Library Assistant at The City of Fort Worth — Salem, USA | Base Career

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Pay Range: $21.26 - $26.57/hr.

Job Posting Closing on: Friday, September 18, 2026 📅

This posting is intended to fill one position at the following location:

La Gran Biblioteca Library- 4200 South Fwy, Suite 1338, Fort Worth, TX 76115 (20 hours per week with partial benefits)

Benefits

for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities.

Workdays & Hours: The 20-hour workweek schedule is below for the La Gran Biblioteca location; Some evening/weekend work required.

Saturday: 11:15am-5:15pm

The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S.

Our employees serve the needs of over 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆

A part-time Library Assistant position is available with the City of Fort Worth’s La Gran Biblioteca, a branch located within the La Gran Plaza de Fort Worth shopping mall.

The ideal candidate is customer-focused, enthusiastic about bringing library services to the community, and comfortable working with diverse populations including people of all ages, backgrounds, dispositions, and abilities.

The part-time Library Assistant is responsible for developing and implementing activities and classes, and providing customer service in English and Spanish.

All applicants must submit a cover letter and resume to be considered for this opportunity.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree
No prior experience is required

Preferred Qualifications

Ability to communicate with customers in Spanish
At least one year of experience working in a library setting
Previous experience developing and presenting programs, workshops, and classes
Ability to work evenings and weekends, including Sundays
Ability to work at/travel to various locations
Ability to work a flexible schedule

The Library Assistant’s job responsibilities include:

Planning and delivering programs, workshops, and classes
Providing friendly, efficient, and professional service to customers, in-person, by telephone, and via email. This includes answering basic reference, reader's advisory, and general usage questions, helping customers locate materials and services of interest, and checking in and out materials
Providing customers with technology assistance and computer training, and assisting customers with self-service equipment and technology
Operating a cash register, conducting customer payment transactions, maintaining a cash drawer
Developing library displays and merchandising materials to showcase the Library’s materials, programs, and special events
Conducting community outreach, including processing new library accounts and replacing library cards at outreach events
Championing the Library’s strategic goals and initiatives

Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, walking and repetitive motions.

Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.

Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

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Conditions of Employment

The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.

The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.

Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires.

Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements.

Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employees are paid by direct deposit only.

Library Assistant

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