Is Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill a real librarian

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Carntyne District Libraries and Rutherglen Central Library. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.

What do library services look for

Use. Visitors, active borrowers, events and attendance are the figures a service manager reports upwards, and a candidate who has moved any of them is speaking the right language.

Is the borrower increase the strongest line

Yes. Active borrowers from 4 200 to 6 100 over three years, with the mechanism named, is the argument for a branch's existence in one sentence.

What did the checker score it

98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.

Should cataloguing work stay on a management page

At a line or two. Nine thousand items catalogued and two collections reclassified says the candidate knows the technical work they are now supervising, and it sits in the reference role where it belongs.

Which design is this rendered in

Placard, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Research, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set.

Example · Libraries

A free librarian résumé example, in borrowers and events

One complete librarian résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13 · updated 2026-09-25

— a busier library is the whole argument.

The librarian example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Placard design: name, summary, three dated roles with five lines under each, education, chartership and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Placard design, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Library work is judged by whether a building is used, and library résumés rarely say whether it was. This example is written out in full so you can read a page that does, then put through the tools here so you can see what a parser stores. The candidate is invented.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill
Librarian
Glasgow, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 141 496 0388

Summary
Public librarian with ten years in branch and reference services, managing a collection of 28 000 items, a programme of 180 events a year and a staff of six across a busy district branch.

Experience

Branch Librarian · Carntyne District Libraries, Glasgow · 2020 to present

Ran a branch with 60 000 visitors a year and a collection of 28 000 items across lending, reference and local history sections.
Raised active borrowers from 4 200 to 6 100 over 3 years with a new events programme and 40 class visits each year.
Delivered 180 events a year for 3 500 attendees, including 40 class visits, 60 story sessions and 20 author evenings.
Managed 6 staff and 12 volunteers across 6 opening days a week and held every advertised opening hour through 2 years of reduced budgets.
Cut the annual materials overspend by 22% by rebuilding the selection routine for 28 000 items and retiring 3 000 titles that nobody had borrowed.

Reference Librarian · Rutherglen Central Library, Glasgow · 2015 to 2020

Answered 5 000 reference enquiries a year across local history and business, and resolved 88% of them at the desk without referral.
Catalogued 9 000 items and reclassified 2 collections over 5 years, and cut the average retrieval time for a stored request by 62%.
Ran 60 digital skills sessions for 400 residents over 4 years, and 300 of them opened an account with the council afterwards.
Built the local history index of 12 000 documents that researchers still search, and answered 900 remote enquiries a year from it.
Trained 14 staff and 20 volunteers on the library management system, and enquiry logging rose from 60% of contacts to 97%.

Library Assistant · Rutherglen Central Library, Glasgow · 2013 to 2015

Handled 700 loans and returns a day at a busy central desk and processed 200 reservations a week without a recorded error across 2 years.
Shelved and checked 28 000 items a year against the catalogue and reduced missing stock reports from 400 a year to 90.
Supported 40 class visits a year for 1 200 pupils and prepared the reading boxes that each visiting teacher requested beforehand.
Processed 3 000 inter-library requests over 2 years and delivered 96% of them to the borrower inside the promised 7 days.
Documented the reservations procedure for 3 branches, and 20 assistants across those branches still follow that procedure at every service desk.

Education
MSc Information and Library Studies · Kelvinhaugh University, Glasgow · 2013 to 2015

Skills
collection management, cataloguing, reference services, community programming, digital inclusion, library management systems, budget management, volunteer coordination, outreach, safeguarding

Languages
English · native · Gaelic · B1

Certifications
CILIP Chartership · 2019

Visitors, borrowers, events

Sixty thousand visitors a year and a collection of 28 000 items. Active borrowers from 4 200 to 6 100 in three years. A hundred and eighty events a year for 3 500 attendees, including forty class visits. Those are the numbers a service manager takes to a committee, and a branch librarian who knows them is a branch librarian who can defend a budget.

The programme is named as the mechanism for the borrower increase, which keeps the claim honest. Borrowers rise for many reasons and attributing the change to a specific programme invites the right question at interview.

Reference work is the professional base

Five thousand enquiries a year across local history and business. Nine thousand items catalogued and two collections reclassified. Sixty digital skills sessions for 400 residents. Those keep the page from reading as pure management, and the digital inclusion line is the part of public library work that has grown fastest.

Six staff and twelve volunteers across six opening days is the operational line. Volunteer coordination is a real skill and it is almost always left out.

Skills for a librarian résumé, grouped

Ambrose's skills fall into collections, services and management. Collections: collection management, cataloguing, library management systems. Services: reference services, community programming, digital inclusion, outreach. Management: budget management, volunteer coordination, safeguarding. A library service manager reads the services group as the measure of what the branch does for its area.

Academic and school librarians group around teaching and research support instead. Groups can be renamed or dropped in the free résumé builder at any time.

From library assistant to branch librarian

A library assistant's résumé proves the counter: loans, enquiries, displays and events supported. The Rutherglen roles start there. A reference librarian adds enquiries answered and research supported.

A branch librarian adds the whole service: visitors, borrowers, events, volunteers and the budget. Chartership stays in its own block with a year. The guide to quantifying achievements helps count community work.

How it reads and scores

The ATS checker scored it 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The second reading is the writing check, which asks how the document is written rather than what a parser can find in it, and it scored 95: 91 of the 96 points that applied. The same check runs on every example; the method is described here.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill's librarian résumé read into fields, each field beside the line it came from.

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill's librarian résumé in the same review on a 390 px phone.

What this example leaves off

No borrower details, no reading recommendations and no personal statement about a love of books. A service manager assumes the last one and is reading for visitors, borrowers, events and whether a budget was held.

Full cataloguing standards lists are left off as well. Cataloguing belongs in the skills row as one entry, and the count of items catalogued says more about the work than the name of the scheme it was catalogued under.

What to change for your own

Change the sector. Academic, school, health, law firm and special collections libraries all use this shape with different users and different measures. Then put in your own visitor, borrower, enquiry and event figures.

Keep chartership with its year. Keep the volunteer line. The guide on certifications covers placement, the design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the research assistant example, the teaching assistant example and the bookkeeper example sit beside this one.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Ambrose's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Placard design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Ambrose Quintanilla-Fothergill a real librarian: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Carntyne District Libraries and Rutherglen Central Library. The figures show a shape and describe nobody.
What do library services look for: Use. Visitors, active borrowers, events and attendance are the figures a service manager reports upwards, and a candidate who has moved any of them is speaking the right language.
Is the borrower increase the strongest line: Yes. Active borrowers from 4 200 to 6 100 over three years, with the mechanism named, is the argument for a branch's existence in one sentence.
What did the checker score it: 98 out of 100, re-measured on 25 September 2026, with achievement quality 2 points short and readable volume 2 points short. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% for parseability + 100 × 30% for completeness + 96 × 40% for content. The writing check beside it scored 95, which is 91 of the 96 points that applied, and the five points it withheld are the tense rule.
Should cataloguing work stay on a management page: At a line or two. Nine thousand items catalogued and two collections reclassified says the candidate knows the technical work they are now supervising, and it sits in the reference role where it belongs.
Which design is this rendered in: Placard, one of the eight layouts these examples were moved onto on 2026-09-14. This page used to argue for Research, which is outside that set, and the document was moved rather than the paragraph quietly dropped. Of the 37 layouts in the gallery, 24 export a PDF whose text layer scores what the pasted text scores, in a single column with the reading order kept and no graphics; the eight came out of that set.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 22 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.