Also, let's hope Hadley Regional Library has done their due dilligence before rejecting Claire...
Well ... I'm a Northampton resident who spent a few years as an elected trustee on my town's library board. Two takeaways on that:
(1) In western Massachusetts, there are a LOT of very qualified people chasing not a whole lot of library openings. Quite a few of the small-town librarians have been in their posts for decades. What a number of people do is snatch at 15-20 hour part time gigs, either in combination with jobs outside of library work, or if they're (relatively) fortunate, more than one part time library job. Sometimes in widely separate towns. With changing shifts, this isn't all that comfortable a lifestyle.
(2) Ironically enough -- or else Jeph's keeping track of local matters in this county -- the town of Hadley built a new library, about four times the size of the previous postage stamp building, which probably served the small town very well in the days before UMass turned Hadley into its three-mile long shopping mall. The new building just went into business last month, so likely they *were* hiring.