Now Hiring: College Assistant, Interlibrary Loan

The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library seeks a College Assistant to work in the Interlibrary Loan department.  This busy and collegial department provides a core service at the Library, providing access to a wide variety of materials for our faculty, staff and students.  College Assistants play an essential role in the daily operation of the unit, assisting customers and processing requests accurately and efficiently on a daily basis to support the GC community’s research needs.

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Essential qualities and qualifications include dependability, strong communication skills, customer service orientation, confident computer skills, conscientiousness and attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and an ability to work cooperatively in teams.

Responsibilities include pulling and scanning materials for various delivery services; processing incoming, lending and Scan & Deliver requests; handling returns; maintaining stacks; providing customer service to library users; and assisting with miscellaneous tasks in the library as needed.  Duties involve a significant amount of packing and unpacking physical materials, carting books, searching in library catalogs and databases, and learning a variety of software specific to interlibrary loan, library circulation, and shipping.

This is a part-time position, for 20 hours per week.

Resumes, available days/times, and a statement of interest should be sent to Silvia Cho at jcho@gc.cuny.edu.  The listing will remain open until filled.

About the Author

Resource Sharing Librarian, Graduate Center Library.