DO BETTER - Anonymous employee Linda Hall Library Employee Review

Linda Hall Library offers competitive salaries, nice people to work with, and an environment dedicated to science and engineering. If you want to work somewhere that will value you as an individual and for your contributions to the team, Linda Hall Library is an outstanding option.

I can't think of any downside.

The benefits are good. The PTO is generous. It's a small nonprofit that is very welcoming.

This place is depressing and it isn't getting better. Half of the library workers are searching for an exit. Collection and maintenance budgets are cut. Budgets for people with library responsibilities are cut, but they are asked to do more. Meanwhile departments that deal in marketing and events and soliciting donations are cruising along fine. When I got hired, a librarian was the president. The library was proud of its library staff and specialized collection. There were a few marketing and donor workers to highlight the collection, but the library collection was the priority. They used to reward staff with almost monthly breakfast and lunches to create a sense of community within departments. Linda Hall used to pay more than other libraries in the area. Not a lot more but it was better. I used to recommend it to friends in other libraries. None of this is the case anymore. Now it's an event space with a collection as an afterthought. We collect less scientific journals. Instead they are talking about collecting science fiction books like the ones people can already get from the public library down the road. So much for being an academic research library! Managers that were against these changes were fired or demoted. Communication is worse than its ever been despite promises to make it better.