North Arlington Library
Public Library · Bergen County
North Arlington Library is a confirmed New Jersey civil service jurisdiction — a public library in Bergen County that has adopted Title 11A of the New Jersey Statutes to govern how it hires, classifies, and promotes employees.
Bergen County has 50 confirmed civil service jurisdictions in total, including this one.
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 50 civil service jurisdictions in Bergen County, or browse the full employer directory.
Pension and salary data for North Arlington Library
North Arlington Library's staff appear on North Arlington Borough's pension rolls: 85 enrolled members, a median pensionable salary of $78,255 and a median 10.6 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 Bergen County for the ones that do report, or how we compile this.
Other public employers in North Arlington Borough
The pension system reports these separate public employers in North Arlington Borough. 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 |
|---|---|
| NORTH ARLINGTON BD OF ED | 264 |
| NORTH ARLINGTON BOROUGH | 85 |
What civil service status means for jobs at North Arlington 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.
New Jersey does not require an employer to hire whoever scored highest. When a list is certified, the appointing authority may choose among the top three interested candidates, which is why a rank of two or three on a list is still a serious position and why interviews still decide outcomes.
When there is no eligible list for a title, an employer can fill the job provisionally. Provisional service is real work at real pay, but it builds no permanent rights, and the employer is supposed to request an examination so the position can be filled permanently. Anyone appointed provisionally who wants to keep the job needs to take that examination when it comes.
Civil service employers in North Arlington Borough
North Arlington Library serves North Arlington Borough, a borough in Bergen County, but it is in the listing as a public library on its own account rather than as part of the borough government.
The North Arlington Borough government is listed too: North Arlington Borough. 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 North Arlington Borough body is listed as well, which puts three separate civil service employers inside one town.
- North Arlington 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 Bergen County
Bergen County holds 50 confirmed jurisdictions in the Commission's listing: 21 municipalities, 20 public libraries, 4 boards of health, 1 board of social services, 1 county government, 1 housing authority, 1 school district, and 1 municipal utilities authority.
21 of the county's 70 municipalities are among them.
Bergen 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: Elmwood Park Borough, Elmwood Park Library, Fair Lawn, Fair Lawn Library, Fairview, Fairview Library, Fort Lee, Fort Lee Library. See all 50 in Bergen County.
Common questions about North Arlington Library
Is North Arlington Library a civil service employer?
Yes. North Arlington 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 North Arlington Library cover the rest of North Arlington Borough?
No. North Arlington Borough 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.