Part-Time Library Aide (Mahon)

Summary Performs job duties in a way that promotes a positive image of the City organization and the department; demonstrates effective interpersonal skills and delivers exemplary customer service; processes returned materials and reshelves them.

Essential Functions

• Provide excellent customer service;
• Empty book drops;
• Process, route, and reshelve returned books;
• Assist at circulation desk;
• Maintain shelves;
• Perform related duties as required.

Qualifications Graduation from high school or equivalent or any combination of education and experience that provides the following:

Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge Of

• Library organization and procedures;
• Customer service best practices;
• Variety of books and library materials.

Ability to:

• Charge and discharge materials, assess and collect fines/fees, and perform similar tasks related to the circulation function;
• Promote library services and public relations;
• Use a computer, telephone, cash register, book carts, and sensitizing machine.
• Ability to alphabetize and shelve books in proper location;
• Use correct grammar and perform arithmetic calculations;
• Perform detailed routines at a high rate of accuracy

Physical Requirements

• Frequently lift and carry up to 10 pounds;
• Occasionally lift and carry up to 25 pounds;
• Push and pull object in order to shelve materials and push the book cart;
• Frequently climb step ladders or stairs;
• Frequently twist, bend, kneel and crouch in order to shelve books;
• Continuously reach above, at and below shoulder height.

Part-time employees who have at least six (6) months continuous employment may be paid for all holidays except the Veterans Day floating holiday. Part-time employees are not eligible for the Veteran’s Day floating holiday because City offices are not closed on that day. The number of hours granted these employees as holiday pay is based on the average number of hours normally worked in a day.

The City designates the eleven (11) following dates as holidays to be observed with pay:

New Year’s Day – January 1

Martin Luther King Day – Third Monday in January

Good Friday – Friday before Easter

Memorial Day – Last Monday in May

Independence Day – July 4

Labor Day – First Monday of September

Veterans Day – November 11 (Floating Holiday)

Thanksgiving Day – Fourth Thursday in November

Friday after Thanksgiving (Fourth Friday in November)

Christmas Eve – December 24

Christmas Day – December 25