Library Jobs in Alaska

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This is a listing of library-related jobs that are available in Alaska. If you are interested in one of these positions, please contact the agency directly. AkLA is unable to forward application materials. To Submit a job announcement for publication on the AkLA site send an email message to webdeveloper@akla.org

For official information about relocating to Alaska check the State of Alaska relocation site.

*Disclaimer: Efforts are made to maintain a current job announcements page, however, it is the applicant's responsibility to check with institutions advertising positions with open review dates prior to submitting applications.

Library Jobs in Alaska (MLIS)

Title: Librarian - Willow Library
Web posted - 8/4/2010

PCN: 077

This is a regular full-time position in the Community Development Department. This position will be located at Willow Library

Announcement Posted: 08/04/10 Application Deadline: Open Until filled

Salary: 22A $23.77/hr.

The employees occupying positions of this class are responsible for coordinating, directing, and participating in the library work, activities, and services of a Borough community library.

Minimum Qualifications: Two years of responsible library work experience; or Substituting successful completion of library science course work for the minimum experience.

Must have a valid Alaska driver’s license and a clear driving record.

The applicant conditionally selected for this position will be required to have a post-employment physical focusing on strength and lifting abilities, and to provide a criminal record background check and a copy of their driving record.

The complete position description is posted with this notice in the Human Resources Office for your review or you can go to www.matsugov.us to view the complete job description.

HOW TO APPLY: Submit application to the Human Resources Office. Applications are available online at www.matsugov.us or at the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Building, 350 East Dahlia Avenue, Palmer, AK. If you need reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application process, please contact the Human Resources Office at (907) 746-7404. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Assist. Professor of Library Science - Kuskokwim Consortium Library
Bethel Alaska - Web posted July 27th - Review begins 07-18-2010, open until filled

Full Job Listing on UAK Jobs

Job description:

The Assistant Professor of Library Science serves as head of the Kuskokwim Consortium Library which serves both as the college library and the public library for the City of Bethel. Bethel is in a remote region of Alaska with an approximate population of 6,000, and is the hub for 56 villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The population of Bethel is primarily Alaska Native, specifically Yup'ik.

The Library is located in the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center, a multi-use facility operated by the Kuskokwim Campus, which contains conference rooms and the Association of Village Presidents (AVCP) Yup'ik Museum and Gift Shop. The Library is open 12 months a year, 55 hours per week during the school year (September - May) and 35 hours per week during the summer (June - August). The staff consists of one professional (Librarian), and two library assistants - one for technical services and the other for children's programming. When funding is available, a part-time clerk and/or student assistant is hired.

The Library offers public access to the internet, interlibrary loan services, a group meeting room, reference services, and resource assistance to K-12 village libraries. The Library also sponsors public events, such as author visits, children's programs, and lecture series' when funding and staff time allows.

Knowledge, skills and abilities required for this position:

Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
Strong computer skills, including knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and online databases. Knowledge of Web Design and/or HTML

Typical education or training required for this position (including licenses):

Master's Degree in Library Science or related field.

Length of time and type of experience required for this position:

Teaching experience
3-5 years public library experience
Budget & Grant Management experience

Preferred knowledge, skills or abilities for this position:

Budgetary and personnel management experience.
3-5 years library work experience.
Teaching experience at the college level.
Grant writing and/or grant management experience.
Knowledge of web design and/or HTML.
Work experience in a multi-cultural setting.
Rural Alaska Experience.
Yup'ik speaker preferred.

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Please attach a:
Resume or vita
Cover letter
3 references
Teaching and research statement
List of publications
Philosophy of teaching

If you have difficulty applying to this posting, please call the UAF HR Helpdesk at (907) 474-7584 or Reception Desk at (907) 474-7700 for assistance.

Benefits: Refer to the Benefits web page at http://www.alaska.edu/benefits for more information on benefits available to University of Alaska employees.

E-Verify: The University of Alaska participates in the E-Verify program. For more information please see the following:

E-Verify Participation Poster (English):
https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/EverifyPosterEnglish.pdf
E-Verify Participation Poster (Spanish):
https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/EverifyPosterSpanish.pdf
Right to Work Poster (English):
https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/WebBPPOSTERRtoWEnglishversion.pdf
Right to Work Poster (Spanish):
https://e-verify.uscis.gov/emp/media/resourcesContents/WebBPPOSTERRtoWSpanishversion.pdf

Librarian/Library Director - City of Craig
Web posted July 9th

The City of Craig is accepting applications for the position of Librarian/Library Director. For announcement see website www.craigak.com. There is a link on the front page for the position.

Craig Public Library
PH 907-826-3281

Job Title: Librarian - Youth Services
Juneau Public Library - Web posted June 28th, 2010

LIBRARIAN – YOUTH SERVICES
PERMANENT FULL-TIME POSITION
37.5 hours per week
$26.42 - $28.21 Hourly (DOQ)

Are you seeking a challenging career?
Do you have innovative ideas & strategies for serving children and young adults? If you answered yes to these questions….Come join the team at the Juneau Public Libraries!

This is a fully benefited position. The City and Borough of Juneau offers a competitive salary package that includes the opportunity for regular wage increases, an excellent health insurance program, paid leave, and retirement credit through PERS (Public Employment Retirement System). For more details about benefits, please visit the following web link: http://www.juneau.org/personnel/benefits.php

RESPONSIBILITIES
Under broad direction, this professional librarian position coordinates youth services throughout the Juneau Public Library system, with the schools, and with other groups and agencies concerned with youth in Juneau. Plans and presents library programs for children, including story times, class visits, summer reading programs. Maintains the collections of children’s and young adult materials at all branches; authorizes the expenditure of the youth services materials budget. Provides direct public service to library users of all ages, covering both circulation and reference responsibilities.

Typical responsibilities include the following:
•           Schedules, promotes, and conducts public story times on a regular weekly basis at all branches.
•           Schedules and conducts library visits by school classes, pre-school groups, and other youth groups.
•           Plans and presents special programs for children, such as puppet shows, contests, exhibits, craft sessions, and visits by authors and illustrators.
•           Creates and conducts summer reading program for ages from preschool through high school.
•           Prepares or assigns preparation of promotional flyers, posters, calendars, public service announcements.
•           Evaluates book reviews and chairs juvenile selection committee for purchase of new juvenile and young adult library materials.
•           Schedules and manages collection assessment and de-selection (weeding) of juvenile and young adult collections.
•           Allocates the youth services materials budget by type of material and branch and authorizes materials expenditures.
•           Develops and recommends internal procedures for library administration and operation.
•           Participates in planning and implementation of cooperative resource sharing and children’s programming projects with libraries from local, state, and national jurisdictions.
•           Plans and implements educational and outreach programs for children, youth, and their caregivers; evaluates program outcomes and writes reports.
•           Coordinates library outreach programs and activities with adult outreach team and with other community agencies, such as schools.
•           Creates booklists and aids to finding Internet information on the library’s web pages for children and their caregivers.
•           Supervises, trains and evaluates subordinates.
•           Performs complex reference, research and reader service work.
•           Performs other related work as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION: Master's degree from an ALA accredited college in library or information science, media services, or a closely related field.

SUBSTITUTION: A Bachelor's degree including some course work in library or information science, media services, or a closely related field; AND one (1) year of experience as a Librarian.

EXPERIENCE: Supervisory experience in a library environment is desirable. Experience in public library reference service is desirable.

Other: Employee must have access to reliable transportation to transport self to Library branches.

CLOSING DATE
A completed CBJ application form, Number P001, must be received by the Human Resources & Risk Management Division before the close of business (4:30 p.m.) on July 12, 2010.

WHERE TO APPLY
City and Borough ofJuneau;
Human Resources & Risk Mgmt. Division
155 South Seward;
Juneau, Alaska 99801

http://www.juneau.org/human_resources
OR
Visit: http://www.juneau.org/personnel/instruct.php for instructions on how to submit an application via email

THE CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Library Jobs in Alaska (Paraprofessional)

Metadata Specialist - Temporary
Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center - Web posted Aug. 24th 2010

The Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center has immediate need for a temporary (9/12/2010 – 6/17/2011) Metadata Specialist.

Under general supervision of the Resource Center Mgr/Photo Archivist, this position has responsibility for either using existing metadata or creates new metadata to catalog 10,000 existing image scans into The Museum System (TMS) collection management software. Two thousand (2,000) of these images will also be catalogued in greater detail for inclusion in the Alaska Digital Archive using CONTENTdm.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Transcribe information from negative sleeves, index cards, or photographs into formatted spreadsheets, TMS, and/or CONTENTdm.
• Enter additional collection data, including photographer provided information.
• Subject catalogue images using localized thesaurus and Library of Congress Subject Headings.
• Initiate and track metadata cataloging workflow under Photo Archivist’s supervision.

Qualifications:

High School graduate or equivalent required.
Course work in Library and Information Science preferred.
Minimum one (1) year experience working in a library setting preferred.
Experience with spreadsheets, data-entry and/or databases, i.e. metadata cataloging, The Museum System, CONTENTdm, or subject cataloging.
Knowledge of Alaska history, culture and literature preferred.
Minimum six (6) months metadata and image cataloging preferred.
Evidence of excellent communication, listening, and interpersonal skills.

Interested parties should submit a completed application, resume and cover letter to the attention of Jacquelyn Hoflich, SPHR, Human Resources Director via email (jhoflich@anchoragemuseum.org); fax (907-929-9216); or mail to 625 C Street, Anchorage, AK 99501. Resumes will not be accepted without a completed application. Applications and additional information is available at http://www.anchoragemuseum.org/about/aboutus_employment.aspx.

Position closes when filled.

“AMA will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex or marital status or who is a ‘qualified individual with a disability,’ as that phrase is defined in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. AMA will take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status or physical or mental disability.”

Library Assistant I - Alaska State Library's Talking Book Center
Anchorage - Web posted July 27th 2010

Position ID Number: 05-3091 - Closes at 5:00PM on Friday August 6th.

Job Description:
Do you enjoy working directly with library patrons?

Do you believe in providing the best possible customer service you can?

Are you experienced with computers, Microsoft Office programs, the Internet, and using media software and equipment?

Would you like a job in a friendly downtown location that pays you to talk to patrons about what they want to read and then searching for and suggesting titles or authors they might enjoy?

The Alaska State Library’s Talking Book Center is recruiting for a full-time Library Assistant I. The Talking Book Center is located in downtown Anchorage, within easy walking distance of restaurants and shops. We work in a friendly office with a staff of eleven other employees of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development.

The Talking Book Center is a small unit, with two full-time employees (one Library Assistant I and one Library Assistant II) supervised by a librarian. The Center circulates audio books and provides other library services to 1,100 patrons living with visual and physical disabilities across Alaska. We are proud that more than 98% of our patrons consistently rate the overall service they receive from staff of the Talking Book Center as excellent or good.

The person in this position will spend half of each day working directly with patrons who are visually or physically handicapped to such a degree that they cannot read standard print. Patron service duties are provided by phone, e-mail, and in person and include: signing new patrons up for service, providing reader advisory services to help patrons decide what they would like to read next, selecting audio books for patrons based on their reading profiles, and helping patrons with their cassette and digital book players.

The person in this position can expect to spend two to three hours each day maintaining the audio book collection. Duties include: checking in and inspecting audio books to make sure the tapes are rewound and that all the media have been returned for each title, shelving audio books and large print books, processing and adding new audio books to our online catalog, adding large print books to our paper catalog, weeding older copies of audio books, and preparing monthly circulation reports drawn from our catalog.

This position spends nearly three to four hours each week helping to manage the collection of cassette and digital book players and other equipment we provide our patrons and to provide back-up for the office receptionist. Equipment management duties include: replacing and recharging batteries in cassette and digital book players, listing and shipping out broken machines for repair, and running periodic inventory reports on both types of players. During leave periods taken by the receptionist, this person will provide telephone coverage for the office and will perform basic computer network maintenance tasks under close direction.

The person in this position will be supervised by a librarian, but must be able to work closely with and take direction from the Library Assistant II, who oversees the daily operation of the Center. Other periodic duties include providing assistance with special projects such as recording the biennial election pamphlets, doing special mail-outs to patrons, and staffing the Talking Book Center booth at conferences and other events.

The Talking Book Center has an automated circulation system. This position will use the circulation system for daily library operations (checking audio books in and out and adding new patrons to the database) and will also use the system to generate periodic management reports, such as lists of overdue books by patron name, circulation statistics, and for other management reports. A willingness to learn this system and to work cooperatively with the Library Assistant II on generating reports are essential. Knowledge of computers, the Internet, Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel, and the ability to manage media files and equipment are important attributes for this position.

We want to hire a person with the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Highly developed public service skills, with an emphasis on providing outstanding customer service on a daily basis.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Sensitivity to and understanding of challenges that people with disabilities face every day.
Ability to work independently on daily activities and to work cooperatively on larger projects.
Ability to perform accurate record keeping with strong attention to detail.
Experience with library services and programs.
Knowledge of computers, Microsoft Office software, and the ability to search the Internet efficiently.
Ability to manage media, such as downloading, recording, posting, and sharing media files.
Enjoyment of reading and knowledge of popular titles and genres, such as romances, westerns, and mysteries.

Minimum Qualifications:

High school diploma or GED certificate
AND either
One year of advanced level clerical work reviewing and processing documents which requires knowledge, understanding, and the ability to apply appropriate criteria, rules, regulations, and policies and procedures. The required experience includes work such as Administrative Clerk III or Human Resource Assistant with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.
OR
Two years of journey level clerical office experience in a library or archive. The required experience is met by service as an Administrative Clerk II with the State of Alaska or the equivalent elsewhere.

Substitution:
Post secondary education from an accredited college (3 semester or 4 quarter hours equal one month) in any field may substitute for the required experience.

Find complete job description and application details at Workplace Alaska

Library Jobs in Alaska (Student)

Hiring for student assistants is an ongoing process on the three university campuses (University of Alaska Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Southeast)

Listings Outside Alaska

Three Librarian/Archivist Positions - Missouri

The MU Libraries at the University of Missouri-Columbia has three entry-level positions open at this time: Metadata/Catalog Librarian, Technical Services; Health Sciences Library Information Services Librarian; and Special Collections Librarian/Archivist [Print Manager]. Each position is full-time and benefit-eligible with anticipated start dates of January 2011.

For complete job announcement, see: http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/staff/admin/jobopps.htm.

Pacific Northwest Library Association job site: http://www.pnla.org/jobs/

Washington Library Association's job site: http://www.wla.org/liblinks.html#jobs