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
There are currently no open positions in the libraries. Please check back at a later date, or visit Careers at Smith College.