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**The City of Wichita is NOT an E-Verify Employer.**
**Distinguishing Features of Work**
Step into a pivotal role at the heart of the City of Wichitas library
system as a part-time **Clerk I in Collection Services**. This position
ensures that library materials are accurately processed, maintained, and
accessible to the public, directly supporting the librarys mission to
educate, inform, and inspire the community. Beyond shelving and
organizing materials, the part-time Clerk I engages with library
patrons, providing exceptional customer service, and maintaining high
standards for collection accuracy and presentation. This role adds value
by ensuring seamless library operations, enabling staff and patrons to
access resources efficiently, and contributing to a welcoming,
organized, and engaging learning environment.
**Responsibilities:**
- Provide courteous and efficient customer service in person and by
phone
- Assist patrons with general library services
- Shelve materials accurately and maintain orderly collections through
regular shelf-reading
- Perform materials handling tasks including sorting, organizing, and
loading carts
- Support general upkeep of the library and assist with special
projects or other duties as assigned
**Qualifications:**
- Strong commitment to customer service
- Competency in using computers
- Attention to detail and ability to work independently and as part of
a team.
**\*\*Posting may close at any time\*\***
**Examples of Work Performed**
- Maintains files of correspondence, forms, reports, and other
materials; files material alphabetically, numerically, or by other
predetermined classification.
- Picks up, sorts and sends out mail; places material in envelops or
packages.
- Assists in proofreading various written materials.
- Repeats computations made by other clerks to check accuracy.
- Performs simple posting to cost, voucher, individual account, or
similar subsidiary records.
- Completes tabulations from records at hand and prepares reports of a
standardized and routine nature.
- Performs simple arithmetic calculations manually or by using a
calculator.
- May deliver materials as required.
- Answers phones and/or receives visitors, providing routine
information, taking messages, and/or routing them to appropriate
personnel.
- For Library positions, assists customers at a service desk and/or
via the telephone, loads library materials on a cart, and arranges
materials on shelves as needed.
- For Fire positions, sets up tables and chairs as required for
meeting/training configurations, provides support to the Storekeeper
in receiving inventory and entering information into appropriate
database. Delivers supplies to appropriate fire stations weekly
using City vehicle for transportation.
- Dependent upon assignment, position may be required to travel to
different work sites throughout the workday. Those positions will
require reliable personal transportation.
- These examples are not intended to be all-inclusive. Other related
duties may be assigned as needed.
**Requirements of Work**
- Ability to deal tactfully and courteously with other employees and
the public
- Ability to learn, within a short period of time, office practices
and procedures
- Ability to write legibly
- Ability to learn clerical assignments and develop skill in the
operation of office machines within a short period of time
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with
associates, and the public
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in
writing
- An employee shall not pose a direct threat to the ealth or safety
of other individuals in the workplace
- Ability to perceive pertinent detail in verbal or tabular materials
- Ability to observe differences in copy, to proofread words and
numbers and avoid perception errors in arithmetic
- Ability to: stand while moving about for up to 8 hours per shift, or
stand stationary for up to 2 hours, on carpet, tile or concrete
flooring; walk while pushing a loaded book cart weighing up to 250
lbs.; reach, bend, stoop, kneel and squat to arrange materials on
shelves; extend arms overhead repetitively to return book, weighing
as much as 10 lbs.; repetitively reach across body while handling up
to 10 lbs.; and frequently lift to shoulder height, up to 50 lbs.
and carry the load up to 5\'
Offers of employment are contingent upon passing a pre-employment
physical, which includes drug screening, and upon satisfactory
evaluation of the results of a criminal record check.
Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws. Please find more
information under the following links:\
Skills:
Calculators, Communication Skills, Concrete, Customer Support/Service, Detail Oriented, File Maintenance, Library and Information Science, Lift/Move 50 Pounds, Machining Operations, Office Equipment, Organizational Skills, Proofreading, Reporting Skills, Shipping/Receiving, Team Player, Telephone Skills, Urban Transportation, Willing to Travel, Writing Skills
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