Library Director, East Providence Public Library, RI
Posted April 13, 2022
Description:
Responsibilities
- Lead the Library first and foremost with dedication to excellent customer service
- Advance Library services with adaptability and creativity, responding positively and rapidly to changing community needs and demographics
- Facilitate and maintain close relations with the Mayor and all levels of City
- Government, the Library Board of Trustees, the Friends of the East Providence
- Public Library, and the East Providence Library Foundation
- Develop and oversee the annual budget, including preparing and making effective presentations
- Be accountable for the direction and success of Library programs accomplished through others
- Display extensive judgment and ingenuity developing and interpreting Library policies with the Library Board and determining how they should be applied
- Create welcoming Library spaces where diverse ideas and perspectives that sustain an open and inclusive civil society can be expressed safely
- Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to specific equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives
- Possess the ability to act as a consensus builder and work collaboratively with the
- Library Board, staff and community
- Exhibit political savvy with well-developed prowess at building and strengthening relationships
- See the “big picture” and follow through with plans
- Maintain intellectual curiosity and openness to new ideas coupled with good business sense
- Work closely with the Mayor and City Departments to maintain and improve Library buildings, planning for healthy indoor and outdoor spaces to engage the community
Minimum Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Library Science from a University or College accredited by The American Library Association.
- Minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible professional public library experience including library management and direct supervision of others or equivalent.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing to the Mayor, City
- Council, Library Board, staff, and all library constituents
- Ability to make sound decisions grounded in experience, intuition, research, analysis and fact finding.
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