Jobs

Posted 1 February 2012

Library Director
Eagle Public Library

Deadline: 'open until filled'

A picturesque city of 20,000 along the Boise River and ten miles from Idaho’s state capital seeks an experienced, creative, and high energy library director.  The successful director candidate must be capable of maintaining library services during the current recession and of providing vision and leadership during the anticipated period of municipal and institutional growth to follow.

EPL serves a highly educated community which actively supports its library through volunteerism, donations, and fundraising activities.  A dynamic staff provides services in a handsome, 1999 facility housing a collection of 100,000 items.  Circulation is over 300,000 annually.

The library directorship is a full-time, benefitted position reporting to a governing library board and serving on the board of directors of an eleven-member public library consortium.

Schedule/Start Date: Work schedule is basically 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, with some evening and Saturday scheduling for adult reference desk staffing and attendance at meetings and public programs.  Position to start 1 April 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
●Promotes the mission and use of the Library to individual residents and a wide variety of community groups.
●Heads a six-person management team and administers a paid staff of 15.5 FTE and a large cadre of volunteers.
●Serves as professional staff to the EPL Board of Trustees, defining issues and recommending policy and fine/fee changes.  Also serves as professional staff to the Library Board’s Strategic Planning Committee and oversees production of planning documents.

●Presents monthly reports to the City Council.  Works with EPL’s management staff and Library Board to prepare a proposed annual budget for the City Council.
●Attends quarterly meetings of the regional LYNX! Consortium directors, serving as an officer or committee member as required.  Prepares annual member compliance report on Consortium service standards.
●Works with City Clerk and City Attorney to ensure reasonable and routine compliance with City/Library laws, bi-laws, policies, and standard personnel and fiscal practices.  Also works with City’s Public Works Department and outside vendors to maintain safe, efficient, and attractive facilities and grounds.
●Contributes to the Library’s core operational output: serves on the adult reference desk; participates in adult collection development; and consults on complex cataloging and access issues.  Reviews the Library’s adult and children’s programming plans.
●Serves as the liaison to and prepares funding requests for the Friends of the Eagle Public Library.  Prepares grant requests to other public and private agencies.
●Prepares annual statistical report for the Idaho Commission for Libraries.
●Represents the Library in municipal, community, and regional planning venues.

Wage: From $56,984 to $80,918 annually, depending upon qualifications and experience.

Qualifications:  Master’s degree in Library Science from an ALA-accredited program required. 
Knowledge of the techniques and issues of library administration, community analysis, and resource and service development required.  Knowledge of the principles and practices of fiscal and personnel management, budget development, basic accounting, and office management required.  Operational experience with at least two public library core competencies (e.g., reference, collection development, cataloging, and programming) required.  Five years of
increasingly responsible public library experience preferred, but some professional experience in school or academic libraries may be substituted.

To Apply: Employment application may be requested at the Eagle Public Library, 100 N. Stierman Way, Eagle ID 83616, and at the Eagle City Hall, 660 E. Civic Center Lane, or downloaded from the City’s webpage (www.cityofeagle.org).  Mail, FAX (208) 939-1359, or hand deliver the completed application, a letter of interest, and a professional resume to the
Eagle Public Library.  Position remains open until filled.  For more information, telephone current library director, Ron Baker, at (208) 939-6814, ext. 2, or visit the EPL website at www.eaglepubliclibrary.org.