Programs
Employment Opportunities
Now Hiring!
LIBRARY CLERK
Library Clerk applications are always accepted and will be reviewed when a vacancy occurs.
Part-time, up to 25 hours per week
$8.51 per hour
Responsibilities of the position include:
- Perform searches and update patron and/or item records
- Check in, check out, reserve, and request library items in accordance with the library’s established policies and procedures
- Clean, reshelf, shelf-read, and shift physical collection as needed
- Administer new library cards in accordance with established policies and procedures
- Answer telephone calls, take messages, and notify patrons by phone when appropriate
- Use register system to collect fines due on patron accounts
- Inspect materials returned for damage and/or missing components
- Maintain the confidentiality of all patrons
- Assist in opening or closing the library as needed
- Clean any and all rooms of the library
- Other duties and/or projects as assigned
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required
- Previous experience in customer service preferred
- Prior experience working in libraries a plus
- Strong grasp of the English language
- Ability to handle money and credit card transactions
Applications for interested applicants are available at the library or downloaded. Return applications at the library’s circulation desk or send to director@fisherlibrary.org
About
Our Mission
The E.G. Fisher Public Library builds community, offering all people in McMinn County a full range of resources needed to live, learn, govern, and work.
The library is a dependable source of reliable information and of challenging ideas that enlighten and enrich. The library offers materials in many formats that enhance leisure time and expand our knowledge of our world. The library encourages the love of reading and the joy of learning and offers the assistance people need to find, evaluate, and use electronic and print information resources that help us live successful and rewarding lives.
Websites For Everyone
Recommended Sites on the Internet
Below are topics linked to pages that contain lists of related website links. Please be aware that the information found in these links may change without our notice. E. G. Fisher does not take responsibility for the content on these websites.
Websites For Children
The librarians at E. G. Fisher have put together this list of websites for school age children. Here you’ll find websites for brain games, websites for learning to read, websites for homework help and websites that have really cool stuff. Parents, please be aware that the information found in these links may change without our notice. E. G. Fisher does not take responsibility for the content on these websites. The best way to keep your children safe on the Internet is to be involved in their web use. The Firefly browser, available through Luciboo, filters web content for child appropriate material. You can download it to your computer to help keep your children safe on the web.
Day by Day Family Literacy Calendar
AR BookFinder
Searching for Accelerated Reader books is fun and easy with this free online tool.
Tel4U
Tel4U is a resource for children in grades K-5. It has homework help, state information, coloring pages, games, activities and much more.
The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC) has released three Summer Reading lists to keep children engaged all summer. Lists are available for K-8 students.
National Geographic Kids
Go here for games, blogs from kids all over the world, cool facts and photos of animals and all sorts of fun things to do.
Starfall
Starfall is great site full of games for the beginning reader.
PBS Kids
Find games and activities with all your favorite characters from PBS — Elmo, Martha Speaks, Arthur and more.
USA.gov/education
This is a great site for finding stuff you won’t find anywhere else. Check out the Geospatial Intelligence Kids Agency. This is also a great place to go to find facts about any of the 50 states.
Library of Congress – Kids and Families
From the Library of Congress, this site is full of information and fun for kids and parents alike.
Brain Pop
Find games and information on everything from the arts to the sciences to health and technology.
Liberty’s Kids
Associated with PBS, this is the website for the program Liberty’s Kids. It has games, activities and biographies from the show.
