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>>> "Samantha Hastings" <[log in to unmask]> 09/20 2:44 PM >>>
When Dan Barron retired to the mountains of North Carolina, he bragged
about the view from his porch of the house he built. I think he was in
his rocker two days before becoming the interim director of the AMY
Regional Library. They are looking for a new, permanent director. I am
posting this as a favor to Dan. Description is below.
Avery-Mitchell-Yancey Regional Library
Date Listed: 15 September 2006
Title: Regional Library Director
Library: Avery-Mitchell-Yancey (AMY)
PO Drawer 310/ 289 Burnsville School Road
Burnsville, NC 28714
Note: The AMY Regional Library is located in the beautiful mountains
of Western North Carolina and serves over 50,000 people of the Toe River
Valley with 4 branch libraries, an outreach program, and bookmobile.
Salary: $45,000 to $50,000 depending upon background and experience. (An
assured pay raise of 5% following a satisfactory evaluation at the end
of 12 months.)
Qualifications: An ALA accredited MLS/MLIS degree or MLS degree from a
North Carolina regionally accredited library school is required. The
applicant must have North Carolina Public Library certification or be
eligible for certification before appointment. A minimum of 5 years of
responsible public library experience, 2 years of which must have been
at the supervisory or administrative level is required. The applicant
must provide their own transportation and maintain a NC driver's license
with good driving record.
Duties: The Library Director position requires a professional who has
the capacity and commitment to lead enthusiastically and manage a
regional library system. This includes planning, organizing, and
directing library services of 4 branch libraries and the regional
office. Duties will include establishing goals for library services,
capital campaign building programs, fund-raising, budget preparation and
justification, personnel and facilities management, technology planning,
collection development, and establishing administrative policies and
procedures. The Director reports to the governing Regional Library
Board.
Available: 1 January 2007
Apply by: 1 November 2006
Apply to: Please send a letter of application, a recent resume,
and names of 3 references to Ms. Carolyn Morphy, Chair, Employment
Committee, AMY Regional Library, PODrawer 310, Burnsville, NC 28714.
The AMY Regional Library is an equal opportunity employer that will not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national
origin, marital status, or against any qualified individual with
disabilities and will not tolerate sexual harassment.
Dr. S. K. Hastings
Director & Professor
School of Library & Information Science
College of Mass Communications & Information Studies
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
v: 803-777-3858
f: 803-777-7938
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http://www.libsci.sc.edu/
Robert J. Sandusky
Assistant Professor
Faculty Coordinator, Information Studies & Technology Minor
School of Information Sciences
University of Tennessee
451 Communications Bldg.
1345 Circle Park Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-0341
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865.974.2785 (voice) 865.974.4967 (fax)
