• Check stacks, booktrucks and shelves for items (call numbers, streamers) and pull materials
• Open shipments of books
• Type labels, bindery slips, and miscellaneous forms
• Property stamp, tattle tape and bar code library materials
• Sensitize and desensitize library materials using book detection equipment
• Mark and tape reserve materials
• Gather, arrange by date and pack newspapers for microfilming
• Check quality and completeness of microfilm that is produced by library
• Verify that serial volumes are complete (make sure that there are no missing issues) prior to binding
• Pack, unpack and sort library materials for US mail, inter and intra campus mail and bindery shipments
• Match slips and flag library materials for approvals and bindery shipments
• Change codes in INNOPAC record per supervisor's instructions
• Perform tack or pam-binding on library materials under close supervision
• Truck material and push heavy trucks - limited duration of physical exertion (must be less than 50% of student's daily work)
• Pack, stamp and load bindery boxes
• Shelve library material in call number order
• Refile maps and documents
• Shift library materials
• Log new receipts in Documents manual records
• Make photocopies
• Match and verify headings and forward unmatched items for review
• Perform simple search for bibliographic copy using OCLC, MELVYL, INNOPAC, forwarding any discrepancies to supervisor
• Create item records using INNOPAC, with review by higher level staff
• Export designated records from OCLC to INNOPAC
• Duplicate, collate, staple, route materials
• Open and sort mail and prepare outgoing mail
• Answer phone, transfer to appropriate staff or take messages
• Gather sort and reshelve materials in appropriate order and recognize discrepancies
• Notify supervisor of overcrowded shelves and damaged materials
• Shelf-read collection
• Sort cleared materials for distribution
• Accept on-line search requests and place holds
• Accept reservations for group study rooms
• Accept reservations for reserves materials
• Accept reservations for equipment
• Assist with opening/closing procedures including repositioning furniture, lights, etc.
• Assist in clearing building of library patrons at closing or during building evacuations and alert supervisor of problems
• Provide directional information about the facility and campus
• Refer questions about collections
• Dust and clean equipment, collections and furniture
• Load tapes, etc. into playback equipment for patron use and refer equipment malfunctions to supervisor
• Assist patrons with loading microforms into reader/printers
• Alert supervisor or security staff to security problems
• Remove books and bins and sort for distribution
• Lift full bins, stack on dollies and push dollies to destinations
• Load and unload mail bins to and from Library vehicles
• Count and record data
• Measure Library collections and furniture dimension
• Replace newspapers on rods daily
• Replace popular periodicals in plastic binders
• Operate INNOPAC printers and replace printer paper
• Files letters, memos, invoices, statements and library privilege card applications in alphabetical or numerical order
• Type forms
• Pick up and deliver documents around campus
• Perform simple data entry

For Special Collections Library:

• Page and shelve materials requested by researchers following ALA filing rules and LC classification schemes [minimal]
• Make xerox copies to fill photoduplication requests submitted by researchers [minimal]
• Perform preservation photocopying, remove metal fasteners, flatten and clean documents as directed [minimal]
• Prepare housing for materials, including sleeving photographic negatives, preparing folders and boxes to house manuscript materials, and providing mylar encapsulations for select materials [minimal]
• Understand and follow established guidelines for sorting, arranging, listing and describing personal papers and archival records, including (this task can be found also in the Assistant III classification depending on the tasks, and the level of the responsibilities):

       - Create preliminary inventories and container lists for manuscript
             accessions using WordPerfect [minimal]
  
       - Transcribe accurate folder headings following prescribed format
             style [minimal]
  
       - Input text of registers, including narrative descriptions and
             container lists, and edit these text files using WordPerfect [minimal]
  

• Identify accurate publication title and office of origin [minimal]
• File incoming publications, adding folders and updating folder headings as needed [minimal]
• Assist supervisor in obtaining missing issues and undertaking other serials control projects [close]
• Prepare shipments of Archive copies to SRLF, including updating records and packing materials [minimal]
• Perform basic preservation assessments and identify bindings in need of attention applying established criteria for assessing condition [minimal]
• Prepare housing for materials requiring special protection either by selecting appropriate enclosures or by constructing paperboard cases; measure and provide specifications for phase boxes [minimal]
• Provide for the physical maintenance and accessibility of shelved materials by shelf-reading collections by call number, LC filing rules or in-house classification schemes; by shifting and rearranging shelved materials; by identifying and correcting shelving errors through independent initiative; by providing stacks signage [minimal]
• Search for missing books following established procedures [minimal]
• Create acquisitions lists for large gifts using WordPerfect, identifying essential bibliographic elements and using accepted bibliographic style [minimal]
• Analyze bibliographic records to identify appropriate elements for use in labeling a wide variety or rare book materials; type streamers, mark books and label special housing for rare books accurately following established labeling procedures [minimal]
• Shelve newly processed materials [minimal]
• File cards following various filing rules, and interpret main entries to locate and purge temp slips in the department's card catalogs [minimal]
• Perform on-line (INNOPAC, OCLC) and manual (card catalog) editing tasks as assigned, including "clean-up" projects to improve data for location codes, item records, and withdrawals [minimal to close]
• Edit and append data in data base management systems; print reports and mailing lists [minimal]
• Assist in preparation of bulk mailings [minimal]
• Assist in maintaining ledger of receipts and in preparing deposits [minimal]
• Assist in filing, in answering the phone, and in other office duties as needed [minimal]

Current Periodicals, Newspapers and Microforms:

• Charges, discharges and renews library materials using manual system (CPNM)
• Adds paper to microprinters (CPNM)
• Assists patrons in budget copying of microprint material including completely filling out recharge forms (CPNM)
• Offers directional & referral assistance in Map Collection (NOT Reference) (CPNM)

Documents Collection Student Assistants:

• Stamping, counting, and filing Microfiche
• Inserting loose-leaf updates
• Searching for missing materials
• Sorting, stamping, filing (and removing superseded Assembly/Senate Bills, etc.)
• Shelving Latest in Reference/Retain Latest Only documents and pulling previous volumes
• Typing title/call number labels
• Performing light book mending
• Re-filing used microforms
• Shifting microfiche sets in cabinets as needed