The Harvard Depository is a customer-focused storage facility housing primarily paper-based library collections and records, located approximately 30 miles west of Boston. Founded by the Harvard University Library in 1986, the Depository provides cost-effective media storage in the best environmental conditions available. The HD staff share a common mission to meet client expectations for service and reliability.

Reporting to the Harvard Depository Manager and working closely with peers in a team setting, this position will be responsible for performing activities that include the following:

• Sizing, sorting, counting, and scanning new items into the Depository database.

• Shelving trays and boxes in warehouse setting.

• Retrieving, sorting, and refiling circulating items at Harvard Depository (HD) and Records Management Services (RMS 2).

• Generating reports and verifying the accuracy of activity.

• Adjusting, labeling, scanning shelves.

• Executing projects of various types, which may include checking inventory, assembling boxes, adjusting shelving units in warehouse, relocating media, as required.

• High school diploma or equivalent and a minimum 2 years of relevant work experience in a production environment.

• Must be able to lift and carry boxes weighing in excess of 40 pounds.

• Ability to operate electric lift equipment to heights of 30 feet required.

• Ability to use a ladder to heights of 10 feet required.

• Ability to work in 50º F. environment for extended periods required.

• Storage/warehousing experience preferred.

• Excellent attendance record, punctuality, reliability, and the ability to work well with others.

• Must have reliable mode of personal transportation to and from the worksite.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills and excellent attention to detail.

• Ability to be flexible and respond positively to fluctuating workflows and changes in routine.

• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with coworkers and customers.

• Competency to perform repetitive tasks with overall accuracy and effectiveness.

• Familiarity with computers and automated inventory systems preferred.

• Familiarity with standard office software (Microsoft Word and Excel, email, calendaring applications, etc.)

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging and antiracism.

• Involves frequent use of desktop and mobile computer keyboard and mouse.

• Requires lifting and carrying bins up to 40 pounds; pushing and maneuvering full book trucks, including moving and shifting these materials between workstations, shelves, book trucks, boxes, and bins.

• Ability to work in 50º F. environment for extended periods required.

• Ability to operate electric lift equipment to heights of 30 feet required.

• Ability to use a ladder to heights of 10 feet required.

• Ability to work in two buildings that will require walking outdoors.

• Requires ability to sit or stand for long periods of time.

• Work is performed in a warehouse environment at 2 campus locations

• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

• May have limited exposure to dust, dirt or mold on books

• Warehouse and production temperature ranges:

  • Production area = 60 – 70 degrees

  • Warehouse = 50 degrees

  • Film vault = 40 degrees

  • Outdoor = seasonal temperatures

• Monday - Friday, 7:00am to 3:30pm with two paid 15-minute breaks and a half hour unpaid lunch. Alternatively, the schedule could be set to accommodate an hour unpaid lunch.

Across the Harvard Library, our work is enriched by our diverse campus community. Our unique and wide-ranging abilities, experiences, and perspectives are integral to achieving Harvard University’s mission of excellence in research, teaching, and learning for our patrons, our collections, and our workplace. We believe that an inclusive environment that cultivates and promotes understanding, respect, and collaboration across our diverse workforce enables our success.

We invite individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences and abilities to be a part of our community of over 700 staff members. Our work with faculty, students and researchers to explore answers to intellectual questions, enduring and new, and to seek solutions to the world’s most consequential problems, requires that we not only reflect, but also champion our diverse society.

Harvard Library inspires collaboration, reflection, experimentation, and discovery connecting users to related disciplines and to University-wide teaching resources. The Library engages users through curated discovery, digital collections, reimagined physical space, and specialized research support. Today, Harvard Library’s holdings range from traditional print collections to rapidly expanding access to digital resources. Harvard Library provides the University's faculty, students, and researchers—now and in the future—with exceptional experiences and comprehensive access to these materials.

Learn more about our contributions to the academic enterprise by visiting us at http://library.harvard.edu and about the Harvard University community at http://hr.harvard.edu/why-harvard.

The Harvard Library is a proud member of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Diversity Alliance.