**The Position**:

- Are you eager to play a part in enriching your community by assisting the Ontario City Library in fostering lifelong reading, learning, and enjoyment? The Ontario City Library is seeking a proactive, collaborative individual to provide clerical and technical support to its operations. The Library Clerk role entails maintaining library materials and assisting library patrons.
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- _ Separate Promotional and Open (external) Eligibility Lists will be established._
- _ The Promotional Eligibility List will be comprised of current City employees (full or part-time) who meet the minimum qualifications and successfully complete any required selection processes._
- _ The Open Eligibility List will consist of external applicants who meet the minimum qualifications and successfully complete any required selection processes._

**The Community Life and Culture Agency**

The City of Ontario's Community Life & Culture Agency endeavors to meet the Ontario City Council goal to "encourage, provide or support enhanced recreational, educational, cultural and healthy city programs, policies and activities." Community Life & Culture does this through a comprehensive array of programs, activities, services and events available through the Housing Services, Library, Museum, Arts & Culture, and Recreation & Community Services Departments.
- The Ontario City Library has been serving the public as a City department since 1894. The Ovitt Family Community Library and Lewis Family Branch contain over 315,000 items, including books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, audio books, kits and a local history collection. A wide variety of technology is available for the public including internet, several software, eBooks, and state-of-the-art technology through Lightspeed makerspace that offers access to equipment such as 3D printers and a laser cutter. The library offers a wide variety of programs and services for all ages including early literacy, Veterans Resource Center, adult literacy tutoring, workforce development training, and the Robert E. Ellingwood Model Colony History Room.

The City of Ontario is a dynamic leading and growing community in the Inland Empire with a variety of full-time and part-time employment and volunteer opportunities. Ontario is proud to have the reputation of being a progressive City providing solid leadership to its citizens and to the business community. The City provides a full range of services to the community including Police, Fire, Management Services, Community Life & Culture, Community Development, Economic Development, Public Works, Financial Services, Human Resources/ Risk Management and the Ontario Municipal Utilities Company. The City's team is staffed with approximately 1,517 full-time equivalent diverse and talented employees who work to support a common goal of providing excellent service to the community.

We invite you to learn more about the City of Ontario by reviewing the City's website including the City’s 2024 State of the City Address to learn more about the exciting opportunities this position will play in the vital growth of the City in becoming the Premier Community of the Inland Empire

**2024 State of the City** **(Video link)**
**Ontario Plan** (The City’s Comprehensive Business Plan for Development)**
**Approach to Public Service** (Download PDF reader)** (Core Values for City of Ontario Employees)**
**Smart Ontario** (Information about recent City projects)**
**Downtown Ontario** (What to do in Downtown Ontario)**

**Examples of Essential Functions**:
**The essential functions typically performed by the Library Clerk include the following**:

- Serves at public circulation desks checking library materials into and out of circulation, registering library patrons, collecting fines, and handling basic monetary transactions.
- Assists the public by explaining basic library procedures for registration, circulation of library materials, and locating library items as needed.
- Explains procedures for the late return of library materials and prepares delinquent materials and reports for collections.
- Provides technical assistance to customers using electronic resources.
- Prepares and maintains reports, records, monthly statistics, activity reports, and other materials as necessary.
- Elicits cooperation of library patrons in observing library rules and regulations.
- May inspect, clean, and mend library materials; may assist in selecting, ordering, processing, and distributing library materials and supplies; may assist in copy cataloging of library materials; and may drive library vehicles to deliver materials to branch locations.
- Shelves library books and materials.

**Qualification Guidelines**:
**Education**

High school diploma or recognized equivalent.

**Experience**

Six months of clerical support or retail support experience.

**Licenses**

Valid Class C California driver's license and an acceptable driving record at time of appointment and throughout e