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We’re Hiring! Work With CMLE as a Part-Time School Library Contractor

We are looking to hire a part-time (10-15 hours per week) contractor to work with us through mid-June of 2021. We’re looking for someone familiar with K-12 schools in Minnesota who can help us connect our library services with the needs of our member school libraries.

You can get more information in the full posting here, but these are some of the qualities we are looking for in our contractor:

  • Someone who can move fast, identify problems, and help us to come up with solutions for our members. 
  • This job will require someone with experience in schools, and preferably in school libraries/media centers. 
  • We need someone who is a good communicator – online and in person, when necessary. 

We will work to keep in-person contacts to a minimum, in accordance with best practices and guidelines for working during the pandemic. 

The contractor will meet regularly with CMLE staff, to report on progress, clarify expectations, ask questions, and discuss plans.

Hourly pay: $20

Applicants for this position should submit a resume and a cover letter. Send your application to Mary Jordan: mary@cmle.org.

Please see our full posting for more information.

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How do you get a job?? (Hiring Series #6)

hiring
It’s so hard for everyone!

It’s a perpetual problem: Employers complain there are no good candidates applying for their jobs, and job hunters complain there are no good jobs.

Job hunting is just hard. Sorry. There are not going to be any easy strategies here, because they do not exist!

Don’t panic! We do have some suggestions from CMLE on ways you can get started looking for a job, and how to get through the hunt.

For our purposes, I are assuming you want to work in a library, or a library-adjacent job: archive, museum, etc. First: who would want to work anywhere else?? Second: you are part of a pretty specialized audience, reading a library system’s material. So I am just going to talk about libraries here; but if you know someone else who is job hunting in another area (gasp!), the advice will probably carry over to them. Continue reading How do you get a job?? (Hiring Series #6) →

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Recruiting to hire good people (Hiring Series #3)

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We need to get them to us before we can hire great employees!

Part of hiring great people is making sure that they are applying to your library! Without a pool of good candidates, you can’t make good people appear.

How do you get these good people? Like so many things: you need a plan. A solid recruiting plan will help you to bring in the good applicants, and give you the best kind of hard choice to make when hiring – picking among people who would all be good in your library.

It sounds hard. Where will you get the time? How will you know if it is working? What kinds of decisions should you be making?

CMLE is here to help you! We will walk through the basic steps of creating a plan here, so you can start working on your own plan for your library. Then, we are here to work with members to finalize their plans, to make decisions, and to help with the evaluation. Continue reading Recruiting to hire good people (Hiring Series #3) →

General, School Media Specialist

We’ve Learned

LightbulbThis announcement comes to us from the Elk River School District.

 

We have two (2) open full-time technology positions for a district-wide Site Computer Technician (working 8 hours per day 12 months per year). The postings closes 5/3/2015. Salary starts at $44,050. These are new positions created by passing a 10-year levy.

Site Computer Technician professionals work with the district technology support team and each of our school building technology/media staff to maintain district technology, assisting staff with technology needs throughout the district. The selected candidate will have experience managing Apple computers, Windows computers, iPads, Chromebooks, basic network administration, printers/multifunction devices, and typical K-12 software systems. The techs will be part of Chromebook 1:1 initiative aimed at rolling out Chromebooks for students in grade 6 through 12 over a 3-year plan starting this coming school year. 

For more information, visit http://www.applitrack.com/elkrivermn/onlineapp/jobpostings/view.asp?internaltransferform.Url&category=Technology&category=Technology 

Our Computer Technicians Benefits and Compensation Provisions 2013-2015 is available at the district’s website.

Also, toward June we will be posting additional paraprofessional Technology Assistant positions for the coming school year, working an 8 hour day on teacher contract days (190 days per year, mid-August through early June). Starting pay is $17.50 per hour. The Technology Assistant will work at their assigned building maintaining technology and assisting staff and students with technology needs throughout the site. I will send a follow-up email when these are posted.

Regards,

Joseph Samek  |  Manager of Technology, Elk River Area School District #728
office 763.241.3538  |  Mobile 763.238.5938 | Support 763.241.3400 x1300

General, Public, School Media Specialist

We've Learned

LightbulbWe’ve Learned….is designed to keep our readers informed about news concerning personnel in Central MN libraries/media centers. With 12 counties to monitor, we need your help! Please contact CMLE at any time you are aware of  staffing changes, job postings, awards, honors, accomplishments….you get the idea!

Awards/Honors

  • Zoma Olson, Elk River High School, received the Media Assistant of the Year Award at the ITEM Conference
  • Pam Beckermann, Dassel-Cokato Middle School, received the Media Specialist of the Year Award at the ITEM Conference
  • ECRL Resource Librarian Sarah Hawkins was elected as co-chair of the Reference and Adult Services Section (RASS) of the Minnesota Library Association at the MLA conference.
  • Barbara Misselt, ECRL Director,  is the new Legislative Committee Chair Elect.
  • Carla Lydon, ECRL Assistant Director, begins her second year as Member at Large of the MLA Board.

Job Opening

Mora Public Schools is seeking a district-wide technician to join their technology staff. See details below. If you know anyone who might be interested, please pass this information on to them.

Applications close October 23, 2014

Applitrack Posting: 

http://www.applitrack.com/mora/onlineapp/default.aspx?AppliTrackJobID=116&ref=

 

Further Documentation:

Posting​:  District Technician 2014 Posting

​Description ​​:  District Technician – Mora Public Schools

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