Entry Level Library Jobs in New York (NOW HIRING)

Salary: See Position Description
Location : Nassau County, NY
Job Type: Open Competitive
Job Number: 61-639CR
Department: See Below
Opening Date: 03/01/2022
Closing Date: Continuous
Exam Date: No Written Examination
Fee: $50.00
Salary & Other Information
ANNOUNCED FOR:
NASSAU COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARIES, VILLAGE LIBRARIES, AND SPECIAL DISTRICT LIBRARIES
SALARY: Varies according to jurisdiction.
Announcement amended on 4/29/25. Please see RESIDENCY section for note.
Announcement amended on 2/13/26 to revise MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS. Please see below.
REISSUED ANNOUNCEMENT
Applications will be accepted year-round. However, applications will be reviewed in groups, and passing candidates will be added to the continuous recruitment eligible list twice a year based on a process to commence subsequent to the filing deadlines of the last business day of July and the last business day of January.
NOTE: This process is explained in more detail in the Subject of Examination portion of this examination announcement.
NOTE: The Commission reserves the right to alter any and all aspects of this examination program, including but not limited to, adding names to the list and re-filing and eligibility time frames.
Names of successful candidates will be certified on the eligible list in score order, regardless of when the application was rated. Names of successful candidates will be removed from the eligible list at the time of appointment to a full or part-time position or two years after being placed on the list.
Candidates may re-file for this examination one year after being placed on the list. However, a candidate can only have one score on the list. Only the candidate's higher score, whether it's the existing score or the newer score, will appear on the list. If a candidate's new score is higher, then the existing score will be removed from the list and the new score will be put on. The new score will remain until the candidate is appointed or two years transpire.
If the candidate's new score is lower than the existing score, then the existing score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the original date of that score being added to the list) transpires. Once the existing, higher score is removed from the list, the newer, lower score will be added. The newer, lower score will remain on the list until the candidate is appointed or two years (from the date that application was rated) transpires.
Duties
Performs entry-level professional librarian duties; performs related duties as required.
Minimum Qualifications
REVISED 2/13/26:
Must be met by the day the application is submitted:
Possession of a New York State Public Librarian's Professional Certificate.
NOTE: If you have not previously submitted a copy of your professional library certificate to the Civil Service Commission, you must include a copy with your application.
NOTE: SEE ITEMS NOS. 1 AND 2 OF GENERAL INFORMATION.
Supplemental Information/Subject of Examination/General Information
HOW TO APPLY:
ONLINE APPLICATIONS are available at www.nassaucivilservice.com The advantages of filing electronically include the storage of submitted applications in your personal user account and application processing fee payment by credit/debit card.
Additionally, our Examination Announcements webpage includes a link entitled Job Descriptions and Job Interest Cards, which offers the opportunity to view class specifications and fill out a form so that you may receive an email notification when an open competitive examination for a particular title is announced in the future.
PLEASE NOTE: Computers are available to file electronic applications in our office at 40 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Hempstead, NY from 9:00 AM to 4:45 PM, Monday thru Friday. In accordance with our goal of making the Nassau County Civil Service Commission a paperless agency, no hard copy application is available.
REVISED 4/29/25:
RESIDENCY: SEE ITEM NO. 5 OF GENERAL INFORMATION.
NOTE: CANDIDATES MUST HAVE BEEN LEGAL RESIDENTS OF NASSAU COUNTY AND/OR SUFFOLK COUNTY AND/OR WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND/OR THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY FOR AT LEAST TWELVE MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE DATE OF THE WRITTEN TEST AND MAINTAIN RESIDENCY IN NASSAU COUNTY AND/OR SUFFOLK COUNTY AND/OR WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND/OR THE FIVE BOROUGHS OF NEW YORK CITY UNTIL APPOINTMENT FROM THE ELIGIBLE LIST ESTABLISHED AS A RESULT OF THIS EXAMINATION.
NOTE: THE VILLAGE OF FREEPORT HAS A SPECIAL RESIDENCE REQUIREMENT WHICH MUST BE SATISFIED.
FEE: NON-REFUNDABLE Processing Fee must be submitted for each separately numbered examination for which you apply. This fee must be paid by credit or debit card.
CAREFULLY REVIEW THE MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS ON THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO ENSURE THAT YOU MEET THEM, AS THIS IS A NON-REFUNDABLE PROCESSING FEE. Applications submitted without proper payment will be rejected without review.
APPLICATION FEE WAIVER: A waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are unemployed and primarily responsible for the support of a household. In addition, a waiver of application fee will be allowed if you are determined eligible for Medicaid, or receiving Supplemental Security Income payments, or Public Assistance (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families/Family Assistance or Safety Net Assistance) or are certified Job Training Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act eligible through a State or local social service agency. Active-duty military service members and military veterans shall be exempt from the payment of application fees. All claims for application fee waiver are subject to verification. If you can verify eligibility for application fee waiver, when prompted to submit the application processing fee, choose the Fee Waiver option. Follow the directions regarding downloading and submitting the required fee waiver form.
NOTE: SEE ITEM NO. 6 OF GENERAL INFORMATION REGARDING ADDITIONAL CREDITS FOR VETERANS, AND FOR CHILDREN/SIBLINGS OF FIREFIGHTERS/POLICE OFFICERS WHO QUALIFY UNDER SECTIONS 85A/85B OF CIVIL SERVICE LAW. IF YOU BELIEVE YOU QUALIFY FOR SUCH CREDITS, ANSWER "YES" TO THE APPLICABLE QUESTION(S) IN THE APPLICATION.
VACANCIES: SEE ITEM NO. 4 OF GENERAL INFORMATION FOR INFORMATION REGARDING VACANCIES AND BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS.
NOTE: More than two no-responses to canvass letters will result in the removal of a candidate from the eligible list.
SUBJECT OF EXAMINATION: TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE EVALUATION
There will be no written or oral test for this examination. If you meet the minimum qualifications, you will receive a rating based upon an evaluation of your training and experience against the duties of the position being tested.
Candidates must first complete an online examination application and electronically submit it to the Nassau County Civil Service Commission.
Applications will be reviewed twice a year as follows:

• Applications received by the last business day in July will be reviewed in August. Approved candidates will be sent a notice containing directions to a website address needed to complete a Training and Experience Questionnaire, which will be available September 1, and approved candidates will be required to complete and submit this questionnaire between September 1 and midnight, September 30. NOTE: Candidates may be credited with training and experience gained up to the date the Training and Experience Questionnaire was submitted.

NOTE: Passing candidates will be added to the continuous recruitment eligible list by the end of December.

• Applications received by the last business day of January will be reviewed in February. Approved candidates will be sent a notice containing directions to a website address needed to complete a Training and Experience Questionnaire. which will be available March 1, and approved candidates will be required to complete and submit this questionnaire between March 1 and midnight, March 31. NOTE: Candidates may be credited with training and experience gained up to the date the Training and Experience Questionnaire was submitted.

NOTE: Passing candidates will be added to the continuous recruitment eligible list by the end of June.
Note regarding resumes: Most resumes do not contain the detailed information needed to evaluate your experience. Therefore, the submission of a resume - which is not required - is a supplement to a fully completed application, not a substitute for it. To receive credit for a job, basic information such as employer's address, name and title of supervisor, hours in the work week, final salary, reason for leaving, etc. must be entered in the appropriate areas of the examination application.
IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CANDIDATE TO NOTIFY THIS COMMISSION, IN WRITING, OF ANY CHANGE OF NAME, MAILING/LEGAL/EMAIL ADDRESS, OR PHONE NUMBER: INDICATE EXAMINATION NUMBER AND TITLE, AND YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.
DISABLED VETERANS: Visit our homepage at www.nassaucivilservice.com to view information (including a downloadable credit request form) on a recent amendment to the New York Constitution regarding the award and use of additional credits for certain disabled veterans on civil service examinations.
GENERAL INFORMATION
1. APPLYING: Inquiries should be directed to the Executive Director, Nassau County Civil Service Commission. The Commission does not accept responsibility for non-delivery or delivery delays of emails due to issues with your email account. The Commission reserves the right to reject for lateness or to accept applications filed after the advertised filing period.
2. TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE: The burden of establishing qualifications to the satisfaction of the Commission shall be upon the applicant. For the purpose of meeting the training and experience requirement of any examination, no credits shall be given for any work experience which is determined by the Commission to have been gained or acquired in violation of the provisions of the Civil Service Law.
Where required, certificates, licenses, and military separation papers (DD214) must be submitted with your application. Proof of claimed education, (copy of your high school diploma, Military, GED, New York State or comparable Equivalency Diploma) may be required to be submitted with the application. If education beyond high school is required, official transcripts must be submitted directly to us by the school
College education is considered at the rate of 30 credits completed per year.
For open competitive qualifications only, paid experience, if other than on a full time basis will be prorated.
Volunteer experience may be accepted if verifiable, and the experience claimed must have been in a structured program. Documentation signed by an official of the agency indicating hours per week, level of work, etc. must be provided.
Where additional experience may be substituted for an academic degree/diploma, the interpretation of the note, generally, is that for a full substitution, the underlying educational requirement for a Master's degree must be a Bachelor's degree; for a Bachelor's degree, it must be a High School Diploma/High School Equivalency Diploma; for a High School Diploma, it must be satisfactory completion of tenth or eighth grade education, as appropriate.
3. THE EXAMINATION: The Commission reserves the right, after this announcement is issued, to subdivide the examination and/or require a specific passing mark in one or more of such subdivisions in order that a candidate be considered further for eligibility. Notice of such arrangement will be given in the examination instructions.
A record of disrespect for the requirements and processes of law, including repeated traffic offenses or disregard of summonses for traffic offenses, is grounds for disqualification for examination, or after examination, for certification and appointment.
Examinations prepared and rated by the New York State Department of Civil Service will be in accordance with Section 23-2 of the Civil Service Law.
Examinations prepared and rated by the Nassau County Civil Service Commission will be in accordance with the rules and regulations of this Commission.
4. ELIGIBLE LISTS, PLACEMENT, AND ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR APPOINTMENT TO CERTAIN POSITIONS:
Vacancies: Eligible lists resulting from examinations may be limited to a sufficient number of passing candidates to fill vacancies. Additional candidates may be processed for certification from the lists as the need arises.
All eligible lists shall be established for four years unless the Executive Director deems it appropriate to expire an eligible list before the end of the four-year term from establishment.
Candidates must be psychologically and physically fit to perform the duties required for the position. Medical or psychological examination may be required.
When there is a need for employees to fill vacancies on a part time basis the eligible list may be canvassed for that purpose.
Changing conditions occasionally result in certification and offers of employment at hi