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Have you ever wanted to work in libraries? The Delaware County District Library is hiring! Whether you want your foot in the door or you have experience and the degrees to go with it, we might have an opening for you.
One of the first ways that someone begins their work in libraries is by being a page. Page positions are needed at virtually every type of library, and they help a library to function on a day-to-day basis. Pages shelve library materials, and they oversee the general order of the collection. They are among the first people who get to put a brand new book on the shelf, and they are the most essential people to keep the books on the shelf looking great!
Pages at the Delaware County District Library can begin working at 16 years old. DCDL is hiring for multiple part-time page positions working up to 15-hours per week. As many of our pages are students, back-to-school time is typical for a hiring increase to fill these positions across the entire DCDL system, which includes Delaware, Liberty and Orange branch libraries.
If you, or someone you know, is further in their library career, they may want to consider an opening for a branch manager position. The Delaware County District Library is currently seeking applications for a full-time branch manager at our Orange Branch Library. A master of library science or master of library and information science is required for this position, and past management experience should be demonstrated.
The Delaware County District Library has a strong focus on customer service. This position would coach and lead their staff to maintain that commitment to the public. As part of the Orange Township and neighboring communities, the branch manager would also develop and maintain community partner relationships and promote library services within the area.
You can learn all about the library’s hiring process and find answers to some frequently asked employment questions at www.delawarelibrary.org/careers. Update your Indeed page, spruce up that cover letter and resume, and we hope to see your applications soon!
This week we look at some of August’s newest “must-read books,” as curated by popular sales, reviews, and new releases across all platforms.
• “The Librarianist” by Patrick deWitt. Meet Bob Comet, a 71-year-old retired librarian who has lived alone for nearly 50 years in the same Portland, Oregon, house he grew up in. A chance meeting with a confused elderly woman leads to Bob volunteering at a senior center, which offers him a place to belong as well as a few surprises. Jump back in time throughout the book as you revisit Bob as a recently wed (and quickly betrayed) young man in his 20s and as an 11-year-old runaway.
• “Promise” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths. In their small town in coastal Maine, the teenage Kindred sisters are growing up loved and happy in the 1950s, friends with the daughter of the only other Black family around and a poor white girl. But as the girls become teens and the civil rights movement accelerates, their relationships are tested and racism and violence become all too real.
• “Silver Nitrate” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. In 1993 Mexico City, Montserrat Curiel works as a sound editor while her friend Tristán Abascal toils away as a soap opera actor. A chance encounter with Abel Urueta, the pair’s favorite cult director, leads to their involvement in helping him finish one of his films. What happens next: Urueta claims his unfinished film was cursed by a Nazi occultist, and that completing it will finally bring him the success he was promised. But once the trio finish their work, a terrifying magic is reawakened that threatens to consume them all.
• “The Seven Year Slip” by Ashley Poston. Book publicist Clementine moves into her late aunt’s “magical” Upper East Side apartment and falls for her temporary roommate Iwan, who’s living seven years in the past. This hopeful time slip romance by the author of “The Dead Romantics” boasts well-drawn characters and moving meditations on love and grief.
• “Crook Manifesto” by Colson Whitehead. 1970s New York City: Ray Carney, a furniture store owner and ex-criminal, is drawn back into the game. Covering three time periods, the action deals with acquiring tickets to a Jackson 5 concert by any means necessary, a missing Blaxploitation actress, and the hunt for an arsonist. This 2nd in a trilogy by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead offers “not just crime fiction at its craftiest, but shrewdly rendered social history” (Kirkus Reviews).
If you have a question that you would like to see answered in this column, mail it to Nicole Fowles, Delaware County District Library, 84 E. Winter St., Delaware, OH 43015, or call us at 740-362-3861. You can also email your questions by visiting the library’s web site at www.delawarelibrary.org or directly to Nicole at [email protected]. No matter how you contact us, we’re always glad you asked!
