Circulation Clerk Township of Washington Public Library

The Township of Washington Public Library is seeking a Part Time Circulation Clerk.

Schedule includes morning and afternoon shifts, with one evening a week and one Saturday a month on rotation.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Checks library materials in and out, and enters transaction records into a computer data base.
• Empty book drops, check items in, inspect incoming items for damage, reactivate items.
• Inform patron’s that their reserve item is ready for pickup, weed expired reserves, and fill new reserves.
• Explains library card rules to library users, inspects users’ identification and issues library cards.
• Retrieves information from a computer and notifies library users of overdue and lost books.
• Performs library opening and closing procedures as required.
• Answers library users’ questions and explains library circulation policies regarding overdue materials, reserving library materials and related policies.
• Resolves easy library user problems related to the circulation function.
• May perform some ILL tasks; such as bundling books for van pick up.

Other duties as assigned.