Library Assistant I, The Harry Ransom Center

Job Posting Title:

Library Assistant I, The Harry Ransom Center

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Hiring Department:

Harry Ransom Center

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

20

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FLSA Status:

Non-Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue

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Location:

UT MAIN CAMPUS

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Job Details:

General Notes About the Harry Ransom Center:

The Ransom Center is an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin. Its extensive collections provide unique insight into the creative process of writers and artists, deepening our understanding and appreciation of literature, photography, film, art, and the performing arts.  Visitors engage with the Center's collections through research and study, exhibitions, publications, and a rich variety of program offerings including readings, talks, symposia, and film screenings. The Ransom Center encourages discovery, inspires creativity, and advances understanding of the humanities for a broad audience through the preservation and sharing of its extraordinary collections. The Ransom Center welcomes and respects all individuals and communities by valuing and maintaining awareness of under-represented perspectives and experiences. To learn more about our institutional mission and values, visit: https://www.hrc.utexas.edu/about/#mission-values.

Purpose:

To provide public service for the Harry Ransom Center Library Reading Room.

Responsibilities

• Locates, shelves, and reshelves manuscripts, books, and visual materials for patrons in a secure, closed-stacks library and archive.
• Performs all Circulation Desk functions. Serves as backup at multiple service points that includes but is not limited to Reception and Reference desks.
• Assists in gathering materials for classes, presentations, exhibitions, and other special projects. Assists with duplication orders of collection materials.
• After training, performs basic preservation tasks and assists patrons with materials handling.
• Answers directional questions in the Reading and Viewing Room.
• Assists with training of Work Study students and Student Associates.
• Locates and pulls materials for use in the classrooms and, helps with the set up and take down of classroom materials, and may assist with materials selection and classroom instruction.
• Assists with Library Storage Facility requests, routing of materials, and strapping materials for return.
• Helps foster a welcoming research environment that centers on belonging and engagement while also safeguarding collection materials.
• Revisits policies with the team to ensure alignment with current best practices.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• High school graduation or GED, and two years of library experience OR
• Sixty hours of college credit and one year of full-time equivalent library experience OR
• Twelve hours of graduate coursework in Library and Information Science.
• Must be able to work Saturdays.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated knowledge of Ransom Center collections.
• Experience in a special collections library.
• Demonstrated good customer service skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Library of Congress and Dewey Decimal classification systems.
• Experience with an automated circulation tracking system.
• Proficient in more than one language.
• Experience in preservation techniques.
• Ability to communicate and work well with scholars in the humanities and with library and other staff as a team member.
• Experience with an online library catalog and with databases.
• Experience with or interest in literary materials.
• Good written and oral communication skills. 

Salary Range

$19,500.00

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions
• Repetitive use