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About Mills College:

Mills College is a nationally respected independent liberal arts college for women with graduate programs for both women and men. Located on 135 lush acres in the foothills of Oakland, California, the College enrolls approximately 961 undergraduate women and 635 graduate women and men. Consistently ranked one of the top colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report and one of the “Best 373 Colleges” by The Princeton Review, Mills provides a dynamic liberal arts education fostering women’s leadership, social responsibility, and creativity.

The Library:

The F. W. Olin Library with its collection of over 275,000 print and electronic titles serves current students, faculty, staff, and alumnae. The Library offers courses in bibliographic instruction and works closely with faculty to enhance students’ use and understanding of library research. The Elinor Raas Heller Rare Book Room in the F. W. Olin Library is home to an extraordinary collection of rare books, manuscripts, and archives.

This position is in the Technical Services Division (Acquisitions & Catalog Departments) and the successful candidate will work under the direction of and will report to the Head of Cataloging. The candidate will also work closely and primarily with the Documents Technical Services Librarian.

Essential Job Responsibilities: The Library Assistant IV provides general support in cataloging, technical services, government documents and acquisitions.

1. Receiving, copy cataloging, and other processing activities relating to all formats of federal government documents as assigned and reviewed by the Documents Technical Services Librarian;
2. Bibliographic searching, copy cataloging, and end processing of monographs in the Catalog Department;
3. Ordering, receiving, and checking-in of library materials and general support in the Acquisitions Department as needed.

Other Responsibilities:

• Special projects as assigned; and,
• Providing assistance in public service (not to exceed 10% of work week).

For more information and to apply, go to www.usfjobs.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=52261 .

Golden Gate University was founded more than 100 years ago in San Francisco and offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business and management, information technology, taxation, and law.

What is one thing your library is very good at?
Practical business research, such as actual businesses do.

Is there something else about your library that most people do not know?
There are two libraries, we’re not the Law Library.

Why did you become a librarian?
The setting: you meet far more interesting people than anywhere else I have worked.

What are your major responsibilities at the library?
I make order out of chaos.

What is it about your job that most people don’t realize that you do?
I make order out of chaos.

What do you like best or worst about your job?
Both: I make order out of chaos.

What was your most memorable experience at work?
At the New York Public Library one day a woman ran towards the reference desk screaming “would somebody please help me!” I ran around from behind the reference desk to come to her aid thinking she was in some life-threatening situation. Then she blurted out a reference question.

What’s one thing about you that few people know?
Once upon a time I wanted to be a violinist until an injury made that impossible.

If someone wrote a book about your life, what would be the title?
Kafka’s Step-son

What do you think will be the biggest change in libraries and information services in the future?
People used to have no choice but to come to us for information. Now we have to go to them or they’ll believe the stuff they find on Google.