Since budget cuts and a hiring freeze in May 2003 forced public libraries to drastically reduce their hours, the statewide system has been gradually restoring services.
The hiring freeze has been lifted, allowing the libraries to bring back about 85 of the 200 hours a week initially cut.
However, while the system has brought in 217 new staff members, employees are leaving the libraries in greater numbers and the number of vacancies is higher than it was before the freeze. Honolulu Advertiser Has More.
Not likely to fill those slots soon
Hawaii has the most unusual regulation about residence. You must be resident in the state when you apply. Not when you take the job but when you apply. The state website where the position is listed still has this requirement.
That, the fact that the pay is similar to the mainland but the cost of living is 160% of the mainland, and the bizarre requirement that the applicant pay for his own medical examination is just surreal.
They wonder why they can’t keep professional librarians.
Re:Not likely to fill those slots soon 🙂 The low salary is another matter. Slightly more than $40,000 per year won’t go far.
According to the recruitment bulletin, the resident-at-time-of-application requirement has been waived for these positions. You still have to live in Hawai’i to work there, but this makes sense considering the alternative of commuting.
Re:Not likely to fill those slots soon
I saw the requirement waived about a year or 18 months ago but the positions remained posted since then. Very odd.