Youth Services Librarian

This Librarian posting is for a Youth Services specialist responsible for childrens programming (including regular story times) and collection development for the Oakley/South Asheville Library as well as regular clerical circulation and reference duties shared by all staff. We are located next door to Oakley Elementary school the Oakley Park and the Murphy Oakley Inclusive Playground. In order to keep the many children who come through our doors engaged with their library and their librarians we offer many passive programming opportunities in addition to scheduled programming.

This is a full-time position with a schedule of Tuesday-Friday 9am-6pm and Saturday 9am-5pm.

Purpose of the position:

The purpose of this position is to perform a variety of functions including staffing customer service desks office support clerical work and activities involved in providing public and technical services in a library environment. Responsible for planning and implementing weekly programming and collection development materials for specialized service areas.

Minimum Education Training and/or Experience (required at time of hire): Masters degree in library science information sciences or a related field; or bachelors degree and two (2) years of experience in a library or related work; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Essential Functions of the position:

• Plan present and manage special events throughout the year including age-appropriate activities clubs paid performers and presentations by community partners and organizations; may collaborate with other entities to coordinate events and activities.
• Manage an annual programming budget to provide events throughout the year including age-appropriate activities clubs paid performers and presentations by community partners and organizations.
• Prepare written and visual promotional materials for flyers press releases and social media posts; Create visual library displays.
• Assist with collection development by researching and ordering new books culling books and reordering damaged materials.
• Provide reference service for a specialized area or collection; assist library users in utilizing a variety of automated and printed sources; may refer complex in-depth subject requests to other professional librarians for additional research.
• Check materials in and out maintain files of materials in circulation maintain reserve lists and hold notices and notify patrons when materials are available for pickup.
• Perform a variety of clerical tasks to include but not limited to answering phones responding to routine information requests assisting patrons in completion of forms assisting with maintenance of records and other related documents typing various forms and memos and filing; Perform cash register transactions for library fines and fees and reconcile cash register receipts with end-of-day proceeds and make bank deposits.
• Attend meetings and participate in community outreach to local organizations through presentations educational activities or oral storytelling.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skills Abilities and Other Abilities:

• Knowledge of library policies procedures and operations.
• Knowledge of applicable functional areas in relation to overall operation of library.
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles of library and information science.
• Ability to use and demonstrate understanding of library applications (internal and external) in a networked environment to record and retrieve information.
• Ability to prepare and communicate routine information about assigned functional areas.
• Ability to listen and respond appropriately to non-routine inquiries about services offered supplementary resources or other relevant information.
• Ability to develop basic instructional materials/finding aids that effectively communicate library practices and technical terminology to facilitate staff and patron use of library technology resources and facilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively via a variety of means to a variety of audiences and audience sizes (one-on-one and with groups)

In order to uphold internal pay parity and equity salaries are non-negotiable for new and current Buncombe County employees. All new employees are paid according to their years of relevant education and experience above minimum requirements for the position and employees have the opportunity to obtain pay increases via cost of living increases and promotions.

Buncombe County Government realizes the importance of a diverse professional workforce and the need to foster a responsive and innovative organizational culture one that fully engages all of our employees honoring and building on each employees unique experiences opinions and perspective.

It is the policy of Buncombe County to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all persons regardless of race natural hair or hairstyles ethnicity creed color sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin or ancestry marital or familial status pregnancy veteran status religious belief or non-belief age or disability or any other legally protected class under federal or NC State law. EEO practices and employment decisions regarding recruitment hiring assignment promotion and compensation shall not be based on any of these protected classes. In addition the County expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination.