Student Jobs

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All positions are filled for Fall 2008 

• *POSITION FILLED* Acquisitions Student Assistant: Helps with the ordering and receiving of library materials. checking in new materials, and verifying order information using BIP and other resources and downloading records from the OCLC database into MUSCAT. Other duties as assigned. Additional requirements: organized, methodical habits. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer.

• *POSITION FILLED* Administrative Offices Student Assistant: Student will assist with all areas of Administrative Office work, duties will include: Maintaining spreadsheets, processing outgoing library mailings, filing, organizing, data entry, sorting incoming mail. Duties may extend to designing and distributing event fliers, and book or product research. Also participates in other projects and duties as assigned. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, dependable, detail-oriented, organized, good people skills. Word processing, Excel spreadsheet skills, and accurate typist a must. Must be able to lift cartons weighing up to 40 lbs.

• *POSITION FILLED* Book Repair Assistant: Helps with repair and maintenance of books. Activities include page repair, tip ins of loose pages, spine repair and replacement. May also assist in basic book processing for Technical Services. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail oriented, good manual dexterity with an aptitude for skilled use of tools and related materials.

• *POSITION FILLED* Cataloging Student Assistant: Gets items ready for the shelf; physical processing of books and other materials (covers, stamps, etc.). Produces item labels using WordPerfect and conducts quality control of items to check that they are processed correctly. Changes the status of items in MUSCAT before sending to the stacks. Other duties as assigned. Additional requirements: organized, methodical work habits. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer.

• *POSITION FILLED* Circulation Desk Student Assistant: Provides direct customer service from Library's main desk area. Circulates library materials: checks books, interlibrary loan, and reserve materials in/out, checks out videos, CDs, and DVDs. Maintains materials in main desk area and reference collection, walks through the building to retrieve materials to be returned into stacks, troubleshoots copy and microfilm reader/printer machines. Other tasks as assigned. Advanced skills include responsibility for opening/closing building and maintaining all main desk activities in the absence of staff supervisor, training new student assistants, supervising/managing student workers' schedule problems, being on call to cover for other student workers, as needed. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be prompt, reliable and responsible, and able to work with the public.

• *POSITION FILLED* Copyright Assistant: Assists the Library Copyright Committee by conducting research concerning copyright and intellectual property issues in the higher education environment. Must have excellent online search skills and be an experienced library user. Prefer upper level student who is familiar with the Gettysburg College campus environment, offices, associations, etc. Ideal for a student with an interest in law or law-related careers. Must be able to present findings clearly and logically. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be dependable, organized, extremely detail-oriented, and self-motivated. Must have a good working knowledge of general computer applications such as Word, Excel, etc.

• *POSITION FILLED* Interlibrary Loan Student: Helps get materials ready for lending to other libraries. Processes incoming loans and returning books. Helps to verify citations. Photocopying, Scanning. Additional qualifications: an aptitude for research and willingness to learn library "detective"" skills to locate the "hard to find" item. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer.

• *POSITION FILLED* Media Services Student Assistant: Helps with all aspects of media such as video previewing and processing requests for film showings. Also helps with putting films on reserve and showing movies and films in the library. Assists patrons with microfilm/microfiche readers. Additional qualifications: occasional lifting required. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer.

• *POSITION FILLED* Reference & Instruction Student Specialist: Are you creative and unafraid of computers? If so, the lively Reference and Instruction department at the Library wants YOU as a team member. As our Reference & Instruction Student Specialist, you will help with all aspects of the daily operations of our department. In addition, duties will include managing spreadsheets assisting in the design of instructional and promotional materials (print and electronic) for departmental use, helping to process the selection of new reference titles, and assisting with classroom instructional needs. Other duties will be assigned as they develop and you develop. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Demonstrated Abilities Desired: Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications. Keyboarding skills required and an eye for good design is a plus. It's helpful for you to have an interest in education, working with the public, and working with computers software applications. Attention to detail (and a willingness to photocopy!) is essential. We want to work with a prompt, reliable, responsible person who is comfortable with information technologies. Individuals who have worked with web page development and design, yearbook staffs, word processing and web design software applications, customer service, instructional assistance, as well as prior library experience could be well-suited to this position because of prior experience and knowledge, skills and demonstrated abilities. If you have keyboarding skills and are interested in this position and have the desire to help the members of your college community, but need some training to meet the additional requirements of the position, let's talk.

• *POSITION FILLED* Reserves Student Assistant: Assists in processing Reserve books and articles. Occasionally scans electronic reserves. Provides support to Reserves Assistant for special projects and related tasks. Additional qualifications: organized, methodical work habits.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.

• *POSITION FILLED* Serials/Collection Development Assistant: Processes daily mail including journals, newspapers and microfilm, keeps stacks in order, processing book shipments and returning bindery shipments, comparing invoices against CNAV, distributing approval slips and review cards, processing donor and publisher gifts, noting Serials Change bulletin delivery problems in Millennium, and assist with weeding projects. Help run ebay^® auctions of valuable gift books. Ability to read call numbers, facilitate necessary call number corrections, identify titles, examine books for damage, and review titles for circulation/usage, statistics. Some light carrying and lifting, general clerical tasks, and organizational skills. Ability to push a book cart. Also participates in other projects and duties as assigned. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Ability to read call numbers. Word processing and Excel spreadsheet skills desired. Some mechanical aptitude helpful. Interest in working on a computer.

• *POSITION FILLED* Shelvers: Shelve books, CDs, DVDs, and videos, shelf-reading in a specific section of the library stacks, inventory and locate missing books, walk through the building to retrieve materials to be returned into stacks. Maintenance of orderly stacks and surrounding area. Other duties as assigned. Additional requirements: Understanding of Library of Congress call numbers or willingness to learn. Responsible for physical appearance of the library. Ability to push a cart full of books. Light lifting. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, good people skills. Some mechanical aptitude helpful.

• *POSITION FILLED* Special Collections Student Assistant: Shelves books and files photographs in Special Collections; creates and types container lists; creates indices; inputs data; photocopies delicate materials; monitors reading room; assists with exhibits; processes publications for binding; performs other related duties as assigned. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be dependable, self-motivated, a quick learner, independent, an accurate typist and have knowledge of Microsoft Word. Previous library experience preferred, but not required. History major preferred, but must at least have an interest in working with documents, manuscripts, rare books, rare maps, and artifacts. Must be able to lift cartons weighing up to 40 lbs.

• *POSITION FILLED* Special Collections Student Assistant 1: Student will be responsible for the filing and organization in Special Collections of artifacts, vertical file items, audio cassettes, films and CDs as needed. In addition, student will meticulously update all appropriate finding aids. This student will also assist in organizing the microfilm collection. General duties will include photocopying of delicate and / or acidic materials, removal of all metals (ie. staples) from materials if necessary and shelving when needed. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be dependable, a quick learner, organized, extremely detail-oriented and self-motivated. Must have a good working knowledge of general computer applications such as Word, Excel, etc. and be an accurate typist.

• *POSITION FILLED*   Special Collections Student Assistant 2: Student will be responsible for producing archival TIFFs and JPEG derivatives of college photographs by following the digital preservation and imaging standards of Special Collections. Student must also maintain organization of images so as to facilitate retrieval by the staff. Duties may also extent to research of photographs and data entry. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be dependable and a quick learner. Should have strong experience with Adobe Photoshop and general knowledge of digital imaging. Ideal candidate will have an interest in photograph and / or graphic design.

• *POSITION FILLED* Special Collections Student Assistant 3: Student will be responsible for the general organization of the photograph collection. Duties will include identification of the images, maintenance of the collection's finding aid, label printing and accurate filing of photos. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills and Aptitudes: Must be dependable, a quick learner, organized, extremely detail-oriented and self-motivated. Must have a good working knowledge of general computer applications such as Word (label-making), Excel, etc. and be an accurate typist.

• *POSITION FILLED* Web Student Assistant: Helps support the ongoing maintenance and development of the library web site. Edits and updates existing web pages, creates new ones as needed, learns and works within the confines of the existing web site architecture. Takes digital photos, edits them as needed, and stores them properly. Experience with graphic design or layout a plus. Need someone with strong computer skills as well as an eye for good user design and appealing visuals. Position starts at $7.15 per hour.
  Essential Skills & Aptitudes: Prompt, reliable, responsible, detail-oriented, and organized. Must be proficient in a web editor, preferably Dreamweaver. Must be able to use (or learn to use) a graphic editor such as Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.