Employment Opportunities
Student Jobs
The Libraries employ students in a variety of jobs, providing valuable work experience and connections. Students may not work at their campus job more than ten hours per week, but may hold more than one on-campus position to meet this allowance. Students with "Federal Work-Study" or "Smith Campus Job" in their award notification have priority for all jobs on campus.
To see current student library job openings, log in to WorkDay and follow these instructions from the Student Employment Office.
Examples
The following are examples of the type of work performed by student assistants at the Smith College Libraries.
The Libraries employ students in a variety of jobs, providing valuable work experience and connections. Students may not work at their campus job more than ten hours per week, but may hold more than one on-campus position to meet this allowance. Students with "Federal Work-Study" or "Smith Campus Job" in their award notification have priority for all jobs on campus.
To see current student library job openings, log in to WorkDay and follow these instructions from the Student Employment Office.
Examples
The following are examples of the type of work performed by student assistants at the Smith College Libraries.
Donor Communications Assistant: Gather up-to-date contact information from Sophia Smith Collection (SSC) donors through letters and emails. Ensure that governing access notes in ArchivesSpace agree with the legal agreements governing the collection.
Outreach Assistant: Serve as an advisor on projects for the First Years’ Experience & Engagement Librarian and for the Libraries’ Teaching, Learning, & Research (TLR) unit. Projects may include working on Libraries outreach and marketing materials, assisting with the organization of orientation events, and more.
Student Library Assistant: Help library users check materials out, check in returned materials, greet visitors, answer basic questions.
Public Services Assistant: work in the Steinem Reading room of Special Collections as a materials page or welcome desk assistant. Conduct research for and respond to distance reference inquiries. Conduct digitization for unique and rare materials for the widest possible access.
Technical Services Assistant: Work with unique and rare archival and rare books materials as part of the back-end lifecycle of collection management. Includes collection inventories, stabilization, processing, and creating finding aids.
Digital Access Assistant: Support class materials requests and distance reference during Covid restrictions. Process scans, check quality, and ensure accessibility of materials prior to their being delivered to requesters or posted on our online repositories.
Library Collections Assistant: Help maintain access to the Libraries’ collections by arriving print books and journals, editing records in the library catalog, data entry for eJournals, online databases, and receiving and processing new book orders.
Mortimer Rare Books Collection Student Assistant: Assist the rare books technical services librarian in inventorying a portion of the Mortimer Rare Books Collection’s Dewey collection, as well as flagging and shelving newly cataloged books.
Reference Services Assistant: Support Special Collections reference by looking through the collections to answer research questions and evaluating materials in preparation for digitization.
Library Staff Positions
Circulation Associate
Responsible for circulation billing functions, provide check-out, books, reserves, videos, and equipment services at a busy main desk. As first point of contact for students, staff, and faculty using Neilson Library and other campus visitors, provide information and referral within the Libraries and across campus. Provides operations and customer service backup at service desk and supervises student workers. Learn more & apply here.
Curator of Rare Books
he Curator of Rare Books is one of three stewards within the dynamic department of Smith College Special Collections. As a steward, the curator will oversee the Mortimer Rare Book Collection including, but not limited to, all collection development - acquisition by gift and purchase - as well as teaching and instruction across the Five College Consortium. Learn more & apply here.
Data & Social Sciences Librarian
The Data & Social Sciences Librarian acts as a resource for the information needs of students, staff, and faculty in assigned subject areas and on issues related to quantitative and qualitative data sources, including their availability, structure, and best practices for working with large data sets. Learn more & apply here.