Part-Time Library Assistant – Campus Services

Details:

The CT State Community College is developing a pool of applicants for potential part-time Library Assistant positions. (Up to 17 hours per week).

These positions are on continuous recruitment, and are filled on an as-needed basis, depending on specific department needs. You will only be contacted if there is a current need at the campus you indicated on your application and have met the qualifications/skills and experience that are required for the position.

Your applications will stay active for 1 year.

Multiple Campuses

This position is not remote

Asuntuck – 170 Elm Street, Enfield, CT

Capital – 950 Main Street, Hartford, CT

Gateway – 20 Church Street, New Haven, CT

Housatonic – 900 Lafayette Blvd, Bridgeport, CT

Manchester – Great Path, Manchester, CT

Middlesex – 100 Training Hill Rd, Middletown, CT

Naugatuck Valley – Waterbury and Danbury Campuses

Northwestern – Park Pl, Winsted, CT

Norwalk – 188 Richards Ave, Norwalk, CT

Quinebaug Valley – 42 Upper Maple St, Danielson, CT

Three Rivers – 574 New London Turnpike, Norwich, CT

Tunxis – 271 Scott Swamp Rd 100 Building, Farmington, CT

Connecticut State Community College (CT State) provides access to academically rigorous and innovative education and training focused on student success. The College supports excellence in teaching and learning, makes data-informed decisions, promotes equity, advances positive change for the students, communities, and industries it serves, and awards associate degrees and certificates.

CT State will be recognized for exceptional student success, educational leadership, and transformative collaboration with business and industry, government, educational, and key stakeholders while advancing diverse opportunities for Connecticut’s citizens and communities.

The CSCU system commits to bold and disruptive change by actively identifying, naming, and dismantling structural racism, systemic poverty, and other barriers; establishing equitable and anti-racist policies and practices; and empowering students, faculty, staff, and administrators to advance racial, social, and economic justice. Our core collective responsibility is to continuously assess practices and policies and transform the world we live in by eliminating inequities.

Continuous open recruitment

Filled on an as-needed basis, depending on specific college needs. Applications will stay active for 1 year.

The Library Assistant performs support services in one or more library functions in the library or learning resource center of a Community College which provides library services to students, faculty, staff and citizens. These functions may include: circulation; periodicals processing; acquisitions processing; interlibrary loans; reserves; on-line copy cataloging; basic reference and readers’ advisory; and audio-visual equipment lending.

The position provides services to assist the library in its support of the College’s learning and instructional goals. The position may be required to provide coverage for the library at designated times in the absence of more senior positions.

Under the direction of the Librarian, Director of Library Services, or other administrator the incumbent is accountable for providing useful and helpful services to the library and its patrons in support of the College’s learning mission through effective performance of essential tasks in one or more of the following functional areas, as assigned:

• Circulation
• Interlibrary loans
• General public service
• Technical services
• Periodicals processing
• Audio-visual equipment lending

This posting includes qualifications, experience and skills but is not limited to the full specifications stated in the job description. Candidate may perform some or all of the job functions.

Associates degree, with preference for Library Technical Science or a subject area related to library services in the academic field.

Successful Candidate must have or must possess:

• Experience with Librarianship…