Library Technician pay range

What the state says the job is

This is supervisory or advanced technical library work. An employee in this class is responsible for supervising a library function including purchasing, accessioning, classifying, and cataloging or circulation, inter-library loan, and reader services in a large departmental or institutional library. Work involves assisting library patrons in locating reading and research materials. Work may involve the preparation of subject bibliographies and may include extensive abstracting of bibliography material or library holdings. In the absence of supervisory duties an employe in this class is responsible for the maintenance and operations of a moderate- size departmental or institutional library including the purchasing, cataloging, circulation, and provision of reader services.

Examples of the work

Maintains and operates a moderate-size departmental or institutional library by purchasing, cataloging, circulating, and providing library and reader services. Supervises the operation of the purchasing and cataloging, or circulation and reader services section of a large departmental or institutional library. Supervises the provision of or provides reader services and helps inmates and patients at state institutions which may include some teaching of library techniques, taking reading materials to wards and cells where inmates and patients are allowed only limited movement, and assisting library patrons in finding appropriate materials to answer questions.

Minimum qualifications

Four years of library-clerical work including two years of advanced library clerical work comparable to the Library Assistant II, and graduation from high school. or Two years of advanced library clerical work, and a associate degree or equivalent training with major course work in library science. or A bachelor's degree.