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Reference Assistant - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA

Filed under GSLIS Jobs and Opportunities
Posted by GSLIS, June 05, 2008
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JOB TITLE:
Library Reference Assistant. The successful candidate will work on the Phillips Library Reference Desk 10 hours per week.

REPORTS TO: Head of Reference ande Public Service

OVERVIEW:
The Phillips Library is a rare book and manuscript repository with approximately 400,000 volumes and more than 5,000 linear feet of manuscript material. The Library also holds more than a million photographs and has substantial holdings in many areas, including Maritime, East Asian, American Decorative Arts, and local and regional materials. The Phillips Library is an amalgamation of the libraries of more than a half dozen institutions over the last 209 years. It services a worldwide audience, in its own heritage building and from afar. The primary function of the position is helping the other librarians in managing reading room operations in rare books and manuscripts. This includes daily activities as well as planning, implementation, and review of reference room procedures.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Daily activities include greeting researchers and orienting them to the reading room the cart catalogs, and specialized sources; offering reference assistance; monitoring distribution, use, and return of printed, manuscript, photographic, and microfilmed materials.
   
2. Perform reference services an areas of the library’s greatest strengths, especially maritime and local history and genealogy.
   
3. Assist patrons in using the library’s Reading Room by recommending search strategies and locating library sources as well as sources outside the library.
   
4. Perform support activities including paging and reshelving of printed and manuscript materials in all areas of the library and answering telephone, e-mail, and letter requests for information.
   
5. Carry out special projects or tasks as required by the supervisor or to meet institutional needs.
   
6. Assist patrons who come into the library by special appointment.
   

QUALIFICATIONS:
MLS or some course work in a Library School program. Planning and organizational skills helpful. Must have good communications skills and an ability to work as a team with other staff members. Ability to lift boxes of about 40 pounds and to push library trucks.

LOCATION: The Phillips Library is part of The Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, Massachusetts

SALARY: $16.00 per hour, 10 hours per week

LENGTH OF TIME: At least one year

HOW TO APPLY: Contact Human Resources at the Peabody Essex Museum.

Nancy Hammer, Director of Human Resources
The Peabody Essex Museum
East India Square
Salem, MA 01970
nancy_hammer@pem.org
978-745-9500, Ext. 3042