Library Assistant II - Circulation job at City of Rogers, Arkansas in Rogers, AR
LIBRARY: Library Assistant II (Part-Time) - Circulation Positions Available: Library Assistant II (P/T)-24 hours per week in the Circulation department GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF POSITION Provides information and service to reputed company library patrons. Applies library techniques and procedures. Must become familiar with modules of the library automation system. Responsible for reputed company aspects of daily circulation, including but not limited to: checking in and out library materials; entry and editing of patron information in the patron database and the associated tasks including verifying residency, proper identification, and reputed company contact information; accepting and entering payment for overdue, damaged and/or lost material fees, and non-reputed company fees in the library database. Shelves materials, empties book returns, processes holds and interlibrary loans. Follows procedures determined by the State of Arkansas for voter registration. 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Activities with slight variation using a definite set of processes or directions with some degree of supervision. Choice of learned things in situations which conform to clearly established patterns and modes. RESPONSIBILITY FOR WORK OF OTHERS Responsibility for work of others: Not indicated. RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT Regularly responsible for property where carelessness or error would result in only minor damage or minor monetary loss. Almost reputed company care and attention is required reputed company handling this property in order to prevent loss. ACCURACY Probable errors of internal scope should ordinarily be detected reputed company the department or office in which they occur, but may reputed company the work of others reputed company the unit, requiring additional expenditure of time to trace errors and reputed company reputed company necessary corrections. Errors would require a moderate amount of time to correct. 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