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Salary: $41.02 - $43.18 Hourly
Location : City of Danbury, CT
Job Type: Full Time Position
Job Number: 00587
Department: LIBRARY
Opening Date: 06/15/2026
Closing Date: 7/6/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
Description
The City of Danbury is announcing an Open Competitive Exam for the position of Librarian I- Teen Services
Statement of Duties: The Young Adult Librarian provides professional services and support to engage with teens in grades 6-12. The Young Adult Librarian plans and executes programs for young adults, provides a nurturing and supportive atmosphere in the library's Junior Department, and builds and maintains the young adult collection of materials. The Librarian is responsible for participating in outreach to the Danbury schools and other local agencies that provide services to young adults.
Supervision Required: Under the general supervision of the Head Librarian. The employee is familiar with the work routine and uses initiative to carry out recurring assignments independently, with specific instruction. The supervisor provides additional, specific instruction for new, difficult, or unusual assignments, including suggested work methods. The employee is expected to recognize instances which are out of the ordinary and which do not fall within existing instructions; the employee is then expected to seek advice and further instructions. Reviews and checks of the employee's work are applied to an extent sufficient to keep the supervisor aware of progress, and to ensure that completed work and methods used are technically accurate and that instructions are being followed.
Supervisory Responsibility: The employee, as a regular and continuing part of the job, is required to lead other employees to assist them in completing their assigned work. Employee also performs non-supervisory work that is of the same kind and level as is done by the employee(s) being supervised. The employee(s) supervised work at the same location and the same work shift, and the staff size is well established and relatively stable throughout the year.
Confidentiality: Employee has access to confidential information of the department such as patron records.
Accountability: The nature of work assures that errors are usually detected in succeeding operations. Consequences of errors, missed deadlines or poor judgment may include time loss caused by back checking by others and slowdowns in the processing of the work. Errors are generally confined to a single department, such as billing or accounting errors.
Judgment: Numerous standardized practices, procedures, or general instructions govern the work and in some cases, may require additional interpretation. Judgment is needed to locate, select, and apply the most pertinent practice, procedure, regulation or guideline.
Complexity: The work consists of the practical application of a variety of concepts, practices and specialized techniques relating to a professional or technical field. Assignments typically involve evaluation and interpretation of factors, conditions or unusual circumstances; inspecting, testing or evaluating compliance with established standards or criteria; gathering, analyzing and evaluating facts or data using specialized fact-finding techniques; or determining the methods to accomplish the work.
Work Environment: The work environment involves everyday discomforts typical of library settings. Noise or physical surroundings may be distracting, but conditions are generally not unpleasant. Employee may be required to work beyond the normal business hours of City Hall to attend evening meetings on weekends in accordance with the library's hours of service.
Nature and Purpose of Public Contact: Relationships with co-workers and the public involving frequent explanation, discussion, or interpretation of practices, procedures, regulations, or guidelines to render service, plan or coordinate work efforts, or resolve operating problems. Extraordinary courtesy, tact, and diplomacy may be required to resolve complaints or deal with uncooperative or uninformed persons. Employee may furnish news media or the public with routine information such as department operating procedures and practices regarding use of print or electronic resources.
Occupational Risk: Duties of the job present little potential for injury to the employee.
Essential Functions:
The essential functions or duties listed below are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position.

1. Performs collection development, program development, and outreach activities for young adults, grades 6- 12. Creates a welcoming environment for young adults in the Junior Department.
2. Meets or exceeds professional standards and best practices in reader's advisory and reference work for young adults and their parents or guardians.
3. Selects, trains, and supervises volunteers in the Junior Department.
4. Develops and works closely with the Teen Library Council
5. Liaises with schools and community partners to support library programming for Danbury youth. Maintains regular communication and coordinates visits to schools and other children's area facilities on a regular basis.
6. Initiates, plans, and conducts a variety of programs and activities to encourage the use of the library by teens, including after school, vacation, and summer reading programs. Responsible for actively and creatively marketing the youth services collection and services. Involves teens in planning and implementing services for their age group.
7. Provides in-person library service at a public service desk. Utilizes library technology, including online databases as well as traditional library resources, in answering patron queries. Promotes and helps teens navigate library resources and services and provides friendly, responsive customer service.
8. Engages in professional development appropriate to youth services, including reviewing current professional journals, attending professional workshops and meetings, and communicating with peers in library settings. Represents the Danbury Public Library appropriately at workshops and educational meetings relating to Youth Services.
9. Prepares library displays to promote programs, events, and topics of interest to young adults.
10. Collaborates regularly with the Children's Program Coordinator, Children's Librarian, and Librarian II- Youth Services, to develop and execute department goals as well as collaborate on larger family programs.
11. Possess a knowledge of cultural trends as they relate to teens as well as an understanding of teen development.
12. Ability to travel independently to community outreach events.

Minimum Qualifications (Required):
Education and Experience:
Master's in Library Science from an ALA-accredited graduate school
3-5 years of library work experience
1 year working in a public service environment
Must be available evenings and weekends
Knowledge of teen literature
Knowledge of collection building & programming for teens and/or young adults
Commitment to community development & growth
Special Requirements: None required.
Knowledge, Abilities and Skill
Knowledge:
Knowledge of the principles, practices, and techniques of modern library operation
Knowledge of the current trends in library services for teens
Knowledge of teen literature and other materials for youth
Possesses knowledge related to youth popular culture, literature, media, educational, and technological trends
Abilities:
Ability to work with young adults of various backgrounds, ages, and abilities
Create long-range and short-range department goals and objectives
Manage a sizeable amount of young people simultaneously
Communicate effectively with others, both written and orally
Skills:
Genuine enthusiasm for working with teens
Experience working in a team environment
Strong written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
Experience with computers and using an automated library system
Effectively engage with youth both individually and in groups.
Organizing, prioritizing, and multitasking
Physical and Mental Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the position's essential functions.
Physical Demands: Little or no physical demands are required to perform the work. Work effort principally involves sitting to perform work tasks, with frequent periods of stooping, walking, and standing. The employee may occasionally be required to lift, push or pull objects such as books, department equipment and paper.
Motor Skills: Duties are largely mental rather than physical, but the job may occasionally require minimal motor skills for activities such as moving objects, operating a personal computer and/or most other office equipment, keyboarding and/or word processing, filing, or sorting of papers.
Visual Demands: The employee is routinely required to read documents for general understanding and analytical purposes. The employee is rarely required to determine color differences.
Application Information
Application Submission:
Applications must be submitted online at Qualified applicants must submit an application no later than 11:59 pm, Monday, July 6th, 2026. EEO/M/F/D/V
Important Note: Paper applications will not be accepted.
The application must be completed in its entirety. Omissions, false, misleading, or inaccurate information will result in rejection of the application.
It is recommended that applicants not wait until the last day to submit the application. Applications should be completed as soon as possible after publication of the announcement for examination.
Please contact the Human Resources/Civil Service Department at (203) 797-4598 or if you need assistance or if you have any general questions.
1. Application Review
The Civil Service Commission is responsible for reviewing the applications to determine if they are complete and meet the minimum requirements for the position. The Commission will review all the applications for the position during its bi-weekly meetings following the closing date of the position.
If an application is accepted by the Civil Service Commission, then the applicant will be notified in writing and will be informed of the next step in the process. If the Commission does not accept an application, the applicant will also be notified in writing.
2. Testing
Once an application is accepted by the Civil Service Commission, the applicant will be notified in writing of the next steps in the testing process. Each test phase must be passed in order to continue to the next level of the selection process. The examination for this position will consist of the following parts:
PARTS WEIGHT
ORAL EXAM 100%
It is the applicant's responsibility to adhere to the City's testing schedule. Unless otherwise stated, there will be no make-up examinations or alternative examination dates.
If an applicant fails the test, the applicant will be immediately eliminated from consideration for this hiring process.
Oral Test Date: *week of August 3rd, 2026
Test Time: To be Determined
Test Location: To be Determined
*Exam date may be subject to change
Unless otherwise notified, applicants are not permitted to bring and/or use calculators, electronic devices, books, or other reference materials during the examinations.
Reasonable Accommodations in the testing process:
All requests for reasonable accommodations in the testing process along with medical documentation establishing the need for the accommodation must be submitted to the City of Danbury Human Resources Department no later than the closing date of applications.
3. The Eligibility List
A passing average score of "70" on the above test will place an applicant on the Eligibility List in rank order. The rank on this list is established according to the scores on the exam(s) indicated above plus any additional applicable seniority points awarded. The resulting list is then certified by the Civil Service Commission and will be used to fill vacancies as they occur, as per Civil Service Rules.
If the list is not exhausted, it remains in effect for one year. However, the Commission can decide to extend an eligibility list for one additional year.
Participation in the testing and recruitment process and/or placement on an eligibility list does not guarantee a continuance in the remainder of the hiring process nor does it imply or constitute an offer of employment.
4. Additional Testing Requirements
Once the eligibility list is certified, depending on the number of vacancies, candidates with the highest ranking on the list will be interviewed by a panel of City Officials. As future positions become available, applicants are interviewed from this list based on their ranking for as long as the list is active.
DMEA 35
01
Do you possess a Master's in Library Science from an ALA-accredited graduate school?

• Yes
• No

02
Do you possess three to five (3-5) years of library work experience?