PUBLIC SERVICES LIBRARIAN, PART-TIME

The South Holland Public Library is looking for an energetic Public Services Librarian to join our collaborative team, where flexibility, creativity, and teamwork are highly valued.

Responsibilities:

• Delivers friendly, courteous, and accurate assistance to all patrons.
• Strives to provide efficient and exceptional customer service with professionalism and care.
• Provides reference, research, readers’ advisory and other assistance to users at the Reference Desk.
• Performs duties such as collection management, selection, and weeding in assigned areas.
• Develops, schedules and presents programs for adults. 
• Assists and guides users in navigating the online catalog, internet, databases, and other library resources, while troubleshooting and supporting users with printing and faxing services.
• Advocates Library initiatives, programing and services through creative displays and other promotional materials.

Necessary Knowledge:

• Demonstrates strong customer service skills with the ability to interact respectfully and knowledgeably with the public.
• Competency in providing readers’ advisory and reference services.
• Skilled in adult collection development and adult programming.
• Must also be skilled in using MS Office Suite, Google Workplace and Canva.
• Able to reach, bend, stoop and lift up to 20 pounds and access library areas and materials.

Qualifications:

• MLS from an ALA-accredited program. Public Library experience preferred.
• Reads, understands, writes legibly and speaks articulately in English. Bilingual skills are a plus.
• Position requires flexible scheduling to accommodate day, evening and Saturday hours.  No Sundays.
• Access to transportation.