Library Director

Organization: Moline, Illinois
Salary: The City will provide a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Beginning salary is negotiable depending on qualifications.
Close Date: Open until filled

Job Description:

The City of Moline is located in the heart of the Midwest, nestled between the banks of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers in Rock Island County, Illinois. Home to 43,768 people, Moline is one of four cities making up the Quad Cities, a metropolitan area of more than 350,000 people residing in Moline and Rock Island, Illinois and Bettendorf and Davenport, Iowa.

Moline has a full service, stable Council/Administrator form of government. The Moline Public Library is governed by the 9-member Moline Public Library Board (Board). Board members are appointed to specified terms by the Mayor and are vested with full governance responsibility for the Library. The Library Director is the Library’s chief executive officer and is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the Board. The Director is responsible to the Board to provide proper management and leadership to the Library. The facility is a new, state-of-the-art $12.5 million library which offers a vast collection of print and non-print materials. Library resources and services also include wireless access and cabling technology, meeting rooms, fax services, public copiers, notary public, voter registration, service to the homebound, art displays, tax forms, public typewriters, word processing computers, and the Copper Café coffee shop. The library is ADA compliant and has room for future collection growth. The current annual budget is $2.85 million and there are 29 FTE’s.

Requires a Master’s degree in library science and at least five (5) years of professional librarian experience to include management/supervisory responsibility over budget and finance as well as the provision of a wide breadth of municipal library services or any equivalent combination of training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

The City will provide a competitive salary with excellent benefits. Beginning salary is negotiable depending on qualifications.

Send confidential resume IMMEDIATELY to:

Robert E. Slavin, President
SLAVIN MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
3040 Holcomb Bridge Road, Suite A-1
Norcross, Georgia 30071
Phone: (770) 449-4656
Fax: (770) 416-0848
E-mail slavin@bellsouth.net
www.slavinweb.com

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