Library & Resource Specialist; Librarian Ii

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,

REHABILIATION & REENTRY

Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements. The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day.

ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.

Education Program and Community Reentry Division

Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC) - Safford

896 S. Cook Road

Safford, AZ 85546

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Salary: $22.38 / $46,552.00

Grade: 19

Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

Do you have experience working in a library or bookstore? Are you a teacher with library experience? This could be a perfect opportunity for you.

The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry (ADCRR) is seeking a Library & Resource Specialist to manage and support the Resource Center operations within a prison complex.

• Oversees, facilitates, and provides, as necessary and in a timely manner, legal and paralegal access, notary services, assists with e-filing access and distribution, and ensures services are documented
• Catalogs, indexes, and organizes Resource Center materials including books, newspapers, and magazines, and reviews these materials to ensure they meet Publication Review standards
• Provides access to materials useful for reentry
• Responds to inquiries for research materials
• Trains and oversees a resident workforce in carrying out a variety of Resource Center functions
• Assists and tracks staff and inmates' use of library resources
• Promotes Resource Center to support ADCRR’s goals
• Attends meetings and trainings
• Prepares reports and memos
• Assists in ordering library/resource materials as approved by the state/federal regulations and ADCRR policy and procurement procedures
• Provides training and onboarding assistance to newly hired librarians
• Assists teachers by providing literature or other library materials as necessary-
• Drives on State business
• Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment

• Library laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
• Professional and modern library tools, principles and practices
• Modern library practices and current original and copy cataloging standards
• Computers and various software programs, including word processing, spreadsheets, and library automation or OPACs (cataloging and circulation programs, file manipulation and backup)
• Operation of standard office equipment, including scanners, copiers, and printers
• Principles and practices of inmate management and supervision

• Verbal and written communication
• Organizational and time management
• Conflict resolution
• Customer service
• Classifying and cataloging books and other resource materials

• Work in a correctional environment
• Possess professional knowledge of all aspects of library principles, concepts, methodologies, and management techniques and able to apply them in a correctional Resource Center
• Inventory, catalog, track, and organize resource materials
• Establish and maintain effective work relationships
• Maintain the Resource Center in a neat, secure, and orderly fashion
• Learn and adhere to department policies and procedures

• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Library Science or related field
• Experience in state service and providing customer services
• Experience in office management supervision and/or corrections or a library may be substituted at the rate of 1 (one) year of education up to 2 (two) years

Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and drug test.

If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements…