Librarian

Employment Type: Executive Branch, Full Time, Eligible for Overtime Pay, 40 hours per week

About the Role

Blackburn Correctional Complex (BCC) serves as the Division of Adult Institutions' largest adult male minimum-security institution, providing care, housing, custody, control, and governmental services to inmates. This facility is located near Lexington, Kentucky. BCC is seeking a Librarian who will play a vital role in the mission through performing professional-level library work within the institution.

Responsibilities

• Assists in the planning, direction, and supervision of the work of clerical and paraprofessional personnel (inmates).
• Supervises the inmate library on a daily basis and ensures the library program meets inmate needs and ACA standards.
• Performs technical work acquiring, cataloging, and classifying books and periodicals, in addition to soliciting donations of books, library materials, and equipment from the private sector and the State Department of Libraries.
• Provides specialized reference, bibliographic, reader advisory, interlibrary loan, and research services.
• Maintains current awareness of library materials in relevant fields.
• Prepares in-house displays and activities.
• Ensures outgoing legal mail is appropriately documented.
• Ensures proper handling and storage of legal tapes and CDs and forwarding such items to other facilities if an inmate is transferred.

The ideal candidate for this position will have strong communication and observation skills, be self-motivated, well-organized, and possess a deep knowledge and passion for the literary field.

Requirements

Education

A bachelor's degree with a minimum of 21 semester hours in library science.

Experience, Training, or Skills

Two years of professional library experience.

• Substitute Education for Experience: A master's degree in library science will substitute for the required education and experience.
• Substitute Experience for Education: Library experience, which must include some professional-level experience in a combination of at least three of the following areas, will substitute for the education on a year-for-year basis:
  • Reference
  • Cataloging and classification of materials
  • Selection of materials
  • Selection of instructional materials for children, adolescents, or adults
  • Organization and/or administration
  • Preparation and selection of materials for public relations and publicity purposes
  • Bookmobile operations

Pay

Salary: $46,090.80 annually (Pay Grade 14)

Schedule

40 hours per week

Working Conditions

Typical work setting is an office/library.

This job has an initial and promotional probationary period of 6 months.