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A Career at Queens Library

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Join the Queens Library team.  We welcome enthusiastic professionals ready to meet the challenge of working in a fast-paced, culturally diverse environment.

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Queens Library (Queens Borough Public Library) has opportunities for people with creativity, drive and vision to join our team and help us provide cutting-edge library service in the world’s greatest city.

Who are you?  We’re inviting top-tier professionals to apply who have a strong passion for customer service. As much as an impressive resumé, we’re looking for team members who are truly committed to helping to achieve our strategic goals. Self-assured leaders with superb interpersonal skills and creative problem-solving ability are valued.

Who are we? Queens Library is known worldwide for creative public service, innovative library technology, diversity, outreach and dozens of “firsts” in the library world. We enrich lives. Queens Library’s circulation, attendance and other indicators consistently rank among the world’s highest. We serve a diverse urban community of 2.2 million from 62 library locations.

We’re also known worldwide for our excellent training, staff development, professional networking opportunities and the diversity of our professionals.

Where are we? Queens is the most middle-class and upwardly-mobile of NYC’s five counties. Our communities range from quiet family homes to the heart of the hip-hop culture to beautiful oceanfront to bustling ethnic enclaves. In Queens, you can be as little as 15 minutes from Times Square and all the excitement and cultural riches our City offers, linked to everywhere by an efficient public transportation system. People in Queens speak more than 100 languages and smile in all of them.

What we offer: Excellent salary and our comprehensive benefits package includes generous vacation/sick pay, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, pension, 401K, deferred compensation and more. Opportunities to further your education and professional credentials are plentiful.


Queens Library has had the highest circulation of any library for more than a decade, serving a population of two million in one of the nation’s most ethnically diverse counties. Our system, consisting of sixty-two branches and a Central Library, is well recognized for its innovative advances in technology, programs and services. We are looking for enthusiastic professionals ready to meet the challenge of working in a fast-paced, culturally diverse environment.

Queens Library is an Equal Opportunity Employer

How to Apply for a Job at the Queens Library

We appreciate your interest in considering opportunities with Queens Library. All resumes received are given careful and confidential consideration. Your resume will be reviewed against current vacancies. If there is a match, a representative from our Employment Team will contact you.

You may submit your resume to Queens Library by using one of the methods listed below. Candidate resumes should always include a cover letter with the position(s) for which you would like to be considered.

  1. E-mail your resume with cover letter to: employment@queenslibrary.org
  2. Fax your resume to: (718) 658-2919
  3. Mail your resume to:
    Queens Library
    Human Resources Department
    89-11 Merrick Boulevard,
    Jamaica, NY 11432

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