Work at the Library

We hire volunteers on an as-needed basis. Download a Library Volunteer Application (PDF)

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and kept on file for 6 months. If you have not heard back from the library after 6 months, please re-submit an application. When a position is open, we will invite candidates based on applications submitted within that time frame. Jobs may open at any time in any department, and the hours may vary.

Library Departments and Related Page Duties

• Children’s Services: We’ll be asking you to put our materials back in their proper place. Accurate and timely shelving is of utmost importance in Children’s. Everything else we do revolves around being able to find materials on the shelves.

• Adult Services: We’ll be asking you to do detail-oriented tasks like pulling particular books from the shelves or inventorying collections by matching books to a list. You may also be asked to update system records, do photocopying, and other various tasks.

• Teen Services: Teen Services needs your help putting books back on shelves, helping keep the teen space orderly, prepping for programs, keeping the teen collection up to date and orderly. Someone good with self-direction, minor computer skills, and a love of books highly desired.

• Circulation Department: In the Circ Department we’re looking for someone who can shelve books, move books, shelf-read and help with other projects as they arise. Accuracy and attention to detail is of utmost importance.

• Technical Services (Materials Processing): The Tech Services Department processes all the materials destined for the shelves at the Robbins and Fox Libraries. We’ll be asking you to add identifying information to our materials (stickers, labels, stamping, etc.) and tape covers, etc. Attention to detail and manual dexterity are essential.

• Fox Branch Library: The Fox Library in East Arlington hires pages to shelve books and generally keep things neat and orderly.