St. Paul Campus Library Reference Graduate Assistant

Position Description | Contact Information | Deadline | Application

Position Description

The College of St. Catherine St. Paul Library is located in the Coeur de Catherine Student Center and Learning Commons. The Library’s collection includes over 217,000 volumes and 846 current journals, in addition to a variety of online sources including access to over 10,000 full-text periodicals. The St. Paul Library services undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in day, evening and weekend programs as well as faculty, staff, and members of the community. The Reference Assistant will be mentored by and work alongside any of the four professional Reference Librarians at the St. Paul campus. The Assistant may also work with other staff members of the Circulation Department, the Technical Services Department, and Media Services Department, in addition to working with other student employees. This position may require evening and weekend work as assigned.

Requirements for all positions

Additional qualifications:

• Completion of additional LIS courses, especially those that provide background and knowledge useful to the position (web skills, reference, instruction, etc.)
• Flexible schedule and availability
• Technical, computer, and web authoring (Dreamweaver or similar) skills and/or experience
• Experience and comfort in teaching, training, and/or public speaking
• Interest in academic librarianship
• Experience in customer service
• Enthusiastic, willing to learn, good listening and communication skills

Primary responsibilities:

The Reference Assistant will work with the reference librarians to provide reference service throughout the semester. Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Assisting students, faculty, staff, and community users with reference and research needs
• Assisting with library instruction, both one-on-one and formal classroom settings
• Creating pathfinders, web pages, guides, tutorials

Contact Information

Application Deadline

Watch for info about our Spring 2009 opening.

Application

Submit the following to Jim Newsome < jmnewsome@stkate.edu > or mailstop #4128, 2004 Randolph Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105.

• Resume
• Current CSC grade report
• One academic or work reference
• Questionnaire (see below)

Answer (briefly) the following questions:
1. What interests you about this graduate assistantship?
2. What experience, qualities and strengths would you bring to the assistantship?
3. What goals would you like to accomplish as part of this assistantship?
4. In an average week, what days/times are you available to work?