Library Support Assistant Bookstacks
Library Support Assistant Positions – Main Library
Student assistants at the UI Libraries are vital for providing services and welcoming spaces to our campus community. Our student employees work in a variety of positions in several different Main Library units: Acquisitions, Cataloging, Interlibrary Loan, Bookstacks, Conservation & Collections Care, or Special Collections & Archives.
Student Assistants will typically be scheduled to work 8-19 hours a week on a set semester schedule. Hours can be scheduled between classes during the week in convenient increments. Some units offer the possibility of more advanced student positions that could offer you the benefits of higher pay, increased responsibility, and management experience.
Sample tasks include but are not limited to:
- Provide friendly, competent assistance at a service desk (Check out/in materials, retrieve items from closed stacks)
- Answer informational questions about the library and its resources
- Shelve and shift library material
- Retrieve and process materials for delivery and reserve services
- Perform basic preservation treatments on circulating collection
- Catalog database maintenance; metadata maintenance in InfoHawk+ and IRO
- Process vendor cataloged books
- Scan/photocopy patron requests; process manuscript collections
- Page items for on‐site patron use as well as interlibrary loan requests
- Work with online collection finding aids.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Customer service and communication skills – dependability - desire to learn new technologies and skills
Benefits of Working at the Library
- Customer service, and professional work experience (Resume building!)
- Set schedule for the semester
- Bi-weekly pay checks
- Starting pay, $10 per hour, (opportunities for raises!)
- Library Student Employee Undergraduate Scholarship opportunities!
Include a resume and schedule availability (or course schedule) when applying. If you have work-study,