Shelving Facility Assistant (LOAII) / RECAP

Job description

Overview The Research Collections & Preservation Consortium (ReCAP) seeks a Shelving Facility Assistant , a dependable and energetic individual to help process and maintain library materials in its high-density shelving facility. Library items sent to the ReCAP facility are sorted, shelved, scanned, retrieved and refiled for each of its member institutions. The individual will be part of a team that rotates responsibilities on a daily basis. ReCAP is a partnership of Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Yale University and The New York Public Library. The ReCAP facility encompasses eight shelving modules, a cold storage film vault, and a 25,000 square foot processing center. The facility resides on the Forrestal Campus of Princeton University in Plainsboro, NJ, and its current holdings of over 18 million items makes it the largest preservation repository in North America under one roof. ReCAP adds more than 450,000 items annually, and fulfills over 200,000 physical and 20,000 scan requests per year on behalf of, its partners. At ReCAP, the duties of the Shelving Facility Assistant will revolve around different aspects of two core functions: accession incom...