Ask Devorah Smith what she does for a living, and she’ll tell you she “wears many kipot.”

An educator and prayer leader at the Lester Senior Housing Community in Whippany, Smith is also director of education and lifelong learning at White Meadow Temple in Rockaway. And now, after six years as an associate in special education at what was the Jewish Education Association of MetroWest — now the Partnership for Jewish Learning and Life — she has, she said, “a new gig that I absolutely love.”

Since October, Smith has been serving in the newly created position of program coordinator at the Partnership’s Waldor Memorial Library on the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany.

“I help think up programs and suggest them to see if they will be successful,” she explained. “I advertise them to see if they can get speakers. I put the programs together. I market them.

“And I’ll be evaluating them as well,” Smith said. “Adult education is a passion of mine, and I feel fortunate that I can take my passion and expertise to help the library.”

One of the first of those programs is a “lunch and learn” at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at the Gebroe and Hammer Conference Center on the campus that will feature Judaic scholar Bernard Ducoff. He is scheduled to speak on “New Insights into the Many Translations of the Bible.”

Smith will also coordinate a new instructional program for nursery school teachers and plan a reading of Israeli short stories for a community cultural celebration in January.

“I’ve used the library incredibly since I’ve been working here, and I can really contribute the knowledge I’ve learned to help build the library and serve the community,” she said.

Librarian Eve Pasternak acknowledged that Waldor’s extensive collection of Jewish books, periodicals, documents, and videos is currently underutilized. She said she hopes Smith will lure new borrowers and researchers through the doors.

“I want to get people to come to the library, so they’ll see how wonderful it is and start using it more,” Pasternak said.

“We want a broader range of the population to come and see the broad range of the library,” agreed Smith. She pointed to the breadth and depth of materials in the library for people seeking all kinds of information.

One program still in an early planning stage that both women are touting will focus on Jewish cooking.

Food, said Pasternak, “is part of our tradition. You can trace your family’s tradition depending on what your grandma made. I had one grandmother who made salty kugel and one who made it sweet because they came from different areas. The program will focus on that, and we’ll highlight the fact that the library has a great collection of cookbooks.”

“But part of my job description does not include cooking in the kitchen here,” Smith quickly interjected. “It’s not my area of strength.”