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Interested in working for the Mercer County Library System? We accept resumes on an ongoing basis for professional librarians and individuals who are interested in clerical or page positions. Resumes may be submitted care of:

Ellen O'Shea Brown, Library Director,
Mercer County Library System
Lawrence HQ Branch
2751 Brunswick Pike 
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
email: director@mcl.org
fax: (609) 538-9238

Note: The County of Mercer adheres to a strict residency requirement.

We are seeking to fill the following vacancies:

Date Re-Posted

April 15, 2008
Position 

Principal Librarian –Youth Services. The successful candidate will possess a M.L.S. from an ALA accredited institution, and at least two years of public librarianship. Examples of the duties specific to this position include, but are not limited to:

  1. Must like children! Must desire to promote a positive relationship between the library and youth and their families.

  2. Works to maintain high professional standards in patron relationships in the library through positive attitudes, crowd and noise control, and conflict diffusion.

  3. Does approximately 90% of collection development ordering through monthly B&T carts, publishers’ catalogs, vendors, and miscellaneous sources as replacement and duplicate needs, review journals, on-line searches, and recommendations.

  4. Oversees orders placed by YS staff for scope, balance, trends, and inclusion of in-demand items.

  5. Manages the monies allocated to the YS department from the Acq & Cat materials budget, and the Friends of the West Windsor Library for large performance programs and special materials.

  6. Acts as the liaison between the library and outside agencies.

  7. Scouts and contacts professional performers for the Summer Reading Program as well as year-round programs.

  8. Also seeks sponsorship from other sources, such as the PNC Bank of West Windsor.

  9. Works with the Reference Dept.

  10. Oversees the upkeep of and the systematic weeding of the YS collection carried out by all members of the YS staff.

  11. Stays involved with the young library patrons by doing weekly story times with craft; kid craft during the year and weekly during the summer for school-age children.

  12. Oversees the YS staff (one full time librarian, one full time library assistant and one half time assistant) and the scheduling of the youth desk.

  13. Is scheduled at least one evening and rotational weekends.

  14. Performs outreach to the community (such as visiting schools – i.e. career day, guest reader, promotion of summer reading program; community events; involvement in grant opportunities to enhance the communities relationship with the library; etc.)

  15. Develop and implement the Sunday Building Bridges to our Cultural Heritage presentations.

Branch  West Windsor Branch

Mercer County Library - Brian M. Hughes, County Executive


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