Special Collections Library Assistant II

Getty; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

403(b) retirement plan

401(a) retirement contribution

Educational assistance

Paid vacation, sick, and personal days

12 paid holidays

On-site fitness center

Community service opportunities

Job summary

Getty seeks a Library Assistant II to join the Special Collections Reading Room team at the Getty Research Institute. You will assist with public service activities, circulation, and monitoring the Reading Room, using Ex Libris Alma/Primo to manage materials and patron requests.

You will support daily operations, inventory, and shelving, while collaborating with staff and curators to ensure careful handling of rare items in a world-renowned research library.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate coursework in art history or related discipline.
• Minimum 2 years of related experience.
• Experience with library databases and cataloging systems.
• Ability to lift boxes and push book trucks up to 40 pounds.
• Ability to work in a team and provide public service.

Responsibilities

• Daily paging and reshelving 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 library collections, 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 reading

Library software

Physically able

Inventory control

Teamwork

Copyright knowledge

Education

Undergraduate coursework in art history

Tools

Ex Libris Alma & Primo

Job description

Getty seeks a Library Assistant II to join the Special Collections Reading Room team at the Getty Research Institute. You will assist with public service activities, circulation, and monitoring the Reading Room, using Ex Libris Alma/Primo to manage materials and patron requests.

You will support daily operations, inventory, and shelving, while collaborating with staff and curators to ensure careful handling of rare items in a world-renowned research library.