Hiring Summer Library Assistant for 2026

Now accepting applications for:
SUMMER LIBRARY ASSISTANT, MULTI-DEPARTMENT open until June 5th.

• Start Monday June 15th, End Friday, August 7th
• $16/hour
• No sick or vacation benefits

Please send résumé and letter of interest to: Amanda Reynolds Cooper (acooper@hampton.lib.nh.us)

A successful candidate will have:

• High school diploma or GED, preferred
• Outstanding customer service skills
• High degree of familiarity with computers
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Necessary to work well with others, both at the Library and in other Town Departments
• Broad knowledge of fiction genres and authors
• Library experience preferred

A Summer Library Assistant will perform any of the following general and specialized desk duties when necessary and other duties as requested. A standard background check will be required.

General Desk Duties

• Follow Lane Memorial Library General and Personnel policies
• Assist with opening and closing building
• Empty book drop
• Greet library users
• Answer telephone and route calls to individual staff members
• Maintain circulation records including check-outs and check-ins
• Update and process fees
• Collect payment for a variety of library services and Friends of the Library events
• Place and retrieve reserves
• Maintain collection of library materials, shelving returned items in their proper places
• Perform circulation desk duties alone as needed
• Register new patrons
• Support and communicate library policies and procedures to library users
• Assist library users with use of the PAC, photocopier, and computer terminals
• Accept inter-library loan requests and new materials requests
• Maintain circulation desk areas to provide a convenient and safe work area
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Keep abreast of any changes and updated information

Specialized Duties

• Manage and publicize programming, including story times, performances, and special events
• Assist with management of annual Summer Reading Program
• Assist with the presentation of regular season, holiday, or special event displays in the Children’s Room (including holiday book carts)
• Process new items for circulation (books, CDs, DVDs, puzzles, puppets, etc.)
• Crafts: planning, coordinating, producing
• Plan/change announcements for outside sign
• Assist patrons with research and reference questions in the Children’s area
• Maintain appearance and organization of the library, including tidying furniture, toys, puppets, puzzles, etc.

Physical requirements

• Stand and work at a service desk for up to 4 hours per day
• Reach up to high shelves (possibly using a stool) or down to lowest shelves (possibly kneeling)
• Lift and sort up to 30 pounds of library materials
• Maneuver a full book cart through the library stacks
• Read a computer screen at arm’s length
• Listen and respond clearly to inquiries from patrons in the library as well as on the telephone
• Work outdoors; often in high heat and performing physically strenuous activities