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Office Assistant: LibraryThing

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, July 20, 2007
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LibraryThing, the web’s largest and most innovative site for book lovers, is looking for a full-time Office Assistant. We’re especially interested in hiring someone with knowledge of libraries and metadata.

Responsibilities:

• Customer service-corresponding with LibraryThing members, authors, and libraries. LibraryThing is a community-driven website-communicating with members is a big part of this job.
• Basic office management-minor bookkeeping, keep track of employee files, invoices, etc.
• Brainstorm and play with new features, assist with PR (press and blogs); generally help out wherever you’re needed.

Skills:

• We value brains, dedication, creativity and bibliophilia.
• Strong communication and organizational skills, and the ability to work independently as well as with a team.
• Basic computer skills essential
• HTML, CSS, knowledge of social networking, bibliographic data or library systems a plus.

How we work:

• LibraryThing is more than a job for us. We work long, hard and usually sober. We love what we do. We want someone who will feel the same way. We’re a small, easy going company. Wear jeans and flip flops to work!
• Position is based in Cambridge, MA.
• Competitive salary and excellent benefits-full health and dental.

About LibraryThing:
LibraryThing is a social cataloging and social networking site for book lovers. Started in August 2005 as a personal project, LibraryThing has grown to a handful of employees and some 230,000 members in a dozen countries. Members have cataloged 16 million books and applied over 20 million tags. We are well known in the library world, and rapidly winning over booksellers, authors and publishers.

Send your resume and cover letter to Abby (abby@librarything.com).