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Resources to Help with Hiring

Resources to Read (hiring a library director)

Places to Advertise Library Positions

• Email Lists
• Placement Offices
• Professional Journals
• Newspapers
• Online
• Other
  

Sample Position Descriptions

Sample Interview Questions

Resources to read (hiring a library director)

• Hiring a Library Director (Trustee Essential 5, from DLTCL)
  
  
• Hiring a New Director (from Aliance Library System, IL)

Places to Advertise Library Positions

• Email lists:
  
  
  • scls-announce (SCLS members libraries, staff & trustees).
    To subscribe, visit the scls-announce page and follow the directions under “Subscribing to scls-announce”
    
    
  • WISPUBLIB (statewide public library list).
    To subscribe, visit the WISPUBLIB page and follow the directions under "Subscribing and Unsubscribing to WISPUBLIB"
    
    
  • malc (SCLS list for libraries of all types).
    To subscribe, visit the malc page and follow the directions under “Subscribing to malc”
    
    
• Library schools’ placement offices:
  
  
  • UW-Madison SLIS:
    

    Student Services Coordinator
    4217 Helen C. White Hall
    600 N. Park St., Madison, WI 53706
    Phone: (608) 263-2909
    FAX: (608) 263-4849
    student-services@slis.wisc.edu

• UW-Milwaukee SOIS:
  Call 414-229-4707, or email your ad to info@sois.uwm.edu
  
  
• Professional journals:
  
  
  • American Libraries
    800-545-2433, ext. 4214
    careerleads@ala.org
    
    
  • Library Hotline
    646-746-7059
    jomurray@reedbusiness.com
    
    
  • Library Journal
    646-746-7059
    jomurray@reedbusiness.com
    
    
• Newspapers:
  
  
  • Wisconsin State Journal
    608-257-7777 or (800) 252-7723
    www.madison.com/service/advertiser/classifieds
    
    
  • Your local paper(s)
    
    
• Online:
  
  
  • Wisconsin.gov's Employment site
    
    
  • JobCenterOfWisconsin
    
    
  • WLA Bulletin Board
    
    
  • Your library's web page
    
    
  • JobList (ALA)
    
    
  • LISjobs
    
    
    
• Other Recruitment:
  
  
  • Ask other libraries to post your ad on an internal bulletin board, etc.

Sample Position Descriptions

Position Descriptions (Montana State Library)

Library Job Descriptions (New Mexico State Library)

Sample Interview Questions

Frequently Asked Interview Questions (University of South Carolina, School of Library & Information Science)

Interview Questions to Ask when Hiring a Manager (Ask a Manager blog)

Common Interview Questions (Indiana University, Kelly School of Business)

Job Interview Question Collections (Quintessential Careers)

For more information about public library management, contact Denise Anton Wright.

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