Catalog library assistant vs library clerk

Differences between catalog library assistant and library clerk duties and responsibilities

Catalog library assistant example responsibilities.

• Manage database reports for acquisitions, inventory, circulation statistics, and cataloging.
• Search, input, and retrieve information on the OCLC database.
• Develop and revise MARC records for new and existing print materials.
• Process books for circulation, including cataloging and preparation for commercial bindery.
• Manage database reports for acquisitions, inventory, circulation statistics, and cataloging.
• Develop and maintain young adult fiction/nonfiction collection.

Library clerk example responsibilities.

• Issue out DVDs, CD's, and newspapers to library customers.
• Check in and out library merchandise including: books, audio recordings, magazines, and DVDs.
• Perform copy cataloging, subject analysis and assignment of classification numbers.
• Perform regular cataloging of new acquisitions, maintaining accurate data building for microfilm, microfiche, periodicals, and academic collections.
• Collate, and burned documents to CDs for time-sensitive shipment.
• Shelve music books, music scores, CDs, vinyl record albums, and audiobooks.
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