Serials Coordinator - East Falls, Full Time

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Job Description

Essential Functions

• Interacts with co-workers, visitors, and other staff consistent with the values of Jefferson.
• Responsible for serials acquisition and receiving activities (including check-in, usage statistics, binding for print subscriptions, purchase suggestions, and claiming or other vendor communications) for the electronic integrity of the serials holding list.
• Executes and updates workflows to manage metadata for large-scale journal collection subscriptions in collaboration with the collection management team.
• Maintains physical serials collection (including organizing, cleaning, and weeding schedules) to ensure accessibility and relevance to patrons.
• Performs regular shifts at the Reference Desk, answering basic reference questions and directing queries as needed.
• Promotes and encourages Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the workplace and throughout the library collection.
• Other duties as assigned or desired in accordance with education and experience. For example, develop and/or support library programming.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required):

• Ability to direct workflow to student workers and other staff who assist in all phases of serials maintenance and distribution.
• Ability to answer or redirect patron questions about the serials collection and provide support to circulation staff when new serials policies are enacted.
• Ability to perform copycataloging for serials materials with the option to expand into other collections.

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree or a minimum of two years' experience in a library required

AND

Experience:

• Familiarity with Ex Libris' Web-based integrated library system Alma is desired
• One year's experience working with serials materials in a library setting preferred

Additional Information

• Customer service experience preferred.
• Good attention to detail, accurate record keeping, and the ability to organize daily activities required.
• Ability to learn and work with various computer applications required.

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Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.