Library Associate - Children's Associate
: Job Details :

The Judy Z. Kishner Library offers a variety of activities available to families during regular library hours, Build A Reader storytimes to mini-Maker Space in the Teen Lounge, available every Thursday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. The Library Children's Associate welcomes customers and ensures that all have an extraordinary experience that supports their needs while educating, training, suggesting, and answering technology, mobile device, e-reader, reference and readers' advisory questions; proactively connects customers with services and assists customers in the discovery of all services TCCL offers, including with on-call professional staff in the branch and system-wide; provides reference assistance and readers' advisory services for children, their caregivers and educators; assists with physical maintenance of the children's collection; develops and implements children's programs; looks for ways to improve workflow and anticipate customer needs and trends. Children's Library Associate Location: Judy Z. Kishner Library - 10150 N. Cincinnati Ave. E. Sperry, OK. 74073 Salary: $21.10/hr. Status: Part time - 20 hour/week Schedule: Tuesday 12:00pm - 8:00pm Wednesday 10:00am - 2:00pm Friday 10 am - 6 pm Some rotating weekends. Essential Functions:

• Prepares and presents weekly Build a Reader story times;
• Prepares and presents programs for children;
• Performs periodic school visits throughout the year;
• Helps develop and maintain the children's collection at this library;
• Conducts community outreach, which may include services to schools, day care facilities, and community organizations; ensure all tasks are being performed consistently and with the best practices;
• May serve as Person in Charge of the location as needed; directing tasks of Customer Service Assistants, Shelvers and volunteers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• No previous experience required; library, retail, or customer service experience preferred.

• Work occasionally requires stooping and bending. Occasional light lifting such as three or four reams of paper, four or five books, or other materials (up to 20 pounds) may be required.
• There are usually no major sources of discomfort; work is essentially conducted in a normal office environment with acceptable lighting, temperature, and air conditions.