Depository Circulation Specialist

Job Summary

The Harvard Depository is a customer-focused storage facility housing primarily paper-based library collections and records, located approximately 30 miles west of Boston. Founded by the Harvard University Library in 1986, the Depository provides cost-effective media storage in the best environmental conditions available. The HD staff share a common mission to meet client expectations for service and reliability. 

Additional Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and anti-racism.

• Storage/warehousing experience preferred.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Familiarity with computers and automated inventory systems preferred.

• Facility with standard office software (Microsoft Word and Excel, email, calendaring applications, etc.).

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Competency to perform repetitive tasks with overall accuracy and effectiveness.

• Ability to be flexible and respond positively to fluctuating workflows and changes in routine.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with coworkers and customers.

Job Code

403072 Library Assistant V

Union

55 – Hvd Union Cler & Tech Workers

Pre-Employment Screening

Criminal, Education, Identity

Schedule

40 hours per week, from 10:30 AM to 7:00 PM with two paid 15-minute breaks and a half hour unpaid lunch. Alternatively, the schedule could be set to accommodate an hour unpaid lunch.

Commitment to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Across the Harvard Library, our work is enriched by our diverse campus community. Our unique and wide-ranging abilities, experiences, and perspectives are integral to achieving Harvard University’s mission of excellence in research, teaching, and learning for our patrons, our collections, and our workplace. We believe that an inclusive environment that cultivates and promotes understanding, respect, and collaboration across our diverse workforce enables our success.

We invite individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences and abilities to be a part of our community of over 700 staff members. Our work with faculty, students and researchers to explore answers to intellectual questions, enduring and new, and to seek solutions to the world’s most consequential problems, requires that we not only reflect, but also champion our diverse society.

Harvard Library inspires collaboration, reflection, experimentation, and discovery connecting users to related disciplines and to University-wide teaching resources. The Library engages users through curated discovery, digital collections, reimagined physical space, and specialized research support.  Today, Harvard Library’s holdings range from traditional print collections to rapidly expanding access to digital resources. Harvard Library provides the University’s faculty, students, and researchers—now and in the future—with exceptional experiences and comprehensive access to these materials.

Learn more about our contributions to the academic enterprise by visiting us at http://library.harvard.edu  and about the Harvard University community at http://hr.harvard.edu/why-harvard .

The Harvard Library is a proud member of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance.

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.