Library Technician ; Substitute​/Oncall

Barstow Community College

Salary: $17.80 Hourly

Location:

MAIN CAMPUS - 2700 BARSTOW ROAD, BARSTOW, CA

Job Type: TEMPORARY

Job Number: 00047

Department: ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Division: DISTANCE EDUCATION & LEARNING SUPPORT SERVICES

Opening Date: 02/22/2018

Closing Date

FLSA:
Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit: TH

Barstow Community College is an open-access, comprehensive two-year institution serving a diverse student population in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County, California. The College's campus is located in the City of Barstow, California, situated in California's high desert, between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Established in 1959, the Barstow Community College District (BCCD) encompasses a vast service area, stretching from the Nevada border on the East to Kern County on the West, and from Inyo County in the North to the San Bernardino Mountain range in the South. BCCD serves the communities of Barstow, Lenwood, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Yermo, Hinkley, Ludlow and Baker. The institution also maintains a satellite learning center at the U.S. Army National Training Center in Ft.

Irwin, California, which serves military personnel and their families.

Barstow Community College is committed to providing an equitable, accessible, and affordable education to its diverse student body, including local, military, distance education, and historically marginalized student populations. Through a variety of high-quality and comprehensive degree, certificate, and job skills training programs, we provide holistic student support with clear and diverse educational pathways that provide students with life-long learning and networking opportunities, critical thinking skills, and success in a globalized world.

Barstow Community College serves as a hub of innovation and educational excellence, fostering a culture of growth, partnership, and inclusion as the premier college of the California High Desert.

This is a continuous recruitment for an applicant pool to fill part-time, substitute, temporary, or hourly assignments on an as needed basis.

Substitute compensation will be calculated using step 1 of the level the classification is placed on the Classified Salary Schedule.

• Serves as the primary customer service resource in the circulation area, to staff, students, and the public.
• Assists faculty, staff, students, and other visitors with use of the library. Assists them to find materials and use resource guides.
• Conducts "walk-and-talk" orientations for students and staff in areas such as but not limited to, general use of the library, periodical research, bibliographic search, Internet search, or use of electronic media.
• Demonstrates the use of card catalogs and performs cataloging. Performs basic reference services.
• Shelves new and returned materials (books, media, or periodicals) in the absence of student employees and assures data entry into the library system.
• Mends and repairs book and non-book materials. Disposes of damaged or outdated materials according to established procedures.
• Maintains a clean and orderly environment.
• Circulates, stores, and inventories books, periodicals, and audiovisual materials including those that are overdue.
• Maintains records for lost and overdue books and fines, issuing grade and record holds based on student account balances.
• Processes a full range of library materials within established parameters.
• Processes requests and maintains records for interlibrary loans including those required for cooperative library system materials, and maintaining the course reserve collection.
• Maintains current procedures manuals for the position. Cross-trains other staff members.
• Coordinates, designs, and constructs library displays, bulletin boards, posters and signs. Maintains a clean and orderly environment.
• Checks-out and in, sets up, delivers, and picks up various audio-visual equipment to support classrooms and administrative requests.
• Assists with ordering, receiving, and inspecting library materials. Documents receipt and maintains records of transactions.
• Creates, maintains, updates computerized reserve books listing and other reserve materials for library patrons, instructors, and administrators.
• Maintains the periodical section. Recommends periodicals for purchase and inclusion.
• Performs routine clerical and record keeping duties.
• Provides guidance and training to student employees.
• Performs other duties as assigned that support the overall objective of the position.
• KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS Requires basic procedural knowledge of standard library methods, practices, and terminology including use of library card catalogs and basic reference sources. Knowledge of library data retrieval techniques. Must have a basic understanding of a classification system, subject headings, and library filing rules. Must be familiar with automated carding systems and records. Requires a working knowledge of modern office practices, procedures, and equipment including personal computers.
  
  Requires knowledge of common office…