Interlibrary Loan/Reserves Assistant, Main

General Information

Position Number: 900140

Department or Office: Library & Information Services

Level: Level A (General)

Responsibilities

• ILL Borrowing: Process incoming mail and electronic articles, updating ILLiad records and preparing items for mailing.
• ILL Lending: Search location of incoming lending requests, retrieve journals for scanning, process and update ILLiad and OCLC computer records, and electronically send articles via ARIEL.
• Reserves: Process materials including scanning documents and creating .pdf files.

The Interlibrary Loan/Reserves department is looking for highly committed students who work independently, cooperatively, thoughtfully, and with scrupulous attention to detail. Interlibrary Loan/Reserve student assistants routinely use up to six software systems in the course of their daily work, including OCLC Resource Sharing, ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan Database), Ariel (for sending and receiving journal articles), the new Library Catalog: Millennium, Docutek (for managing electronic reserves), and ECopy (for editing electronic files). Students must be willing to learn a variety of programs and tasks.

Commitment to schedule required. Applicant must agree to maintain work schedule through the academic semester, including the exam period.