Title:                          Library Aide - Middle School   2021-2022-247            

Reports to:                  Building Principal and Librarian

Status:                       Full Time – Hourly - Overtime Eligible

Purpose

Assist Librarians with the tasks required to effectively run a library, such as organizing materials and helping students find resources. Aides who don't work with technical materials might perform a greater amount of clerical office work than those who primarily work with such materials.

Essential Job Duties

• Assists with tasks related to loaning and recollecting library materials.
• Assists students with finding resources for class assignments and helping them register for library cards.
• Help students with materials, inspect returned books for damage and send out due notices for unreturned items.
• May assists students to effectively use the library, answer questions about library services and help teachers locate materials for their classrooms.
• May help plan and advertise special library events, such as book sales or local outreach programs
• May assist Librarian with tasks such as cataloging new arrivals and working with databases may assist with online services.
• Basic communication skills to exchange information, give/receive simple instructions and respond to inquiries; filling out forms; knowledge of grammatical structure, vocabulary for preparing correspondence from rough draft or proofing of completed material; communicates in clear, grammatically correct English.

Knowledge Skills Abilities

 Knowledge of how to operate audiovisual equipment, such as microfiche readers, projectors and copy machines, may also be required.

• Knowledge to analyze situations to define issues and draw conclusions.
• Knowledge of safety practices and procedures.
• Ability to follow oral or written orders from supervisor, and to coordinate work with principal and others.

• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions.

• Ability to read, write and speak English fluently.
• Ability to describe orally or in writing cleaning, maintenance or repair problems as needed
• Ability to be flexible to work with others in a wide variety of circumstances. 
• Ability to work with a diversity of individuals and/or groups and utilize specific, job-related equipment.

• Ability to problem solve to analyze issue.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students, the public, and staff members.
• Ability to maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

• Ability to manage time and responsibilities, adapt to changing work priorities, communicate with diverse groups, maintaining confidentiality, meet deadlines and schedules.
• Ability to schedule activities, meetings, and/or events, gather, collate, and/or classify data and use job-related equipment.
• Ability to set priorities, work as part of a team and work with and manage frequent interruptions.

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of student matters.
• Ability to effectively communicate with students, parents, and staff.
• Ability to perform duties with awareness of all District requirements and Board policies.

• Ability to work outdoors in inclement weather conditions to perform the essential functions of the position.
• Skill in adhering to safety practices.
• Skill in preparing and maintaining accurate records and using pertinent software applications (as required).

Required Qualifications

• Any combination of training, education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school.
• Successful experience working with computers and/or databases.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a library.
• Experience working with Middle School aged students.

Necessary special requirements:

• Montana Driver’s license or the ability to obtain license within three months of hire date.

Physical and Mental Demands and Work Hazards

• Performs routine work.
• Regularly works inside with minimal temperature variations.
• Regularly works outside and exposed to varying temperature extremes.
• Carrying, pushing, and/or pulling; some climbing and balancing; frequent stooping, kneeling, crouching, and/or crawling.
• Significant fine finger dexterity.
• Ability to meet deadlines with severe time constraints.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
• Regularly required to sit, walk and stand.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Required to be able to hear conversations in loud and quiet environments.
• May be required to lift or carry up to 30 – 50 pounds on a regular basis with or without an accommodation to carry or shelve books/materials.
• Guidance and reinforcement are usually available.
• The employee frequently works within time constraints and must maintain attentiveness intensity.
• Frequently involved in interactions which require oral and written communications.
• Exercises flexibility and the ability to shift from one task to another.
• Occasional travel/mobility between schools, or between schools and the Administration office, may be required.
• Effective hearing and speech abilities.
• Work area is generally a hazard free environment.

The duties, physical demands, work-environment characteristics, and mental/motor demands described within this vacancy announcement are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with compliance with the American with Disabilities Act Amendment Act (ADAAA) and is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position.  Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position and additional duties may be assigned.