (415) 442-7056
Phone: (415) 442-7077
Filed under: California, jobs
