Help Wanted: College Assistant

Job Description:
Assists the Circulation Manager with daily operations by:
shelving books in correct location and sequence
shelf-reading the library’s collection
picking up, straightening, sorting, searching books
loading copy machines with paper, toner

Assists the Reserve Manager with daily operations by:
placing books and articles on reserve
retrieving closed reserve material for users upon request
finding reserve and non-reserve books upon request
returning reserve items at the end of each semester
keeping the reserve area neat

COMPLEXITY OF DUTIES

• handles a variety of tasks and determines their priority

• demands high levels of accuracy in shelf reading and material retrieval

• requires routine follow-up on many tasks, e.g. searching for books, shelf-reading

LEVEL OF DECISION-MAKING

• primary service contact for student and instructors regarding reserve requests

• determines when questions are best referred to a co-worker

REQUIREMENTS
knowledge of the Library of Congress call number system
weekend and evening hours
flexible work schedule
familiarity with Microsoft Office & PC desktop
pleasant and effective communication with library users

Contact Curtis Matthew; Circulation Manager, x7050

Help Wanted: Library Desk Coordinator

DUTIES: Primary service contact with library users during evening and weekend hours

· Charges and discharges library material

· Assesses, collects and records fines for lost books

· Registers new patrons and updates current patron records

· Sends out notices and follows-up on overdue or lost library materials

· Recalls books needed for reserve; places holds

· Communicates with a variety of Graduate Center offices

· Packages books to be returned to other CUNY colleges

· Places materials on reserve

· Helps library users find library material

· Returns reserve items to faculty at the end of each semester

· Maintains order of Reserve collection

REQUIREMENTS: Familiarity with computer applications and software; proficiency with Microsoft Windows desktop. Pleasant manner, good judgment and excellent communication and customer service skills including attention to detail, organizational skills, sound reasoning and judgment. Preference given to those with basic knowledge of library circulation & reserves operations. Familiarity with Library of Congress call number system also preferred.

HOURS: Weekend and evening hours; flexible work schedule

CONTACT: Curtis Matthew, Circulation Manager (x7050).

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online

The Graduate Center subscribes to Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, providing access to more than 2,000 translations from French, German, Italian, and Spanish dictionaries published by Oxford University Press.

CAMBER

The Graduate Center has a trial of CAMBER, offering the full text of 74 scholarly books in Asian studies, economics, education, history, literature, sociology, and theater.

Expanded Web of Science Subscription

The Mina Rees Library is pleased to announce that we now have a full subscription to the ISI Web of Science database. Previously we had only subscribed to the Social Sciences Citation Index portion of the database. Now we have a full subscription that includes the Arts and Humanities Citation Index and the Science Citation Index. Please contact your department’s library liaison if you have a question about using Web of Science. Also look for an upcoming training session we will host near the start of the Spring Semester to introduce the database to the GC Community.