Educational Assistant Library​/Media

Starting Date: Aug 3, 2026

Must have or be able to attain a level III educational assistant license.

Requires 48 credit hours at a University or College, or be able to pass the Para Pro Exam.

Title:

Elementary School Educational Assistant Library

Qualifications:

1. High School Diploma

• Typing and filing skills

Reports To:

The principal

Job Goal:
To provide staff and students with a wide variety and range of library media that will encourage intellectual growth, and to aid staff and students in acquiring the skills needed to become effective, life‑time library users.

• Operates and supervises the library assigned.
• Understands and follows oral and written directives.
• Maintains open communication and cordial public relations with media, staff, teachers, administrators, sales representatives, parents, students and others.
• Arranges frequently changing book fairs, storytime, audiovisual showings, library displays, bulletin boards, library promotional activities and exhibits likely to interest library users.
• Oversees the general neatness and attractiveness of the library and its displays.
• Prepares and administers the library budget.
• Directs and assists in the production of media.
• Catalogs, maintains, and operates audiovisual hardware.
• Keeps library media and equipment in working order.
• Weeds, obsolete and worn media from the collections.
• Makes repairs on library media, books, periodicals, and audiovisual hardware.
• Takes the annual inventory of library media and prepares lists of missing library media to be discarded.
• Maintains current inventory of supplies.
• Operates the circulation desk and keeps circulation files.
• Monitors attendance in the library and keeps attendance records.
• Writes notices to homeroom teachers concerning overdue books, collects fines for such books, and maintains an accurate record of them.
• Evaluates, selects, and requisitions new library media.
• Assists teachers in the selection of books and other library media, and makes library media available to supplement the instructional program.
• Performs clerical routines necessary for the smooth operation of the library.
• Selects, types and processes orders, reports, bibliographies, forms, library schedules, letters to publishers, catalog cards, and the like.
• Ensures that books and other media are selected according to need and suitability using recommended selection tools, maintains the order file, receives processed media from the Library Media Processing Center and organizes them for use.
• Ensures that all media is properly shelved.
• Shelves incoming media and files cards received from the library media processing center.
• Prepares current magazines for shelving.
• Maintains files of catalog cards, vertical file materials, publishers' catalogs, shelf list cards, maps, picture, and periodicals.
• Maintains the Library Media Processing Center’s system for cataloging all library materials, and instructs teachers and students on use of the system.
• Reports to the library media processing center as directed by the Director of Instructional Services and/or the Library Services Coordinator to help process library media.
• Maintains a broad and adequate collection of materials, books, periodicals, newspapers, audio–visual aids, reference collection, professional collection, and southwest collection to meet the school's needs.
• Cooperates with the administration, faculty, and staff in the establishment of the library as an integral part of the total education program.
• Keeps informed and up-to-date on the trends and practices of library media.
• Participates in in-service workshops for library staff.
• Participates in library associations on the local and state levels.
• Informs teachers and other staff members concerning the new media the library…