Nevada State Library, Archives & Public Records (NSLAPR)

Volunteer Job Description - Book Wrangler

General Description: Volunteers assist with rounding up books and keeping them in order

Benefits of Volunteering:

• Chance to meet new people
• To work in pleasant surroundings
• To develop new skills
• Give something back to the community
• Share your talents
• Feel needed and valued
• Satisfaction from accomplishment

Duties and Responsibilities:

• 18 years of age or older
• Shelve books according to call number and location
• Verify books on the shelves are in the correct order
• Straighten, shift and arrange items in order on the shelves
• Locate items requested by patrons or library staff
• Physically process books by stamping, tattle taping, affixing call number labels, and adding dust jackets
• Repairing damaged books
• Shelving periodicals in alphabetical order by title
• Shifting older periodicals from the periodical display to shelving
• Deaccessioning older periodical issues when microfilm replaces it or according to the schedule established by library policy

Required Qualifications:

• Attention to detail
• Ability to alphabetize and put items in numerical order
• Physical ability to push book carts, bend, stretch, reach, lift, and read book spines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Availability to work 1 - 3 hours at a time, 2+ days a week

Volunteer reports to:

• Depends on collection