Librarian ; Promotional; General; Bilingual

This job posting is for current City employees with permanent Civil Service status. If you are not a City employee, please apply for the other posting labeled “Open to Anyone”.

Employees in this class are allocated to the General Specialty or to the Children’s Services Specialty. Employees in the General Specialty may perform work in the assignment areas of Adult Literacy, Consumer Health Information Services, Early Childhood Learning and Literacy, Information Technology, and Senior Citizen Services. Employees are responsible for providing assistance and reference services to patrons, reviewing and evaluating library materials, selecting materials for inclusion in collections, assisting in the maintenance of digital resources or reference collections, and describing and classifying books.

Employees in this class also give talks on library services and facilities to schools and community groups, cooperate with special projects, and work with Friends groups and volunteers, conduct library programs, and perform other beginning-level librarian duties. Work includes supervising, in the absence of a Library Supervisor, for a moderate duration of time, library activities and services, including the provision of reference and reader advisory services, technical services, or cataloging.

Incumbents in this class perform progressively more difficult assignments and under increasingly less supervision as they approach the full performance level.

• Presently employed by the City of Philadelphia with permanent Civil Service status and a Performance Rating of Satisfactory or higher.
• Possession of a fifth-year degree from an accredited school of library science.

NOTE:

Selective Factor Certification may be utilized, as needed, to fill specific assignments in the General Specialty. In accordance with Civil Service Regulation 11.032 – Selective Factor Certification, the appointing authority may request certification of eligible candidates with one or more of the specified qualifications to fill specific positions in this class in the General Specialty. Certification to fill such positions will be made from the two highest-ranking eligible candidates on the eligible list who possess the specified qualifications in the assignment area.

Child Protective Service Law requires an FBI criminal history background check, as well as the PSP criminal history background check and Pennsylvania child abuse background check, as a condition of employment.

Ability to meet the physical and medical standards approved for this class.