Branch Manager

Branch Manager

The Hanover Public Library is seeking a Branch Manager to join our team. As a busy library serving the rural town of Hanover in the Grey Bruce area, we are looking for a candidate who is passionate about teamwork, open communication and engaging staff as well as the community. You will work with a friendly and supportive team providing excellent public library services. Your role includes assisting the CEO with managing staff and providing administrative support to the Board.  We are seeking a qualified individual who has experience in leading a team and who is excited about work place culture.  Strong organization and administrative skills are required to maintain procedures, policies, statistics, staff schedules and board minutes.  Flexibility to be able to perform your duties as well as support the library staff is required. Our single site library offers flexible shifts, staff input to strategic direction and events, a variety of duties and a friendly team. This position is full time with OMERS pension plan and other benefits available.

Responsibilities

  • Support the CEO in the coordination of day-to-day branch activities and operations
  • Maintain procedures and policies for the library
  • Creates an engaging and supportive workplace for the library team
  • Assists with budgeting and finances of the library, including cash deposits, grant applications, fundraising efforts etc
  • Coordinates and oversees a program or service such as the homebound service
  • Maintains the Tourism Department for the Town of Hanover
  • Provide circulation, reference, research and technical assistance to library patrons, including readers’ advisory and support for the public using computers and the Internet
  • Stay up-to-date with current trends and best practices in library services and technology
  • Other duties in support of the library as they arise

Requirements

  • Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science
  • Minimum 5 years experience in a library position
  • Minimum 3 years experience in a leadership or management position
  • Minimum 5 years in a customer service position

Skills and Abilities:

  • Excellent communication skills for public service interactions and staff leadership
  • Customer service skills including empathy, patience, adaptability, persuasiveness, positive attitude and calmness
  • Ability to establish and maintain friendly and effective working relationships with customers, employees, volunteers, community groups and other agencies
  • Understanding of human resources principles and the ability to mediate effectively
  • Proficiency with Windows, Microsoft Office Suite, Internet, social media networks and email
  • Computer skills sufficient to learn and perform the functions of the automated Library system
  • Effective numeracy skills and familiarity with spreadsheets
  • Accuracy and attention to detail
  • Self-motivation and ability to exercise independent judgement
  • Wide range of reading interests and ability to assess and guide people’s reading development
  • Problem solving skills
  • Organizational and time management skills, ability to manage multiple tasks
  • Understanding of public library operational processes and systems
  • The Library will require a current Vulnerable Sector Screening from the successful applicant

Remuneration

Wage range: $29.03/hr to $33.76/hr as per the current Town of Hanover Salary Grid, Group 9

How to Apply

Detailed job descriptions :

Please submit a complete resume and cover letter relating to the required qualifications and skills in the job description, by 9pm on Wednesday, April 17th. Send to (preferably by email):

Carolyn Caskanette
(C.E.O./ Chief Librarian)
Hanover Public Library
451 10th Avenue, Hanover, Ontario N4N 2P1
Email: ccaskanette@hanover.ca

The Hanover Public Library is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in the workplace. The library will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. Applicants selected for interview must make their accessibility needs known in advance to ensure your equal participation. All personal information is collected under the authority of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and will be used solely for candidate selection.
We thank each applicant for their interest. However, only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

Summer Program Assistants

The Hanover Public Library is hiring Summer Program Assistants!

We are looking for enthusiastic and creative individuals to join our team during the summer months. As Program Assistants, the candidates will be working with our Child and Youth Services Librarian to provide engaging and educational programming to children and teens in our community.

Start date and hours are flexible, and will consist of primarily week days from 9am to 3pm, but may also include the occasional weekend or evening shift.

Duties and responsibilities:

  • Assist with the library’s annual Summer Reading Club: helping to provide a variety of literacy-based activities, contests, and challenges both online, and in-person
  • Provide reading support for children and youth: offering help selecting books, setting goals, and tracking individual progress
  • Assist with planning, promoting, and running events for families within the community, while partnering with other local organizations and businesses
  • Provide technology assistance to library users, including youth and seniors

Our preferred candidate would:

  • Enjoy, and have experience working with children
  • Have excellent computer skills, be familiar with internet services and social media platforms, and be comfortable creating online media content
  • Be patient, calm, confident, and creative, and able to communicate well with people of all ages
  • Have a clean vulnerable sector police reference check

As required by Young Canada Works (YCW), the candidate MUST have been a full time student in the semester before the YCW job, and intend to return to full time studies in the semester after the summer. For additional grant requirements please visit the Young Canada Works website: https://young-canada-works.canada.ca/

Position:

Duration – 12 weeks; flexible; mid-June to end of August

Hours – average 30 hours/week

Pay Rate – $18.70/hour

You can apply by emailing the library directly or through the Young Canada Works website. Please contact us if you have questions about the job or the application process.

To apply, send:

  • a cover letter,
  • your résume
  • a brief outline of programming ideas to keep children and youth engaged and reading throughout the summer

Apply by end of day on Friday, May 24th 2024

Attention: Carolyn Caskanette

Hanover Public Library, 451 10th Ave, Hanover ON N4N 2P1

Tel: 519 364 1420 Email: ccaskanette@hanover.ca

Fax: 519 364 1747 Web: www.hanoverlibrary.ca

Seed Library

Seed Library

What is the Seed Library?

Blueberry in a pile of seed packages.

Our Seed Library is a free service of the Hanover Public Library. You do not need to be a member to enjoy this service. Our aim is to foster well being and community through the sharing of resources. Just like a Public Library, a Seed Library works on the basis of borrowing seeds for free. You can return any unused seeds back to the Library as long as they are in their original package. We provide a wide range of organic and heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs. Looking for something specific? Ask the front desk staff today!

How Does it Work?

Visitors are allowed to take up to 5 packets of seeds per visit. This allows us to service as many people as possible. Select any combination of up to 5 packages, then use the provided check-out cards to write the types of seeds you are taking and hand the card into the front desk staff. This allows us to keep track of what we need to replenish.

How do I “Return” my seeds?

We will take back any unused seeds as long as they are dry, clean and in the original package. We also can accept any donations of new packages of seeds including: vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits. You can drop off your donations to the Library front desk staff.

Why do we need a Seed Library?

According to the Grey Bruce Public Health Unit 1 in 6 households in Grey-Bruce are food insecure. They also reported that 1 in 5 children living in Grey-Bruce live in a food insecure household. Being food insecure means that these households do not have enough money to buy food. By having a free Seed Library and providing the community with the knowledge and tools to grow their own food, we can begin to reduce the number of suffering families and create a food stable community.

Pepperjack sits behind a growing stock of basil.

Growing Tips!

Some Seeds like to be started indoors

  • Start these seeds inside according to the time on the packet. Plant them in good quality soil near a bright window or light source
  • Before you take your plants fully outside they need to be hardened off. This means taking them outside for a few hours each day gradually increasing the length of time. This allows them to be exposed to wind and sun which will toughen them up.
  • Examples: Tomatoes, Peppers, Celery and Eggplant.

Plants like Space

  • Start these plants outside as directed on the packet.
  • Example: Peas, Carrots, Corn and Onions.

Some seeds like to be started outdoors

  • In small spaces only plant 1 of each type of plant. Ex. one pepper plant and one tomato plant
  • In larger spaces keep different varieties of the same plant away from each other to avoid cross pollination

List of seeds currently available

  • Beans
  • Beets
  • Cabbage
  • Carrots
  • Cauliflower
  • Celery
  • Corn
  • Cucumber
  • Eggplant
  • Flowers
  • Herbs
  • Kohl Rabi
  • Leafy Greens
  • Leeks
  • Melons
  • Onions
  • Peas
  • Peppers
  • Pumpkin
  • Radishes 
  • Rutabaga 
  • Sprouts
  • Swiss Chard
  • Squash 
  • Tomatoes
  • Turnip, 
  • Zucchini 

How to place holds on Koha

How to place holds on Koha


How to place holds using the online catalogue

It’s easy to request items or “place holds” online! There are 4 basic steps.

If you don’t have a username and password for your library account, or you’ve forgotten what it is, contact us! You can come by the library, call us at 519-364-1420, or e-mail us at hanpub@hanover.ca.

Once you have your username and password, visit the library’s website: hanoverlibrary.ca

Step 1: Find Koha

On the left side of the page, you will see a blue square with the word “koha” on it. Click on the word ‘koha.” If you have a phone or small tablet, scroll down to find “koha” below the menu.

screen shot how to place holds first step

Step 2: Log in to your account

On the right hand side of the screen is a place for you to sign into your account. Enter your username and password and click log in.

Log in to your account screen shot how to place holds log in screen

Step 3: Find items

Now you can see what’s available and place holds on items you want to borrow. You can search by title, author, or subject.

Browse the quick links

If you want to see what’s new in our collection, click on Home and scroll down to the list of links.

screen shot how to place holds quick links screen

Use the search bar

You can also use the search bar to search for a specific item. We will search for “Summer Island” by Kristin Hannah.

screen shot how to place holds. simple search bar

If you want to learn more about the item, click on the title.

how to place holds screen shot results summer island

Step 4: Place the hold

Click on “Place hold” to put the item on hold. Your name will be added to the list of patrons waiting to borrow this item when it is available.

how to place holds page screen shot  detail page summer island

Click “Confirm hold.”

how to place holds. screen shot confirm hold screen.

You will now see the confirmation page.

how to place holds. screen shot summary screen.

You will receive an phone call or e-mail when the item is ready for you to pick up.


Changing your password

When signing into your account for the first time, be sure to change your password to something only you know, not something that will be easy for someone else to guess.

Scroll down your account page until you see the link “Change my password,” and click on that link.

Follow the prompts to change and confirm your password.

You are now ready to place holds!

how to place holds.screen shot change your password screen.

Ready to place your holds? Choose a selection below!

New fiction

New non-fiction

New DVDs

New large print

Children’s

No More Late Fees for Children’s Items


Children’s items are now fine-free!

The Hanover Public Library is pleased to announce that for 2023, we will not be charging late fees on overdue children’s items. You heard that right!

We know how important it is to introduce children to reading, so with that in mind our library Board has decided to stop charging fines on overdue children’s materials.

Families with children might borrow a lot of items at once so a daily fine per item that is overdue adds up very quickly, which is unfair. We want to remove that barrier because we know that introducing children to books at a young age sets them up for success in life. We want to encourage everyone to introduce their children to reading!

We will continue to charge for children’s items that are lost or damaged.

We will still be charging fines on young adult and adult materials so items are returned promptly and we can continue to serve everyone efficiently.

Mom and child reading a children's book together.

Territory Acknowledgement

Territory Acknowledgement

We wish to acknowledge and honour the land upon which this library stands as the historic and Traditional Territory of the Anishinabek Nation. We recognize and thank The People of the Three Fires, known as Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottawatomie Nations. And further give thanks to the Chippewas of Saugeen, and the Chippewas of Nawash, known collectively as the Saugeen Ojibway Nation.

Map showing Traditional Territory of the Saukiing Anishnaabekiing Saugeen Ojibway Nation Treaties.

Learning about treaties & how they continue to shape the province today is an important part of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Read more about the history of treaties in The Saugeen Ojibway Nation at: https://www.saugeenojibwaynation.ca/resources

In recognition that municipal boundaries are an ongoing colonial construct that ignores First Nations traditional territories, First Nations people with a status card or band membership of a local First Nation, and who are living in the traditional Saugeen Ojibway Nation lands, including Treaty 45 1/2, will be entitled to free library membership. In the spirit of original treaties, the library shall share its resources with mutual respect. The Hanover Public Library will continue to provide books and materials by First Nations and Indigenous authors in its collection. 

These actions are a part of the Hanover Public Library’s mission as a welcoming and upbeat community hub that fosters lifelong learning.

Watch a Storytime With Stephanie on YouTube

Watch Storytime With Stephanie on YouTube

Join in online, anytime to watch a Storytime with Stephanie. All books presented are from our library, so check the library catalogue to place holds.

Watch most recent episode of storytime here: https://youtu.be/f_jSz46uBzY

Enjoy the full playlist of Storytime videos here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBp1u2MpsNPgqiyOySe5JdJAFL_k1voXr

Loved the book that was read? Place a hold on it from our library catalogue!

Go to the Library Catalogue

Family Trivia

March Break Activities. Links to Kid's page.

Kahoot Family Trivia

Friday March 18th | 1:00 pm

Join us on Kahoot to test your Disney knowledge! Register your family team by emailing sperkins@hanover.ca. All participants will be entered into a draw for our March Break basket, and the winning team will get a prize of their own.

Prenda Coding Club Launch!

March Break Activities. Links to Kid's page.

Prenda Coding Club Launch!

Wednesday March 16th

Come be our beta testers for this new coding program!

No coding knowledge is necessary. Spots are limited and must be reserved in advance. Email sperkins@hanover.ca to register.