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City of Appleton • Appleton, WI

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Appleton Public Library is seeking a Library Assistant - Public Services (Sub) to join their dynamic team. This part-time, non-benefited position involves maintaining the arrangement of library materials, shelving, shifting, and picking up materials. Pages also gather requested materials for the reserve list and place them on hold shelves. The position requires 10-16 hours per week with a flexible schedule and is supervised by a section assistant supervisor and the section supervisor.

Requirements

• At least two years of high school education or any equivalent combination of experience and training
• Good organizational skills
• Good attention to detail
• Ability to read fine print
• The ability to sort materials alphabetically and numerically quickly and accurately
• The ability to reach shelving within a height range of three to 75 inches, lift up to 50 pounds, and push a loaded book cart (300 lbs.) on carpeting
• The ability to kneel, crouch, stand, bend, reach or walk for most of a work shift
• The ability to use hands, wrists and arms for most of a work shift
• The ability to stand up quickly from a kneeling or sitting position on the floor
• The ability to communicate with tact and courtesy

Responsibilities

• Reshelve materials
• Maintain proper and neat arrangements of library materials on shelves
• Cleanup materials from throughout the library
• Handle materials from tubs to conveyor and sorting bins onto carts
• Put carts of materials in alpha/numeric order
• Shift materials among shelves
• Gather materials to fill reserves
• Process holds
• Check the condition of media returned to APL as needed
• Special projects including major shifting of library materials or shelf reading
• Refer questions from the public to service desks appropriately
• Attend training and staff meetings
• Keep current on library policies and procedures

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED