Special Collections Reading Room Assistant II

National Museum of Wildlife Art; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles seeks a Library Assistant II to support Special Collections Reading Room operations, retrieving and shelving materials, circulating items, and assisting researchers.

Proficiency with Ex Libris Alma and Primo, inventorying collections, and maintaining vault storage is required. The role includes supporting tours, workshops, and ongoing projects under supervision.

Qualifications

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

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 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 reading

Library software

Material handling

Ladder safety

Bibliographic databases

Digital asset management

Education

Undergraduate art history coursework

Tools

Ex Libris Alma/Primo

Job description

The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles seeks a Library Assistant II to support Special Collections Reading Room operations, retrieving and shelving materials, circulating items, and assisting researchers.

Proficiency with Ex Libris Alma and Primo, inventorying collections, and maintaining vault storage is required. The role includes supporting tours, workshops, and ongoing projects under supervision.