Job Type

Full-time
Description
Category/Classification: Temporary Summer Employment (Non-Exempt)
Reports to: Associate Director of Reference and Adult Services; Associate Director of Youth Services
General Summary
The Summer Library Assistant is responsible for assisting Associate Director during the Summer Reading Program and performs other temporary library assignments. i.e. shelving books, digitization.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Works with team members to create a caring, courteous, and respectful environment.
• Participates and assists with summer reading program activities.
• Assists youth in locating library material.
• Assists with maintaining records of youth's readings following departmental procedures.
• Assists with crafts, games and other activities.
• Shelves library material following the Dewey Decimal System.
• Assists in checking material back in, when assigned.
• Performs special projects as assigned
• Straightens public service area before library closing.
• Performs other entry level duties as assigned.

Requirements
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Ability to alphabetize and put things in numerical order.
Physical and Mental Requirements
Ability to lift, bend and reach. Ability to work indoors and outdoors.
Education, Certification, Experience, and Training
Working on or completed high school degree.
Preference may be given to individuals who have done work in the library as a volunteer.
The requirements given above are not intended as exclusive standards for this position. Additionally, the duties and responsibilities listed are meant to be illustrative of the nature of the position and do not include all tasks that may be necessary to this job function. Further, individuals may be required to work in other areas and at different functions that those described in accord with changing needs of the library.