[Michlib-l] Adult Services 30-hour Librarian Opening at Cromaine!

[Ceci Marlow]

Be a Connector and a Connection for Cromaine District Library!
Cromaine is The Place to Connect to--
Learn - technology, online education, new interest
Enjoy – discovery, enrichment, cultural and leisure activities
People – expertise, gatherings and groups, friends, legacy

We continue to weather the economic storms of Michigan without lay-offs, 
cutting individual staff hours, closing doors or reducing hours, or 
slashing the materials budget.  Now we have a 30-hour Adult Services 
Librarian position with emphasis on serving our business community. We 
believe we are the place to connect—with warm and friendly staff, the 
Web, and the community. If that’s your desire, interest, and future 
vision, too, then we need you!

Cromaine District Library is located near the intersection of M-59 and 
US-23—easy to get to from Detroit, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Flint. 
Cromaine-Village (built in 1927 and expanded in 1980) is the main 
library with the largest collection and programming space, but we also 
offer a popular collection and an increasing number of programs at the 
Crossroads Branch, in a strip mall, established 2005.

Cromaine wins grants, including National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big 
Read--our sixth year just around the corner. In recent months, we’ve 
been notified of three other successful grant applications. Grants for 
technology in Youth, local business sponsorships for an expanded summer 
concert series, exhibits from the Smithsonian and the Arab-American 
National Museum—we are a place to connect to culture, music, technology, 
makers, as well as reading in every format. We offer Color Nooks and 
Kindles loaded with bestsellers for check-out; IPads for use in the 
building; and just upped the number of purchased databases and services 
beyond what the MeL offers. Plus we are both an OverDrive (TLN’s 
Download Destination) plus Advantage, Axis 360 library, and, now, hoopla 
from Midwest Tape, library.

On top of all this, we are revisiting our expansion plans because we 
simply need more space to carry out and support (with collection and 
services) a very full event calendar (check It out at 
www.cromaine.org/Programs and Events).

$17.20 per hour to start, 30 hours per week; includes some evenings and 
weekends. MLA membership and national conference attendance (in 
rotation) paid. After successful completion of the 90-day introductory 
period, an increase to $17.95 is planned.

Share your love for new technologies and public service with a community 
that loves its library and its library staff even more. Send your 
application (available at www.cromaine.org--Cromaine News & 
Info--Forms), resume, MLS classes in technology and adult services, and 
a cover letter to “Adult Librarian” at Cromaine or e-mail (preferred to 
be “green”) to brentola at cromaine.org by January 31, 2014—position 
applications accepted until filled.