City of Virginia Beach has a great opportunity to join Virginia Beach Public Library as a part time (20 hrs./per week) “Library Service Specialist I. As part of a collaborative library system, staff may occasionally have opportunities or be reassigned to support service needs at other locations within the system
This is a wonderful way to start your library career with many resources to continue your growth with us. Don’t miss out Apply today!
Library Services Specialist I (PT)- duties include but not limited to:
- Shelve library materials accurately in alpha-numeric order to ensure immediate access by staff and customers.
- Maintain library materials in proper order and adjust to changes in the collection by shifting materials to improve access to them.
- Assist customers with basic questions to provide quality customer service and refer more complicated questions to appropriate staff members as needed
- Perform the tasks necessary to prepare the agency for opening and closing.
- Regularly check the proper order of library materials on shelves
- Respond effectively to customers’ requests for assistance
- Ability to deal with stressful situations with tact and diplomacy
- Flexibility, responsiveness, and good communication skills
- Ability to learn and use the computerized circulation system
- Physical ability to lift, stoop, and stretch to transfer books and materials weighing 1 - 15 lbs. each from 4 to 7.5 hours per day and to be on your feet for long periods of time. Physical ability to push/pull fully loaded, wheeled library book carts.
- May perform circulation functions, including account maintenance, issuing library cards, cash handling, checking library materials in and out, managing holds and interlibrary loan requests.
"Applicants from this advertisement may be used to fill upcoming vacancies in the same job title/status throughout the Library Department for 90 days from the closing date of this position."
