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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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