Library Assistant
Khalifa City Womens College
Total years of experience :23 years, 7 Months
• Provides customer service to students and staff within the Library, which includes answering queries, supporting users with online databases and other electronic content.
• Provides basic reference assistance with commonly used reference tools and refers advanced questions to professional library staff.
• Assists students and faculty in the operation of Library computers and software, photocopiers and printers, providing basic maintenance on equipment as required.
• Completes library transactions using the integrated library system, including checking materials in/out; maintaining user records; completing inter-college loan transactions; collects fees and charges for lost & damaged items.
• Maintains library facilities and materials by tidying library shelves and study spaces, and by following proper storage and disposal procedures; liaises with Facilities staff to ensure that public areas within the department are presentable at all times.
• Placing orders on Coutts and Overdrive.
• Providing reference help to students.
• Maintaining the new arrival shelves and monthly display shelves.
• Shelves and maintains library resources including books, audio-visual materials, CD-ROMs, newspapers, periodicals, kits, and teachers' resources
• Utilizes the integrated library system to accomplish tasks. Answer phone, email, and in-person questions related to general directions and information, location and status of library materials and services.
• Maintains inventory of library supplies
• Records daily statistics and prepares monthly circulation & financial reports.
• Supervising the work of the student volunteers and providing feedback.
• Performs other related duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
• Played an active role in the e-textbook project. Assisted in the purchase & distribution of e-textbooks for Foundation courses for AY 2012 - 2013. Assisted the Academic Deans in updating the courses with e-textbooks for AY 2013 - 2014.
• Assisted in the development and maintenance of the COURSE RESOURCE SYSTEM for system wide textbook acquisitions.
• Training the Curriculum Resource Coordinators & Library Technicians at all the HCT campuses in using the newly developed software.
• Advising HCT staff on procedures involved in textbook online ordering process.
• Assists in preparing documentation for tender process, maintaining budget records and expenditure.
• Ordering, receiving, and distributing textbooks, softwares and related instructional materials.
• Maintaining textbook files and statistics.
• Liaising with the suppliers, colleges and ACS staff to provide timely information about textbook deliveries and shipments.
• Processing invoices and providing reports as required.
• Organizing textbook inventories, shipments and the disposal of outdated items.
• Assisting in receiving library materials and processing invoices using acquisition module of MILLENIUM library software.
• Assisting in copy cataloguing items in the cataloguing module of MILLENIUM library software.
• Receiving and distribution of Serials to the colleges using the MILLENIUM library software in the absence of Serials Technician.
• Receiving all types of library materials for all the campuses and processing the invoices.
• Adding items to the Microcat Horizon system.
• Making call no. labels.
• Assisting the librarian in various other duties
Bachelor of library and information science
Bachelor of education
Bachelor of Science