Job Description
Youth Services Librarian Position L1 - Mount Pleasant Library
Providence Community Library
Salary: $21.21- 26.94 per hour
Hours: Full-time 37 ½ hrs. per week w/Benefits
Posted: March 4, 2021
Deadline: Applications accepted until the position is filled.
Duties:
Providence Community Library is searching for a Youth Services Librarian to work in a busy, neighborhood library. The Youth Services Librarian plans and implements a comprehensive program of service especially, emergent literacy, to young library users, and may provide professional support to more than one neighborhood library.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to: selecting and purchasing library materials aimed at children and youth, planning, developing, coordinating and executing programs designed to serve children from infants to teens; providing reader’s advisory and reference assistance to parents, teachers and caregivers to develop pre-literacy and literacy skills to children; assisting patrons, particularly children and youth, in researching information on a wide variety of subjects,
developing relationships and programs for and with local schools, early childcare centers, and other youth-serving organizations in the neighborhood; creating a welcoming environment in the children’s area which provides for enjoyable and productive use of library resources.
Qualifications:
MLS from an ALA accredited school. Experience working as a Youth Services Librarian. Spanish speaking is a plus.
Library students who meet the following qualifications are encouraged to apply:
Must be enrolled in an accredited ALA school and must have completed more than half of their program. Library student would be hired as a youth services specialist/librarian in training. Their hourly rate will match the youth services specialist starting hourly rate and will increase to the minimum L-1 hourly rate when degree is earned.
Send resume, cover letter, and three references to:
Maria Melvin, HR Manager, mmelvin@provcomlib.org, (401) 467-2700 x. 1606.
HR Info
Maria Melvin, HR Manager, mmelvin@provcomlib.org, (401) 467-2700 x. 1606.