Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Director of Adult Services. This position is responsible for the strategy and development of the library’s Adult Services. The position ensures that the library provides a wide range of high-quality services and full access for users to library materials and services they want and need.

Reporting to the Associate Director, this position is responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating system-wide research and information services, which includes reference, reader’s advisory, collection development, and programs for adult audiences. Sets standards for reference staff, provides system-wide direction, coordinates implementation of services, and develops related policies and protocols.

This is a full-time, 37.5 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled for Monday through Friday. Pay commensurate with experience. Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance (among other voluntary benefits), retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave. This position is non-union.

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Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101

Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Senior Library Assistant for Teen. Reporting to the Teen Librarian, the person in this position is accountable for the delivery of reference and readers’ advisory services to teens ages 12-19 while staffing the Teen Library. The Senior Library Assistant may aid in the selection, maintenance, and promotion of materials for the Teen collection. Works collaboratively with the Teen Librarian in preparing, promoting and executing a wide range of library offerings for teenagers.

This position works primarily in the Downtown Teen Library and is a member of the Youth Services department.

The Senior Library Assistant works with a wide variety of the public and facilitates a variety of patron requests. They must be able to interact effectively and manage sometimes difficult situations. This work is performed in a fast-paced environment and requires an exceptional level of customer service.

This is a union-represented, part-time, 20 hours per week onsite position, normally scheduled to work Monday 12-5pm, Tuesday 1-6pm, Wednesday 10-3pm, and Thursday 12-5pm. Pay begins at $19.12/hr.

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Human Resources
Portland Public Library
5 Monument Square
Portland ME 04101

Portland Public Library (PPL) is currently seeking a Senior Library Associate for Interlibrary Loan. The person in this position is responsible for library work of a complex nature in the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) section of The Access Services Department. This position is responsible for providing materials to patrons through transactions which make library materials available from one library to another in a statewide and international interlibrary loan service network.

Reporting to the ILL supervisor, this position’s primary responsibilities are receiving, organizing, and processing ILL lending requests through a variety of channels from libraries worldwide and doing the same for ILL borrowing requests from local patrons. In addition, this position has primary responsibility for photocopy acquisitions for local patrons and providing photocopies to non-Region 1 or Region 2 requestors.

This is a union-represented, full-time, 37.5 hours per week onsite position, scheduled to work Monday-Friday after training. Pay begins at $21.82/hr. Excellent benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, retirement options (in lieu of Social Security), and paid leave.

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