MnIndy job tip: Alaska is hiring a state librarian

You have until Sept. 22 to apply for the position of Alaska state librarian. The job pays as much as $8,049 per month, and there’s no state income tax in Alaska. You will, however, be working for Gov. Sarah Palin at least through Inauguration Day. The current state librarian, Kay Shelton, tells the Minnesota Independent her retirement at the end of September “has nothing to do with the governor at all.”

Shelton, who spent time at the University of Minnesota in the late 1960s, said she’s not sure what to believe of what she’s read about Palin’s spat — while mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — with the town librarian. Shelton doesn’t report directly to Palin, has found the governor “very pleasant” the one or two times she’s met her, and said issues of censorship haven’t come up at the state library in her three years there.