P/T - Librarian - Snug Harbor Cultural Center

Position: Cultural Center Librarian
Job Description: Reference and cataloging. Maintaining lists for the website.
Hours: Part-time, 3 days a week, 12-15 hours per week
Pay: Commensurate with experience
Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island


Through our programs and services, the Columcille Irish Cultural Center promotes the knowledge and awareness of the Irish people's history, and our contribution to the development of the New York City metropolitan area. In addition, we serve as a public facility and forum to showcase our Irish heritage and the impact of the Irish in America.

We do this by:

* Providing public access to our library consisting of nearly one thousand books covering Irish
History and poetry, hundreds of recordings, tapes, CD-ROM’s, numerous artifacts and memorabilia.
* Providing an annual Irish Historical Scholarship of two thousand dollars open to all eighth grade
school children of Staten Island.
* Holding an annual Staten Ireland Irish Fair initiated 1999. This two day cultural event provides a
public venue for Irish crafts, music, dance, food and history.
* Providing an Irish Honor Guard, available upon request at no charge to the general public for
ceremonial functions.
* Providing Irish Ceili Set Dancing classes.
* Presentations of plays based on Irish Culture.
* Presentations of books and poetry readings by Irish/Irish American authors.
* Providing Irish musical instrument instructions.
* Organizing and sponsoring numerous cultural tours to places of historical Irish/Irish American value
such as the coal mines of Pennsylvania (home of the Molly Maguire’s) and the Battlefields of Antietam.


If interested in this position, please contact Thomas Mannix by email tommieaoh@aol.com.