Title: Librarian III: Southern Maine Library District Consultant, Maine State Library

Duties: The Maine State Library (MSL) is dedicated to serving the information needs of all Maine citizens and to the support of all Maine libraries.

MSL has a vacancy for the Southern Maine District Consultant. This office is located at the Portland Public Library in Portland, ME and requires state-wide travel.

This is professional library work providing advisory and consulting services to Cumberland, York and selected Oxford county towns (Brownfield, Denmark, Fryeburg, and Lovell) in southern Maine.
These services include:

• giving professional advice regarding collection management as well as assistance with the development of library policies and personnel issues to public, school, academic, and special librarians, as well as library trustees and Friends of Libraries Groups;
• offering continuing education opportunities for professional growth to librarians;
• providing direction and organization management for both the District and its Executive Board;
• working closely with the other Regional District Consultants to plan statewide programs and expand information access and library resource sharing.

District Consultants report to the Director of Library Development

Qualifications: The minimum education/experience requirement for this position is a Masters Degree in Library Science (or the equivalent in directly related education and/or professional library work experience) and two (2) years of professional library work experience (a total of 8 years combination of education and/or experience is required). Preference will be given to those candidates who have experience conducting library related workshops at a regional meetings and library conferences and who have served on regional or state committees

Closing Date: August 12, 2011

Salary: ($39,457.60-$53,580.80); Code: 3113 Pay Grade 25

Address: Qualified candidates should send resumé, direct hire application, and letter of interest to:

Julie Cotnoir, Personnel Officer
Division of Financial and Personnel Services
74 State House Station
Augusta, Maine, 04333
Telephone (207) 624-7417.

Direct Hire applications are available at the Division of Financial and Personnel Services in Augusta, all Maine Career Center Offices, and on the DFPS Web Page. Please specify the complete job title on your application.

Web Site: http://www.maine.gov/msl/index.shtml

Source: Employer issued job notice, 08/02/2011 

Title: Customer Service Technician,  Merrimack Valley Library Consortium, Massachusetts

Duties: The Merrimack Valley Library Consortium is looking for a service-oriented individual with excellent trouble-shooting, interpersonal, and communication skills. This is a temporary (9 m.) position that will focus on providing customer support to member library staff. This person will be the primary helpdesk contact and will also have significant responsibility for the design and configuration of the public catalog and network Web sites. There is potential for this to become a permanent position.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Proven customer service orientation
• At least two years technical experience with automated systems or databases
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and other Web services tools
• Substantial knowledge of PC environment
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Desired:

• Library experience desired
• Understanding of User Interface design
• Database design (SQL)
• Linux experience
• Program languages such as Perl, Python, etc.

Closing Date: Open until Filled. 

Salary: 30 hours per at 22.17 hr

Address:

Lawrence Rungren
1600 Osgood Street
North Andover, MA 01845
lrungren@mvlc.org

Web Site: http://www.mvlc.org/

Source: Employer issued job notice, 08/02/2011

Title: Customer Service Bibliographer, YBP Library Services, Contoocook

Duties: Provide support services to assigned library customers, primarily by responding to written and telephone inquiries; researching and addressing any problems and communicating all of YBP service capabilities, including firm and continuations orders and approval processes. For assigned list of customers, serve as primary service contact on the phone, in writing and in person. Communicate service information regarding customer accounts to Sales, Marketing, Operations, etc.

Qualifications: Excellent PC skills. Ability to work on the AS400. Knowledge of Word, Excel and Access. Telephone and e-mail business manners. Strong service-orientation and skills. Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including the ability to do presentations. Ability to conduct meetings. Broad understanding of LC, Dewey and NLM classifications. Ability to analyze approval plan performance, identify problems, suggest remedies and solutions. Fluency in a foreign language.

Closing Date: 09/01/2011

Salary: Based on experience

Address:

YBP Library Services
999 Maple Street
Contoocook, NH 03229

Web Site: http://www.baker-taylor.com/

Source: Employer issued job notice, 07/06/2011