Library Aide: Gere and South Branches

City of Lincoln & Lancaster County; Lincoln (NE); On-site; USD 17,000 - 21,000; Part time

Job summary

The City of Lincoln & Lancaster County is seeking a part-time Library Aide to work primarily at Gere and South Branch Libraries in Lincoln, NE. You will help customers, shelve materials, and ensure items are checked in and distributed to their next destination.

Duties include shelf reading, emptying bookdrops, performing collection maintenance, and assisting with library programs setup or teardown. Schedule includes days, evenings, and weekends, with up to 20 hours per week.

Qualifications

• Shelves materials efficiently and performs shelf reading.
• Check in materials and sort materials for relocation.
• Assist with set-up or tear-down for library programs.

Responsibilities

• Shelves materials efficiently, performs shelf reading, checks in materials, empties bookdrops and sorts materials, assists with collection maintenance such as shifting, search lists, inventories, weeding.
• Pull items to fill customer hold requests and operate behind the scenes to ensure materials are distributed to their next destination.

Job description

This position works primarily at Gere (2400 S 56th St, Lincoln, NE 68506) and South (2675 South St, Lincoln, NE 68502) Branch Libraries

Part-time, Monday - Sunday. Hours: Up to 20 hrs/week as assigned, including day, evening, and weekend hours. Work schedule may vary. Additional hours may occasionally be available, and schedule adjustments may be necessary around holidays and other closures. This position is not eligible for Holiday Pay or other benefits.

Library Aides provide excellent service to our customers behind the scenes by ensuring returned materials are checked in correctly and distributed to their next destination. They are also visible in our libraries as they accurately shelve materials to be readily accessible by staff and customers, pull items to fill customer hold requests, and perform various collection maintenance tasks such as inventory, accurate relocation of mis-shelved items, organizing materials, and pulling assigned materials for removal from the collection. Aides may assist with set-up or tear-down for library programs.

Examples of work performed: Shelves materials efficiently, performs shelf reading, checks in materials, empties bookdrops and sorts materials, assists with collection maintenance such as shifting, search lists, inventories, weeding.

For more information on the Libraries please visit https://lincolnlibraries.org/