Educational Assistant - Library​/Abiquiu part time

Educational Assistant
- Library/Abiquiu part time

Espanola Public Schools Abiquiu Elementary
- Abiquiu, New Mexico

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Job : 4378297

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Re-Posted: Jul 25, 2025 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Immediately

Must have a Level III Educational Assistant Public Education Department License.

Must take the Para pro exam or have a minimum of an AA degree

Title: Educational Assistant Library Elementary School

Work Unit/

Location:

Reports To:

The principal

Supervises:
Students

Contract Length: 260 days

Pay

Schedule:

per salary schedule

Overtime Status: Must be pre-approved

Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 4:30 a.m.

Union Status: Non-Union

Licensure: N/A

General Job Function

Education/Training/

Experience:

• High School Diploma
• Typing and filing skills

Knowledge/

Skills and Abilities:

Resources Used in Performing Job Include (but are not limited to):
Standard office equipment and vehicle for district travel. A district car may be used or if the employee uses his/her own vehicle mileage reimbursement is available.

Physical/Cognitive Requirements:

Regularly required to walk, talk and listen. Frequently it is required to stand and sit. Required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and depth perception. Light lifting at times.

Environmental Conditions:

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Essential Job Functions:

• Operates and supervises the library to which it is assigned.
• Understands and follows oral and written directives.
• Maintains open communication and cordial public relations with media, staff, teachers, administrators, sales representatives, parents, students and others.
• Arranges frequently changing book fairs, storytime, audio visual showing, library displays, bulletin boards, library promotional activities and exhibits likely to interest library users.
• Oversees the general neatness and attractiveness of the library and its displays
• Prepares and administers the library budget
• Directs and assists in the production of media
• Catalogs, maintains, and operates audio visual hardware
• Keeps library media and equipment in working order
• Weeds obsolete and worn media from the collections
• Makes repairs on library media, books, periodicals, audio visual hardware
• Takes the annual inventory of library media and prepares lists of missing library media to be discarded.
• Maintains current inventory of supplies
• Operates the circulation desk and keeps circulation files
• Monitors attendance in the library and keeps attendance records
• Writes notices to homeroom teachers concerning overdue books, collects fines for such books, and maintains an accurate record of them.
• Evaluates, selects, and requisitions new library media.
• Assist teachers in the selection of books and other library media, and makes library media available to supplement the instructional program
• Performs clerical routines necessary for the smooth operation of the library
• Selects, types and processes orders, reports, bibliographies, forms, library schedules, letters to publishers, catalog cards, and the like.
• Ensures that books and other media are selected according to need and suitability using recommended selection tools, maintains order files, receives processed media from the Library Media Processing Center and organizes them for use.
• Insures that all media is properly shelved
• Shelves incoming media and files cards received from the library media processing center
• Prepares current magazines for shelving
• Maintains files of catalog cards, vertical file materials, publishers…