Vantaggi
Lots of great passionate staff. Secure funding. Good salaries.
Svantaggi
It seemed like most of the leadership team was more focused on looking for problems and prevention, rather than progress and serving the community. They really suffer from the issue of promoting people who are good at their job until they are in a position they can't do. Then they are stuck there providing poor leadership. The leadership team almost seems worried that people will realize they are unqualified, so they overcompensate by asserting authority and micromanaging. The library tends to lose its brightest staff because new staff tend to be seen as threats to tenured leadership. Leadership can be very condescending to lower staff. Even if you get an immediate manager who appreciates your skills, you will likely be hampered by their boss. Benefits are not great. The HR department thinks allowing FMLA (which is required by law) is "very generous" for maternity leave. So mothers can go through their minimal accrued leave then take unpaid leave. Of course those tenured staff in charge would think that's generous because they have years of accrued leave equating to hundreds of hours. They are so out of touch they can't comprehend what the average staff person needs.