Library Access Assistant

Centenary College of Louisiana invites applications for a Library Access Assistant. This position offers progressive, hands-on experience in reference services, basic and intermediate systems maintenance, and supervision of student workers, and is intentionally structured to scaffold the growth of individuals who may be new to academic librarianship, providing supported opportunities to develop mastery in core academic library tools and services.

Basic functions include facilitating access to Centenary College's JF Magale Memorial Library for students, faculty, and staff members, with shared responsibility for evening student worker supervision in consultation with librarians. This position is vital to daily library operations with a strong emphasis on customer service and data collection. This is a full-time, 12-month appointment within the division of Academic Affairs, reporting to the Library Director.

Primary duties

The Library Access Assistant

• Facilitates access to Magale Library and its resources for Centenary students, faculty, and staff.
• Serves as primary library officer during hours when librarians are not present.
• Provides coverage of the front desk and performs other library tasks when needed.
• In coordination with librarians, develops and oversees special projects for student workers.
• Plans, schedules, monitors, student worker related jobs when librarians are not present.
• Undergoes training in managing an integrated library services platform, reference work, information literacy instruction, and website management.
• Collaboratively trains and supervises student workers in basic library functions.
• Troubleshoots ILS problems with patron check outs or record data problems.
• Troubleshoots photocopiers, micro-form machines and vending machines.
• Aids in the search for lost books, processing and distribution of gift books and book repairs.
• In addition, the Library Access Assistant will collect, update, and analyze library usage statistics in consultation with the director, and may perform other duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• Interest in and understanding of the value of libraries.
• Good organizational skills.
• Self-motivated work ethic.
• Good communication skills (verbal and written).
• Flexibility and ability to work well in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Work experience at a selective, private, residential, liberal arts college.
• Tutoring or teaching experience.
• Work experience in a library or bookstore.

Centenary College of Louisiana is a selective, residential, national liberal arts college. Centenary's beautiful campus in Shreveport's Highland neighborhood is home to a community of faculty, staff, and students who encourage each other to think critically, care deeply, and achieve more. Centenary is Louisiana's only U.S. News & World Report Top National Liberal Arts College and is ranked as one of Princeton Review's "Best 388 Colleges." The College is located in the Shreveport-Bossier City metroplex in NW Louisiana which boasts a rich cultural heritage and easy access to other major cities in the South.

Centenary offers excellent benefits including comprehensive insurance options, retirement matching, and tuition remission, free on campus benefits including membership to the campus fitness center and entry to all athletic and performance events, and support for professional development.

Centenary College is committed to providing students with a firm foundation in the liberal arts and to the value of civic debate, the integrity of science, and the inherent usefulness of the liberal arts to help students lead lives of meaning. Centenary recognizes that diversity is essential to its goal of providing an educational environment where students explore the unfamiliar, invent new approaches to understanding, and connect their work and lives to the world at large. We thus especially welcome applicants who would add to the College''s diversity of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and cultural backgrounds. Women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities are especially encouraged to apply. EOE.

For full consideration, applications should be submitted by [date]. Applicants should submit a letter of application and resume/curriculum vitae. Candidates who advance in the search will be asked to provide unofficial transcripts and the names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three references.

Official transcripts and a background check are required before a candidate can be hired.

To apply, send application materials to hr@centenary.edu or:

Department of Human Resources

Centenary College of Louisiana

2911 Centenary Boulevard

Shreveport, Louisiana 71104

Email: hr@centenary.edu

Fax: 318.869.5281

Funded in 1825, Centenary college of Louisiana is the oldest chartered liberal arts college west of the Mississippi River and is a member of the Associated College of the South.