Pros
Flexible hours for part timers and hourly. Great job for people currently in school. Also good for those who enjoy stable, predictable day to day work. It is a very decent first job and the best take away are the great people who you get to meet and work with.
Cons
This review was long overdue but in short, NYPL has come such a long way DOWN from it's glory days. They expect employees to do way more for a lot less! Low pay and the only thing that grows in that place is impatience. They have effectively kicked out 85% of dedicated, seasoned librarians and managers to bring in new "bottom line driven" managers who obsess over branch stats and will stop at nothing for them. On the other side of the coin you have lazy employees who manage to screw the system and their coworker's in the process. The Union is the biggest punchline to the joke with Union reps who actually WORK in HR. SMH. NYPL truly needs a reality TV show with all the internal organizational politics they have. But if oh how the funders who freak if they knew the going ons behind the public doors.......