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Princeton University
Library Office Assistant II / RECAP (Shelving Facility Assistant)
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A Library Assistant or Technician assists librarians with organizing materials and helping patrons. Works in a public library, school library, or specialized medical, business or law library. May assist with technology resources in the library.
$38,620 / year median in New Jersey
+1% projected growth
Job Description
Overview The Research Collections & Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) seeks a Shelving Facility Assistant , a dependable and energetic individual to help process and maintain library materials in its high-density shelving facility. Library items sent to the ReCAP facility are sorted, shelved, scanned, retrieved and refiled for each of its member institutions. The individual will be part of a team that rotates responsibilities on a daily basis. ReCAP is a partnership of Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University, and The New York Public Library. The ReCAP facility encompasses eight shelving modules, two cold storage film vaults, and a 25,000 square foot processing center. The facility resides on the Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro, NJ, and its current holdings of over 18 million items makes it the largest preservation repository in North America under one roof. ReCAP adds more than 450,000 items annually, and fulfills over 200,000 physical and 20,000 scan requests per year on behalf of its partners. At ReCAP, the duties of the Shelving Facility Assistant will revolve around different aspects of two core functions: accession incoming library material into permanent storage; and circulate items held at the facility upon request. Responsibilities The ReCAP shelving facility assistant will rotate daily among the various tasks listed below: Accession new items - Unpack delivered material from truck. Assemble and label cardboard book trays. Sort material by library, type and size into appropriate trays. Accession and verify material by scanning barcodes into the shelving facility's inventory management system (IMS). Shelve trayed and non-trayed material in the high-density shelving modules. Circulate items - Use IMS to process item and scan requests of stored materials. Create work orders, retrieve items using automated lift, sort by library destination and verify material is shipped to the proper location and check it out. Upon return, check material back into facility using the IMS. Scan in items to update status, sort by storage location, and reshelve material using handheld scanners and automated lift. Document Delivery/EDD fulfillment - Interpret and fulfill document delivery requests after retrieval. Using instructions provided by requestor or library, identify chapter, section or page sequence to be processed. Digitize pages using flatbed, overhead or microfilm scanners. The request is transmitted to the requestor's email address via scan software.