Pros
Coworkers become your lifelong friends.. Community appreciation. You bond with the community you serve, if you're allowed to work at a branch for any length of time. It's relatively easy, at most branches, to get requested days off. Used to be an awesome place to work until September of 2014.
Cons
Employee moral is horrible! New director, Ingrid Norris not Ana Grandfield as listed, has become a dictator and does not care about community intimacy. Board of directors has a former head of the library on it who is a colleague of the current director. There is no impartiality. Over a dozen long-time employees jumped ship the day before the new director took the helm. Administration does not understand the trust and respect long-time employees earn within the community they serve. Mistakenly believes patrons don't care who works there as long as they can get the items they want. Employees are used like pawns in a chess game to anger anyone who questions decisions made by the administration. Only those who will follow every order are hired for management jobs. Newly promoted, young, reference librarians.who were educated in under-performing high schools are an embarrassment. It's obvious that good grammar and spelling aren't required to be a reference librarian.They perpetuate their horrible oral and writing skills as they "help" the public.