Part-time Library Assistant - Island Heights & Jackson Branches

Salary: $18.45 Hourly

Location : Island Heights, NJ

Job Type: Part-Time

Job Number: P-

Department: Public Services - Island Heights

Division: Island Heights Branch

Opening Date: 07/16/2025

Closing Date: 7/23/2025 11:59 PM Eastern

Description

21 hours per week: Mon: 9-2; Tues: 9-5; Wed: 12-5; Sun (Jackson): 1-5

Examples of Duties

Check in/out/renew library materials

Calculate and collect fines

Register customers for library cards

Assist customers in finding materials

Answers patron inquiries pertaining library hours, offices and personnel, and the availability and ability to place holds on popular or new publications.

Rotating Assignments including: processing of daily delivery; hold lists; drop ship; data entry assignments (such as compiling programming information for publicity deadlines); processing return mailers and meeting room set-up for program support.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to work harmoniously with peers, subordinates, and customers by actively creating an atmosphere of respect and inclusion

Ability to understand and follow Ocean County Library policies and procedures

Performs filing/shelving/searching tasks involving the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification System and alphabetical filing systems beyond the initial letter of a word.

Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the library including word processing, the library circulation and catalog modules, telephone system, photocopiers, fax machines, etc.

Ability to meet Ocean County Library's Reference Competencies Level I within one year of employment.

Education and Experience Requirements

License: Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.

To be appointed to the Senior Library Assistant title, applicants must meet all New Jerse Civil Service requirements. Successful completion of one year (30 semester hour credits) in a librarian technician course at an accredited college or university can be substituted for the above experience.

Those OCL employees currently serving in a temporary position or unclassified monitor title are welcome to bid on this position. Eligible candidates will be referred in the following way:

Permanent OCL employees in order of union seniority

Temporary library assistants

Monitors

Paid time off (vacation, sick)

NJ State Defined Contribution Retirement Plan (DCRP)