POSITION: Adult Services Librarian
DEPARTMENT: Georgetown County Library Headquarters (Georgetown Library)
GRADE: Grade 128, with comprehensive benefits
STARTING SALARY: $44,121 to $45,445, depending on experience
General Summary
• The Adult Services Librarian reports to the Associate Director; stationed at the Georgetown Library, the Headquarters of the Georgetown County Library, 405 Cleland Street, Georgetown, South Carolina; works weekdays, evenings, and some weekends; and demonstrates outstanding interpersonal skills
Responsibilities
• Performs duties listed below as essential job functions for which reasonable accommodations will be made; understands that this job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements
Essential Roles
• Supervises Circulation Department, Computer Services Librarian, Custodian, and Courier
• Collaborates with Programming Librarian, Videographer, Digital Librarian, Library Administration and others on special projects
• Provides informational and recreational public library services to a diverse customer base by offering reference assistance, grants guidance, genealogy research, readers’ advisory services, collection development, computer-area supervision, technology instruction, community outreach, high-interest displays and marketing, some adult programming, and other similar duties as required.
• Specializes in Adult and Teen Collection Development at the headquarters library
• Organizes popular-culture programming such as book clubs, poetry slams, bingo, yoga, crafts, musical instrument classes, calligraphy, quilting, indigo dyeing, and so forth
• Coordinates art exhibits by local artists
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Possesses knowledge of current technology, including production software (like the Microsoft Office Suite), online tools, and mobile devices
• Shows the ability to maintain and to expand such technological skills
• Utilizes an excellent command of written and spoken English along with public-relations software like Canva to disseminate information about popular-culture programming
• Has a track record of exhibiting an energetic, active, and outgoing nature in working with a diverse public, including in an instructional role
• Employs standard office equipment to do research, compile statistics, and create reports
• Is able to lift, carry, push, pull, or move objects weighing approximately up to twenty-five pounds
Credentials
• Has an accredited Master’s Degree in Library and Information Studies or an equivalent level of education and experience
• Possesses a valid South Carolina Driver’s License
Please email a cover letter, a resume, and references to Georgetown County Library Director Dwight McInvaill at dmcinvaill@gtcounty.org
