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Student Jobs in the MIT Libraries

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General information:

These jobs will provide an opportunity to learn new skills - how to:

  • prepare and bind books
  • work with people or independently
  • assist in diverse media applications
  • use various computer and bibliographic applications
  • handle archival materials
  • work with maps
  • provide information to patrons from all over the world

Many evening and weekend hours available. (Note: the Libraries are open most holidays and during IAP.) Competitive hourly rates.

Job Categories:

Circulation | Technical Processing | Stacking

Circulation:

  • Online and manual check-in/check-out of material from the library.
  • Renewals, filing, etc.
  • Working with patrons in person and over the telephone.
  • Searching for lost material

Technical Processing:

All activities and processes concerned with obtaining, organizing, and processing library materials, including

  • acquisitions, cataloging, physical processing, organizing and maintaining files or databases,
  • picking up material from bookstores,
  • assisting with special computer projects,
  • maintaining departmental webpages,
  • bibliographic searching.

Stacking:

Returning used library materials to their places including books, journals, maps, slides, photographs, microfilm, microfiche, newspapers, technical reports and documents.

If interested in a Library position, contact:

Library/Department

Name

Contact

Room #

Acquisitions & Licensing Services, 14E-210A

Charlene Follett
or Laura Lucero

617.258.5427,
617.253.7378

14E-210A

Aero/Astro Library

Barbara Williams

aero-lib@mit.edu
617.253.5665

33-111

Barker Engineering Library

Roshni Gohil (Circulation)
Maria Rodrigues (Processing)

617.253.2283
617.253.6724

10-500

Cataloging and Metadata Services (CAMS)

Michelle Miller

617.253.6736

14E-210B

Dewey Library

Irene Mazor (Circulation)
Amy Martin (Processing)

617.253.2722
617.253.7133

E53-100

Document Services

Christine Quirion

617.253.5667

14-0551

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Lisa Sweeney

617.258.5598

7-238

Gifts Office

Charlene Follett
Laura Lucero

617.258.5427
617.253.7378

14E-210A

Hayden Access Services

Patrick Page,
Greg Padilla

617.258.7457
617.253.5671

14S-100

Humanities Library

Laura Andersen (Processing)

617.253.9351

14S-200

Institute Archives

Liz Andrews,
Sylvia Mejia

617.253.4323,
617.258.5568

14N-118

Lewis Music Library (job details)

Cate Gallivan

617.253.7389

14E-109

Lindgren Library

Joe Hankins

617.253.9325

54-200

Library Storage Annex

Melissa Feiden

617.253.7040

N57-200

Rotch Library

Kevin Sheehan (Circulation)
Jonah Jenkins (Processing)


617.253.1837
617.258.5588

7-238

Rotch Visual Collections

Jonah Jenkins

617.258.5588

7-304

Science Library

Maria Rodrigues
Matt Sikorski

617.253.6724,
617.253.1294

14S-134

 

 
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