Jquery conflict with smooth slider

I have linked into the Jquery Library to do some custom functionality throughout my site. I have decided to add the smooth slider plug in to the home page. There seems to be a conflict between the two and I can not figure out why. When I remove my link to Jquery the smooth slider works, however all my custom functionality breaks. How do I get the slider to work with what I already have? Here is how I wrote my header.php

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and this is the call to smooth slider on my front-page.php

<div id="slider"><?php if ( function_exists( 'get_smooth_slider' ) ) {
     get_smooth_slider(); } ?>	</div>