DOS - LIBRARY PROGRAM SPECIALIST - 45000250

Requisition No: 862340 

Agency: Department of State

Working Title: DOS - LIBRARY PROGRAM SPECIALIST - 45000250

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 45000250 

Salary:  $48,436.48 

Posting Closing Date: 10/23/2025 

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Department of State

Division of Library and Information Services

Bureau of Library and Network Services

Librarian Program Specialist – Position # 45000250

Open Competitive

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Six years of direct professional experience or Master's degree can substitute.
• One year of library cataloging experience.

PREFERENCES:

• Master’s degree in library and information science from a nationally accredited program.
• One year of original cataloging experience.
• Knowledge of rules and procedures for bibliographic control.
• Knowledge of rules and principles for organizing, cataloging, maintaining and providing access to library materials.
• Experience working with state or federal documents.
• Strong technology skills including Microsoft Office products and automated library systems.

Special Note:

Responses to qualifying questions must be clearly supported in your employment history.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acts as a liaison to state entities to ensure receipt of Legislatively mandated reports and their addition to the library’s bibliographic database. Coordinates the development and visibility of the state reports collection. Produces required reports and lists.
• Responsible for the maintenance and addition of electronic versions of state publications to the state catalog, monitoring the electronic holdings, and coordinating database changes.
• Performs complex original cataloging of library materials in all formats for the library’s collections and performs maintenance of bibliographic, serial and authority records in library catalog.
• Performs other work-related duties as required. 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Knowledge of rules and principles for organizing, cataloging, maintaining, and providing access to library materials.
• Knowledge of automated library systems
• Ability to work with, and search, a variety of computer applications.
• Ability to perform extended data entry
• Ability to lift and process boxes of books that may weigh up to 20 pounds
• Ability to bend and reach to shelve materials.
• Ability to climb and descend stairs.
• Ability to push loaded book trucks.

CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: A Level 2 criminal background check is a condition of employment. If selected for this position, you must provide your fingerprints. We will send your fingerprints to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a criminal background check.

IMPORTANT NOTICES: We are committed to enhancing our workforce through the employment of Veterans, individuals with disabilities and seek qualified candidates with diverse backgrounds, abilities, skills and talents to join our workforce.

Male applicants born on or after January 1, 1960, will not be eligible for hire or promotion unless they are registered with the Selective Services System (SSS) before their 26th birthday, or have a Letter of Registration Exemption from the SSS. For more information, please visit the SSS website: https://www.sss.gov.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.