Bloomfield Library
Public Library · Essex County
Bloomfield Library, a public library in Essex County, operates under New Jersey's Title 11A civil service system rather than setting its own hiring rules independently.
Within Essex County, 33 local government entities in total carry this same confirmed status.
About public libraries in New Jersey
Many New Jersey public libraries are set up as legally separate entities from the municipality that funds them, with their own board and their own personnel decisions. That separation is why a town and its library can end up with different civil service status even though most residents think of them as the same organization.
See all 33 civil service jurisdictions in Essex County, or browse the full employer directory.
Pension and salary data for Bloomfield Library
Bloomfield Library's staff appear on Bloomfield's pension rolls: 355 enrolled members, a median pensionable salary of $85,848 and a median 9.8 years of credited service. Only 15 of New Jersey's library systems report as their own pension employer, so a library's payroll is usually inside its municipality's.
See every civil service jurisdiction in Essex County for the ones that do report, or how we compile this.
Other public employers in Bloomfield Township
The pension system reports these separate public employers in Bloomfield Township. Each is its own employer for pension purposes, and only some are civil service jurisdictions — school boards, charter schools and parking authorities are ordinary public employers that were never part of Title 11A. Names link only where the body appears in this directory.
| Employer | Enrolled members |
|---|---|
| BLOOMFIELD TWP BD OF ED | 824 |
| BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP | 355 |
What civil service status means for jobs at Bloomfield Library
A New Jersey public library is usually a legally separate employer from the town that funds it, run by its own board of trustees, with its own director and its own hiring. That separation is why a library and its municipality can end up on opposite sides of the civil service line even though residents think of them as one government.
The library ladder is defined statewide. Librarian 1 through Librarian 4 are the professional titles, and they carry a real credential floor: a master's degree from an ALA-accredited library school plus a New Jersey Professional Librarian Certificate. Below that line sit the library assistant, library associate and library page titles, where education and experience take the place of the MLS.
Not every position at a civil service employer is competitive. The classified service is divided into competitive, noncompetitive and labor titles, and above that sits the unclassified service, which covers department heads, confidential aides and similar positions filled without an examination. Which division a title sits in decides how you get it, so read the specification before assuming there is an exam.
Your title, not your assignment, defines what you are supposed to be doing. If the duties you actually perform drift outside the specification for the title you hold, that is a classification question rather than a management preference, and an employee can ask for the position to be reviewed and reclassified. It is one of the quieter protections in the system and one of the least used.
Civil service employers in Bloomfield Township
Bloomfield Library serves Bloomfield Township, a township in Essex County, but it is in the listing as a public library on its own account rather than as part of the township government.
The Bloomfield Township government is listed too: Bloomfield. Both run under Title 11A, and both certify their own appointments, so applying to one tells you nothing about openings at the other.
One further Bloomfield Township body is listed as well, which puts three separate civil service employers inside one town.
- Bloomfield Board of Health, board of health
Civil service titles used by New Jersey public libraries
Real classifications that New Jersey public libraries draw on, each linked to its official specification: the definition of the work, the requirements, and any licence the title depends on. A sample of the system rather than a roster or a list of openings.
Civil service coverage across Essex County
Essex County holds 33 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 11 public libraries, 11 municipalities, 5 municipal departments, 2 housing authorities, 1 board of health, 1 county government, 1 fire district, and 1 school district.
11 of the county's 22 municipalities are among them.
Essex County is a jurisdiction too, though a county's decision does not bind the towns, authorities, libraries or districts inside it.
Also in the directory: Belleville, Belleville Library, Bloomfield, Bloomfield Board of Health, East Orange, East Orange Library, Irvington, Irvington Housing Authority. See all 33 in Essex County.
Common questions about Bloomfield Library
Is Bloomfield Library a civil service employer?
Yes. Bloomfield Library appears in the New Jersey Civil Service Commission's listing of local civil service system jurisdictions as of July 2024, which makes it an appointing authority under Title 11A. Permanent appointments to competitive titles there come from eligible lists the Commission certifies, rather than from purely local hiring.
Does civil service status at Bloomfield Library cover the rest of Bloomfield Township?
No. Bloomfield Township has more than one employer in the listing, and each holds its own status, runs its own examinations and keeps its own eligible lists. Seniority and permanent status earned at one do not transfer automatically to another, even inside the same town.
Is there always a written test?
No. New Jersey runs both assembled examinations, where candidates are scheduled to sit a test, and unassembled ones, where a reviewer scores your education and experience against the requirements in the specification and there is no test day at all. The announcement says which kind it is. For an unassembled examination the application itself is the examination, so how fully you describe your experience is the score.
Do you have to live in New Jersey to work here?
Generally yes. The New Jersey First Act requires public employees hired after September 1, 2011 to live in the state, with a grace period for new hires to relocate and a narrow exemption process. Separately, individual examination announcements sometimes carry a local residency preference, which affects the order of the list rather than eligibility.