Description
The Community
The City of Carlsbad is ideally situated in north San Diego County where a great climate, beautiful beaches and lagoons, and abundant natural open space combine with world-class resorts, family attractions, well planned neighborhoods, excellent schools, and a charming village atmosphere to create the ideal California experience. Covering nearly 40 square miles, the City of Carlsbad is currently home to about 115,000 residents. Thanks to an award-winning growth management plan, the city's infrastructure and services keep pace with development and promote an excellent quality of life.
The Library
The Library &Cultural Arts Department provides educational, informational, and cultural arts services for all community residents, which contributes to a high quality of life by supporting lifelong learning, the pursuit of knowledge, and creating community gathering places. The Library & Cultural Arts Department operates three public facilities that include the Carlsbad City Library, the Georgina Cole Library and the Library Learning Center, along with presenting public art in various formats throughout the community. The Carlsbad City Library is also home to the Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium and the Cannon Art Gallery which support a variety of visual and performing arts programs, arts education and cultural arts services.
The Position
This position oversees public services at the Dove Library, the largest of three Carlsbad Library locations.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced supervisor with a history of working with library and program vendors, patrons, and colleagues to deliver excellent library services. The Library is looking for a strong leader with excellent communication skills. The individual should exhibit flexibility, critical thinking, and an inherent understanding of the mission of public libraries. Experience with supervising supervisors is a plus. For reference, the City of Carlsbad’s Senior Librarian is comparable to the responsibilities of a Librarian III with the County and City of San Diego. Under general direction, performs work of considerable difficulty in planning, coordinating, and supervising a variety of library service programs; to supervise the work of library employees; and to do related work as assigned.
Reporting Relationships
Position reports to the Deputy Library Director or to a Principal Librarian.
You Belong in Carlsbad
The City of Carlsbad embraces and recognizes the vital relationship of an inclusive, engaged work environment and innovative excellence. An equitable and inclusive work climate comprises personal experiences, values, and views shaped from differences of culture and circumstance. Our organization appreciates belonging, creativity, recognition and retention of its employees and is committed to hiring and developing motivated, productive and talented employees who provide services and enhance our quality of life. We work to embrace open and equitable access to opportunities for learning and development as our responsibility and goal.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities may vary based on assignment
Assists patrons in the use of the Library and ensures top quality user experiences.
Plans, manages and administers professional library services.
Recommends and locates library materials appropriate to library users’ needs.
Provides instructions in the use of various print, electronic, and online resources.
Promotes libraries, library services and library programs.
Manages programming; schedules, plans and publicizes programs and events.
Participates in the development of online resources and their delivery.
Maintains an active role in the community, including schools, community groups, civic and other governmental agencies to promote library and city services.
Prepares grant requests and implements grants related to program and collection development. Monitors grant expenditures and prepares reports.
Catalogues and classifies library materials.
Maintains the integrity of Library records.
Manages the budgeting for a program, functional or specialized area or division.
Develops and manages library collections for all sites.
Develops and delivers classes and instruction on technology and computers.
Prepares reports based on the collection and analysis of relevant data for library activity.
Participates and contributes to library projects.
Leads and participates on committees and teams.
Responds to challenging situations and emergencies.
Recruits, selects, schedules and trains full time professional librarians, para-professional librarians, hourly employees and volunteers. May approve timecards.
Supervises the work of staff engaged in providing various library services. May provide input into disciplinary matters.
Schedules, attends and/or presents training and education seminars, workshops and classes, for library-and city-related skills.
May represent the service area or the library at meetings of library, city, community and professional associations.
Pursues continued professional and Library-wide development.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities are located in the attached KSA matrix.
Professional Librarian Series KSA Matrix
Experience & Education
An equivalent combination of the education and experience listed below:
- A Masters of Library Science or a Masters of Library and Information Systems from an American Library Association Accredited library school.
-Three years of professional library work experience is required to qualify for the Senior Librarian level, including a minimum of two years of prior library supervisory experience.
