Library Job Openings

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Full-Time Positions

No openings at this time.

Part-Time Positions

Library Page

 This is a part-time position (average 11-13 hours per week) which will require working a flexible schedule including mornings, afternoons, evenings, and weekends in the Circulation/Outreach Services Department as a Library Page.

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Shelves library materials in correct locations and maintains shelving areas so patrons and staff can locate materials.
  • Straightens shelves, shifts materials and cleans, as needed.
  • Answers directional questions from patrons.
  • Shifts and discards old issues of magazines and newspapers.
  • Searches for materials on shelves as directed.
  • Processing of new materials received in the library.
  • May represent the library at community events.
  • Cooperates as a team member with the library staff in performing any duties essential to the achievement of effective library operations.

Contacts outside of immediate department:

  • Patrons, other departments, schools, community groups.

Physical demands:

  • Must be able to reach, remove, and replace materials on the top shelf of circulating collection of book stacks (84 inches high) and on all shelves below this height.
  • Must be able to push a fully loaded cart weighing up to 200 pounds.
  • Frequent bending, lifting, reaching (including overhead reaching), and carrying objects weighing up to 25 pounds for short distances.
  • Frequent periods of standing.
  • Occasional repetitive motion.

Minimum qualifications:

  • One year of high school required.
  • Ability to express self well in English, both orally and in writing, required.

Salary: $15.00

To apply: Applications are available at the first floor Service Desk and online at: https://www.vppl.info/library-info/library-job-openings/

Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled. Applications may be dropped off at the library, or scanned and emailed to: jobs@vppl.info