The Lapeer District Library is seeking an experienced, creative and enthusiastic department head for its reference department. The job site for this posting is at the Marguerite deAngeli Branch, but the person in this position travels to the smaller branches to directly administer collection development for the non-fiction collection and to work with branch staff on the provision of services. The person in this position has been scheduled to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm, and Monday from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm. (This schedule will resume when the library is fully open.) The reference services department head also provides direct supervision on every fifth Saturday at the deAngeli Branch from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Other evening and weekend hours will be required to provide the programming needed within the library system. The weekly schedule could change depending upon the candidate and the library's staffing and programming priorities. In addition to serving as the reference librarian at the main branch (Marguerite deAngeli Branch Library), the person in this position is responsible for development of the adult non-fiction collections at the six small branches within the library system and for providing guidance to the branch staff regarding reference services. Job description for a department head is here: https://library.lapeer.org/about-us/employment/library-department-head.pdf. Other qualities required? enthusiastic and positive interactions with teens and adults; kindness; empathy; sense of humor; tech savvy; ability to create own marketing tools and press releases; desire to make outreach to the community a priority; innovative programming; risk taker. Hours: 40 hours per week. Includes evenings & weekends. Salary range: Starting salary is $45,000. Salary may be negotiated at a higher starting rate based on experience. Benefits: health & dental (employee contributes 20% of medical and 10% of dental), retirement (MERS defined benefit); 457 plans; short- and long-term disability insurance; paid time off (PTO) Electronic submission is required. Please submit a letter of interest and resume, along with the names and contact information for three professional references to Melissa Malcolm (melissa@lib.lapeer.org) by 5:00 pm on Wednesday June 17, 2020. This position is also posted on the MLA Jobline site. -- Melissa A. Malcolm Library Director Lapeer District Library "Where your story begins." 201 Village West Dr S Lapeer, MI 48446 melissa@lib.lapeer.org www.library.lapeer.org 810.664.9521 <callto:810.664.9521> ext. 3113 "If liberty and justice mean anything, then access means everything." -- Charles Ogletree