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Acquisitions Student Assistant

  • Category: Work Study
  • Openings: One
  • Position Type: Work Study
  • Posted on: August 21, 2025
  • Open until: Fri, August 29, 2025
  • Work Hours: 10 hours per week between 8:00am and 5:00pm Monday through Friday Blocks of 2 hours desirable
  • Wage: $11 hour
  • Location: Cedar City, UT

Description:

Student Worker must be Work Study Eligible

Resource Sharing student assistants perform numerous procedures associated with processing new physical library materials and gift collections to make them available for in-library services for SUU faculty, staff, students and community members.

Procedures include, but are not limited to:

  • Receiving new and gifted books
  • Recording when items were received
  • Tracking invoices
  • Applying barcodes, stamps, labels, and jackets
  • Searching electronic databases for titles
  • Assisting with book sales
  • Receiving and processing journals

Qualifications:

  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and careful organization highly desirable. Student assistants are provided on-the-job training in the use of the Koha library system.
  • Must be dependable, punctual, self-motivated, detail-oriented, willing to learn, and able to work with or without direct supervision.
  • The requirements listed below include physical abilities required to complete essential duties.
  • Must be able to physically lift and carry boxes of books, approximately 35 lbs.
  • Ability to push and pull book carts.
  • Ability to carefully unpack and sort library materials, distinguish call numbers, and bend and reach books from shelves of differing heights
  • Student Worker must be Work Study Eligible

Please include a cover letter and a copy of your Class Schedule for Fall 2025