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Library Assistant 2

at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job Opening Id: 54203

Department: Law Library
Salary/Grade: NEX/10

Target hiring range for this position will be between $18.42- $23.40 per hour.  Offered salary will be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Job Summary:

The Pritzker Legal Research Center of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law invites applications for the full-time, permanent position of Evening Circulation and Fulfillment Assistant. Located in the heart of the Gold Coast on Northwestern’s Chicago campus, the Pritzker Legal Research Center supports the research and instructional needs of more than 900 J.D. and LL.M. students and 90 residential faculty of the Northwestern University School of Law

The Pritzker Legal Research Center is a highly service-oriented library. We are looking for someone who enjoys building positive working relationships with a wide variety of people ranging from students to peers to faculty members. The successful candidate will join a team of librarians and staff who maintain a very collaborative work environment and will also have the freedom to work independently and must have a strong sense of responsibility and reliability.

Further information about the Pritzker Legal Research Center is available at the library's website 

https://library.law.northwestern.edu/

 

Specific Responsibilities:

Circulation and Access

  • Performs full range of circulation functions including charging and discharging items, processing fines, placing holds, requesting items from other Northwestern libraries, helping patrons search for items. Maintains student lockers. Reports library facilities and maintenance requests to appropriate departments. Supervises students in this capacity as well. 

     

Collection Maintenance

  • Performs full range of duties to maintain physical collection, including shelving, sorting, shifting, shelf reading, reclassifying items, locating missing books, and book repair. Supervises students in this capacity as well.

     

Materials Retrieval and Request Fulfillment 

  • Performs full range of duties related to patron requests including retrieving items from open and closed stacks, processing reserves, document scanning, fulfilling interlibrary loan requests, and delivery of materials. 

     

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    Job Posting: 13629640

    Posted On: Aug 04, 2026

    Updated On: Aug 14, 2026

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