Be a Connector and a Connection for Cromaine District Library! Cromaine is The Place to Connect to-- Learn - technology, online education, new interest Enjoy – discovery, enrichment, cultural and leisure activities People – expertise, gatherings and groups, friends, legacy We continue to weather the economic storms of Michigan without lay-offs, cutting individual staff hours, closing doors or reducing hours, or slashing the materials budget. Now we have a 30-hour Adult Services Librarian position with emphasis on serving our business community. We believe we are the place to connect—with warm and friendly staff, the Web, and the community. If that’s your desire, interest, and future vision, too, then we need you! Cromaine District Library is located near the intersection of M-59 and US-23—easy to get to from Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint. Cromaine-Village (built in 1927 and expanded in 1980) is the main library with the largest collection and programming space, but we also offer a popular collection and an increasing number of programs at the Crossroads Branch, in a strip mall, established 2005. Cromaine wins grants, including National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read--our sixth year just around the corner. In recent months, we’ve been notified of three other successful grant applications. Grants for technology in Youth, local business sponsorships for an expanded summer concert series, exhibits from the Smithsonian and the Arab-American National Museum—we are a place to connect to culture, music, technology, makers, as well as reading in every format. We offer Color Nooks and Kindles loaded with bestsellers for check-out; IPads for use in the building; and just upped the number of purchased databases and services beyond what the MeL offers. Plus we are both an OverDrive (TLN’s Download Destination) plus Advantage, Axis 360 library, and, now, hoopla from Midwest Tape, library. On top of all this, we are revisiting our expansion plans because we simply need more space to carry out and support (with collection and services) a very full event calendar (check It out at www.cromaine.org/Programs and Events). $17.20 per hour to start, 30 hours per week; includes some evenings and weekends. MLA membership and national conference attendance (in rotation) paid. After successful completion of the 90-day introductory period, an increase to $17.95 is planned. Share your love for new technologies and public service with a community that loves its library and its library staff even more. Send your application (available at www.cromaine.org--Cromaine News & Info--Forms), resume, MLS classes in technology and adult services, and a cover letter to “Adult Librarian” at Cromaine or e-mail (preferred to be “green”) to brentola@cromaine.org by January 31, 2014—position applications accepted until filled.