Librarian II

The City of Beverly Hills has a long‑standing reputation for providing superior customer service to residents, businesses, and visitors. This characteristic, combined with outstanding staff in all departments, has been a hallmark of success for this high‑performance organization. The municipal government (approximately 1,000+ full‑time and part‑time employees) provides the highest quality safety services, recreational activities, municipal services, and physical environment.

The Community Services Department provides exceptional cultural, educational, recreational, and social services to enhance and maintain a high quality of life and attractive physical environment in the Beverly Hills community. The Library's mission is to provide resources, services, and a place to read, connect, relax, and learn. The Library supports literacy, life-long learning, civic engagement, and cultural awareness. To achieve these goals, the Library provides: access to library materials and guidance in finding quality, trusted information, events for all ages to support life-long learning and early literacy, and school year and summer programs to promote a lifetime love of reading.

The Library helps adults and children by offering access to hundreds of thousands of books, audio books, e-books and other materials. Thousands of patrons are reached through outreach activities to schools, homebound patrons, Roxbury Book Nook, and community events.

The Beverly Hills Public Library is seeking an outstanding Librarian II. The position will work in the Adult Reference Department and will be responsible for providing outstanding customer service and high quality reference and readers’ advisory in-person, by phone, and while roaming and moving about the library frequently. The position will also be responsible for providing reference support, some collection development, research, and other duties as assigned.

Incumbents must have professional experience within the last five years working in Adult Reference at a public library, or in a similar role for a municipal government agency. Incumbents must be knowledgeable of Library online resources and databases, able to multi-task and work in a fast‑paced environment with frequent interruptions. Incumbents must be flexible to work in all services of the library though they will have dedicated assignments.

The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, adaptable, team oriented, customer focused and tech savvy. This position reports directly to the Librarian III.

All work will performed on-site, 5 days a week. This is a non‑teleworking position. Additionally, incumbents will be assigned to work one evening shift per week.

Librarian II

$91,987.20 - $ Annually

This position is represented by the Municipal Employer's Association and is covered by the negotiated terms and conditions of that Association's Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). Additional details about benefits may be found in the MEA, a copy of which is located erlyhills.org/mou.

Master's degree in Library Science and two years experience at a professional level.

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