Library Specialist

Company Description

The Flagstaff City – Coconino County Public Library serves adult and youth residents across the City of Flagstaff, Arizona, and Coconino County. The library provides access to a wide range of materials, services, and electronic resources that support education, lifelong learning, and community engagement. Its collections and programs are designed to meet diverse informational, cultural, and recreational needs. Staff members work collaboratively to ensure welcoming, inclusive, and equitable access to information for all community members.

When assigned to East Flagstaff Community Library

• Provides excellent customer service to all library patrons.
• Assists patrons with computers and research, answers questions, interprets policies in order to answer patron questions.
• Handles patron complaints/comments, emergencies, and difficult situations according to library policy (including writing incident reports).
• Maintains and distributes community information.
• Selects and deselects materials by assessing library's needs and ordering appropriate materials.
• Performs Reader’s Advisory services.
• Plans, develops, and prepares programming (adult and/or youth, may include off site programming) including scheduling venue, preparing developmentally appropriate content and leading the program or booking and vetting the presenter, creating flyers or other promotional items, purchasing appropriate materials, and hosting programs. May also conduct early literacy story times.
• Checks materials in and out, issues library cards, sells Friends of the Library merchandise, accepts payments for lost/damaged items; may clear accounts; run reports, and empty book drops.
• Places holds and finds materials for patrons.
• Assesses and markets library programs and services in order to provide the most relevant and needed services to the public.
• Helps staff with grant planning and assists with writing and implementation when needed.
• Assists patrons with use of the library online catalog (OPAC), online subscription databases and other electronic resources, the Internet, printing, and general computer use issues.
• Assists with Inter-Library Loan requests, as needed.
• Processes library materials for circulation.
• Sorts donations at the Supervisor’s discretion.
• Promotes East Flagstaff Community Library programs and services.
  
  May write press releases, create flyers, and update on-line calendars.
• Acts as a shift lead and provides supervision in absence of a Supervisor.
• Assists in communicating day to day tasks to volunteers as assigned by a Librarian or Supervisor.