Special Collections Assistant II: Vault & Reading Room

Sacbar; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Getty Research Institute invites applications for a Library Assistant II to join the Special Collections Reading Room team. You will assist with daily operations, paging, shelving, and circulating items using the Alma/Primo system, supporting staff and researchers.

Reporting to the Reading Room Supervisor, you will help maintain vaults, perform inventories, and assist with tours or classes as needed while upholding careful handling of rare materials and adherence to copyright and metadata

Qualifications

• Undergraduate coursework in art history or related discipline preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of related experience.

Responsibilities

• Daily paging and shelving a high volume of material.
• Assists with and resolves moderately complex problems.
• Staffs a reading room and participates in a range of moderately complex library service activities for staff and external library users.
• Ensures proper handling, care, storage, preservation, and tracking of collection items.
• May conduct moderately complex collection maintenance as needed.
• Shelves, sorts, pages, routes, scans, or delivers collection materials from different locations in the library or library annex.
• Learns and uses various library software applications to execute moderately complex transactions to track materials, describe collections, manage librarycollections, and document activities.
• Maintains collection storage spaces and vaults by organizing, conducting physical shifts of material within vaults, and other inventory control projects.
• May facilitate tours, workshops, and classes.
• Participates in additional projects as assigned.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Foreign language

Software literacy

Lifting and physical ability

Climbing ladders

Industry software suites

Bibliographic databases

Handling rare materials

Metadata standards

Team collaboration

Intellectual property knowledge

Education

Undergraduate coursework in art history or related discipline

Minimum 2 years of related experience

Tools

Ex Libris Alma

Ex Libris Primo

Job description

The Getty Research Institute invites applications for a Library Assistant II to join the Special Collections Reading Room team. You will assist with daily operations, paging, shelving, and circulating items using the Alma/Primo system, supporting staff and researchers.

Reporting to the Reading Room Supervisor, you will help maintain vaults, perform inventories, and assist with tours or classes as needed while upholding careful handling of rare materials and adherence to copyright and metadata