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
The Library Circulation Associate serves as a frontline representative of the library, delivering outstanding customer service and support at the service desks. This role primarily involves assisting users with all circulation activities, answering inquiries, and facilitating access to library services and spaces. Additionally, the associate is responsible for supporting course reserves, managing library facilities and space usage, as well as handling security and emergency incidents during assigned shifts. Hiring, training, scheduling, and supervising student employees is also a key responsibility of this position. Apply here.
Electronic Resources Librarian, Journals
As a member of the Electronic Resources and Serials (ERS) team within the Collections and Discovery Services (CDS) Unit, the individual in this position will manage the lifecycle of ongoing electronic and print resources, including journals, journal packages and databases with a particular focus on individual journal subscriptions (both electronic and print) and standing orders. Apply here.
Rare Materials Project Cataloguer
Reporting to the Head of Technical Services for Special Collections and working closely with the Curator of Rare Books, the Rare Books Project Cataloger will create original or copy records for a wide variety of rare and/or unique bibliographic materials in the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, the Sophia Smith Collection, and College Archives. The project cataloger also will improve existing stub records to further facilitate discovery and access. This position may supervise a student worker. This is a limited-term position expected to run for three years from the date of hire and is covered by a collective bargaining unit. Apply here.
User Services Assistant
The User Services Assistant plays a vital role in ensuring seamless access to resources and services for Smith students, faculty, staff, and extended user communities. They are responsible for managing circulation and patron assistance to facilitate efficient use of library services and resources. Apply here.