Library Media Specialist

LIBRARIAN

TITLE: Librarian

QUALIFICATIONS: Certificate, license, or other legal credential required
Degree(s) required and area of major study.
Kind and amount of prior job experience required.
Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO: Principal and Assistant Principal

JOB GOALS: To provide all students with an enriched library environment containing a wide variety of materials that will invite intellectual growth, and to aid all students in acquiring the skills needed to take full advantage of media center resources.

• Works with the superintendent and those whom he/she supervises to articulate and promote the school’s vision of teaching, learning and reading.
• Monitors and evaluates progress toward accomplishment of system goals and objectives.
• Uses student data to identify program needs.
• Develops goals and objectives programs and operations.
• Ensures that library plans are consistent with school plans.
• Seeks out, encourages, and supports innovative ideas to enhance learning.
• Organizes daily, monthly and yearly schedules to facilitate reading and learning in the school.
• Communicates high expectations of students, staff and parents.
• Creates and supports innovative ideas that in turn support reading and learning.
• Interprets to the staff, administration and the public the objectives and facilities of the audiovisual program.
• Organizes and implements an audiovisual aids program for general circulation, such a program to include use of films, filmstrips, recordings, transcriptions, tapes, slides, exhibits, posters, and other audio visual instructional materials and equipment.
• Follows established procedures in the Mississippi Public Schools Accountability Standards and other applicable federal and state regulations.

• Operates and supervises the media center to which assigned.
• Evaluates, selects, and requisitions new media center materials.
• Assists teachers in the selection of books and other instructional materials, and makes media center materials available to supplement the instructional program.
• Maintains a comprehensive and efficient system for cataloging all media center materials and instructs teachers and students on use of the system.
• Works with teachers in planning those assignments likely to lead to extended use of media center resources.
• Informs teachers and other staff members concerning new materials the media center acquires.
• Arranges for interlibrary loan of materials or interest or use to teachers.
• Serves as a consultant to principals and teachers so that they may be properly instructed as to materials and equipment available, their mechanical care and operation, and their educational use, as well as to help them develop and use audiovisual materials of their own creation.
• Serves as a consultant to all curriculum committees.
• Works with building principals and department heads to stimulate better and more effective use of items from the center.
• Arranges frequently changing book-related displays and exhibits likely to interest the media center’s patrons.
• Conducts at least one annual in-service workshop on the creation and design of the audiovisual materials, and conducts such other in-service programs as may from time to time appear to the curriculum director as necessary or valuable.
• Exposes students to computer literacy and other types of educational software programs (i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, etc).

• Promotes appropriate conduct of students using media center facilities.
• Helps students to develop habits of independent reference work and to develop skill in the use of reference materials in relation to planned assignments.
• Presents and discusses materials with a class studying a particular topic, on the invitation of the teacher.
• Counsels with and gives reading guidance to students who have special reading problems or unusual intellectual interests.
• Monitors attendance in the media center and keeps attendance records.
• Helps students locate reference materials and other instructional materials.
• Reads to small groups of students. (elementary school…