Institution: Princeton University
Location: Princeton, NJ
Posted: 06/11/2013
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Part-Time/Adjunct
Education: high school or equivalent

Position Summary: Responsibilities:

Position handles the lending side of the Interlibrary Loan / Document Delivery Service at the East Asian Library, which involves requests in Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Western-languages: it processes speedily these requests, verifies citations, retrieves items, ships items to shipping or puts scanned articles on a server, and communicates with users and other libraries. In addition, the position also prepares items to be sent out to preservation or binding, and processes incoming Western material.

Part of a small circulation team in a branch library the position occasionally has to perform a wide variety of general circulation services as required, including but not limited to desk duties, assistance to patrons, placing Annex requests etc. The position involves some training and supervision of students, especially shelving. In addition, each semester the position assists its supervisor in the processing of reserves. All duties may involve physical work in addition to computer processing.

The position uses the Library’s integrated library system Voyager, and the ILLiad interlibrary loan/document delivery service (including ancillary programs such as Acrobat, Ariel and Odyssey, and the OCLC database).

Essential Qualifications: Position Requires:

Must be very service-oriented and have excellent customer service skills; must work effectively and diplomatically with all users.

Demonstrated ability to build good working relationships and work with others in a team environment.

Excellent oral communication, judgment, and problem-solving skills in English.

Some knowledge of Chinese characters for identification purposes is required, with a willingness and capability to learn the basics of the scripts and transcription systems for all three CJK languages.

Candidate must demonstrate that (s) he will be able to learn quickly computer programs such as Voyager (circulation, cataloging, reserves), E-Reserves, ILLiad, Acrobat and OCLC FirstSearch, and has to present sufficient indications of analytic skills and accuracy to show (s) he will be able to learn quickly structure of bibliographic MARC records and different classification schemes.

While much of the work is done at a computer terminal, must also be able to lift and shelve books (using stepladders), and push large book trucks holding approximately 300 volumes. Other physical tasks involve careful dealing with large, heavy and dusty books, possibly in poor condition.

Education Required: High School or Equivalent

Preferred Qualifications: Preferred:

Preferred Experience using Voyager or similar library systems. Experience using ILLiad. Some previous experience with copy machines, scanners, and scanning software, and general experience with PC computers. Experience using on-line union catalogs and databases (such as OCLC).

The final candidate will be required to successfully pass a background check.

NOTE: This is a part-time position, 20 hours per week. Work schedule 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (possibly negotiable)

For details and to apply, see listing on HigherEdJobs.com.

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