About this role
The work we do matters! Hiring Agency: Correctional Services - Agency 46 Location: Omaha, NE Hiring Rate: $24.629 Job Posting: JR2026-00028177 Corrections Librarian - Omaha Correctional Center (Open) Applications No Longer Accepted On (If no date is displayed, job is posted as open until closed): 08-06-2026 Job Description: The Nebraska Department of Correctional Services (NDCS) employs nearly 2,300 team members operating institutions statewide, which house approximately 5,800 inmates. The department's focus includes inmate programming and education, physical and behavioral health care, re-entry services, and community programs, and is accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA).
Currently, the Omaha Correctional Center is seeking a self-motivated, results-driven candidate in the position of Corrections Librarian. The Librarian incumbent will model the NDCS values of integrity, respect, compassion, growth, and excellence as we accomplish our mission, "Keep people safe." Information about the Department can be found at: www.corrections.nebraska.gov. For more information call 402-522-7008. For Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accommodations, please contact Megan Jones at [email protected] . DUTIES: Under limited supervision, manages the library services and operations within a correctional institution including both a recreational library and a legal library. Duties include maintaining circulation; conducting inter-library loans; procuring, processing, and cataloging books and other materials such as periodicals, CDs, DVDs, materials, documents, images and supplies. Incumbents provide day-to-day library services in a variety of library operations; supervise and assist inmates and inmate workers, and performs related work as required or assigned.
Requirements / Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: Post high school coursework/training in library science and experience in providing library services and serving the library users.
Preferred Qualifications: Correctional experience.
Other: Applicants accepting a job offer must pass the following pre-employment exams in this order: medical exam, and at a randomly announced time, pass a drug test. Once at the Staff Training Academy, must successfully complete the fully paid NE Corrections Training Program to include CPR, first aid, and self-defense tactics.
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