The Ryerson and Burnham Library is currently seeking an assistant who will perform all monograph acquisitions including initiating purchases, payment, and fund accounting, receiving and reconciling invoices to orders, tracking and follow up on back orders, cancellations and returns, and basic vendor relations.
Primary Responsibilities:
· Performs the functions necessary for the acquisition of monographs including searching, ordering, tracking orders and claiming, cancellations, receiving and unpacking shipments, returns.
· Maintains and monitors on-going relations with vendors and reviews selection problems and vendor performance with the Head of Technical Services and the Libraries' Executive Director as needed.
· Maintains accurate vendor and credit memo files, reconciles invoices, inputs invoice data, and forwards invoices to the Library Office for processing and payment.
· Creates and edits Millennium acquisitions records. Systematically reviews and updates records and files as required.
· Processes acknowledged and unacknowledged gifts.
Qualifications:
· Library or office work experience required.
· Educational background in library science, art history or humanities preferred.
· Ability to learn and navigate Libraries' online system essential.
· Working knowledge of at least one western European language required.
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