Position Title: Music Library Student Worker

Department: Music

Advertised Pay: $10.00/hr

Campus Location: Washburn University

Position Summary: Manage the music library to ensure music scores and instruments are properly categorized, organized and stored.

Washburn University is a teaching-focused, student-centered, public institution located in the metropolitan setting of Topeka that has earned national recognition for its high-impact programs for first-generation students. Washburn has a student body of over 5,500 undergraduate, graduate, and law students, a significant and growing number of whom are first-generation and Pell-Grant eligible. The University has created educational pathways for all students to be successful and achieve their educational goals.

Washburn is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a dynamic faculty, staff, and student body and cultivating a robust learning and working environment and curriculum. We employ more than one thousand faculty and staff on our campuses throughout Topeka and strive to offer competitive wages, an excellent benefits program, and a supportive culture and a healthy work/life balance. Washburn seeks to create an environment that reflects our core values for creating positive IMPACT: inclusion, modernization, partnership, achievement, community and transformation. In 2024, Washburn was recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for, according to Great Colleges to Work For® program.

Essential Functions:
Responsible for maintaining about 10 hours per week to:
• Handle requests to check in/out music scores and instruments
• Maintain check in/out procedures and electronic documentation of issued music and instruments
• Shelve returned music materials and instruments, and
• Relay to the department chair instruments that need repair.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of types of instruments.
• Ability to differentiate between ensembles to store scores by category.
• Basic knowledge of Excel, and categorizing and alphabetizing music and instruments.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Ability to work independently, be organized, and provide effective customer service in a courteous manner.

Hourly, Mon-Fri.