Library Assistant - Part Time (Youth/Teen Services)

Job Description:

Job Summary:

📚 Library Support Specialist – Part Time (Youth/Teen Services)
Are you passionate about community, learning, and helping others? We’re looking for a customer-focused, detail-oriented team member to join our library team! This role provides support to our Youth and Teen Services, helping us deliver exceptional experiences to patrons every day.
As a Library Support Specialist, you’ll:
✔️ Assist with daily operations and library programs in our Youth and Teen Services
✔️ Provide excellent customer service
✔️ Use your creativity and initiative to improve processes
✔️ Work independently within established library policies
Reporting to a coordinator or manager, you’ll play a key part in making our library a vibrant, welcoming place to learn, explore, and connect.
📌 Ready to start your career in a community-focused, collaborative environment? Apply today and grow with us!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

All employees share components of leadership, management, technical, and team skills to assist in making the City of Largo the community of choice in Tampa Bay.

Leadership

• Demonstrates an understanding and reflection of the City’s mission, vision, and values and a commitment to achieve organizational goals aligned with the City’s strategic plan

• Champions a high performance work culture that encourages and embraces new ideas, develops individuals and welcomes and encourages diverse perspectives

• Articulates strategic and innovative thinking and provides clarity to deliver superior services

• Approaches the job with enthusiasm and curiosity to promote a solutions-oriented work culture

Management

• Effectively manages assignments and priorities to ensure the fulfillment of projects, tasks, and responsibilities

• Follows suggested procedures to assure the highest standards of risk management, employee safety and risk avoidance

Technical (Borrower Services and other divisions)

• Assists patrons in:

  • routine selection and location of library materials

  • basic library services, including responding to inquiries regarding computers, copiers, and related equipment

• Facilitates patron computer literacy with catalog, database and e-resource instruction that includes:

  • computer assistance and troubleshooting

  • internet usage and other online services

  • email accounts

  • downloading documents

  • saving and printing documents and files

  • using office productivity software

  • helping with wireless access

• Monitors computer use policy for compliance

• Answers the telephone and provides general information in response to inquiries

• Checks library materials in and out of the library

• Provides assistance at self check out counter

• Registers patrons for borrower's cards and card renewal; enters patron information

• Handles cash, credit cards and records payment of patron fees and fines

• Directs patrons to specific facilities, subject areas, and titles

• Plans and presents programs and special events both in the library and through outreach efforts

• Enters, updates, accesses, and retrieves data with computer applications

• Uses audio-visual and multimedia equipment and assists patrons with questions about the equipment or use

• Creates promotional materials

• Retrieves items from the book drop and the collection as needed

• Shelves books and other library materials; reads and straightens shelves to maintain alpha and numeric order and appearance

• Prepares carts for shelving

• Attends meetings as required

• Performs basic computer work

Technical (Youth/Teen Services)

• Provides customer service at children's and teen service desks
• Monitors the children's and teen areas to correct behavioral issues
• Creates and maintains engaging and appropriate displays
• Creates fliers or brochures for youth services initiatives
• Assists youth services staff with craft preparation
• Assists with collection maintenance, such as shelving, straightening, and weeding the collection
• Knowledge of, and interest in, youth reading materials and other trends

Team Skills

• Supports honest and transparent decision-making

• Collaborates with all team members in a way that builds upon ideas and takes personal accountability and ownership of projects, roles, and assignments

• Openly exhibits a positive attitude, in words and action, and encourages others to do the same

Performs related work as required.