Library Media Specialist

Title:

Library Media Specialist

Reports To: Building Principal

Employment

Terms:

Employment terms covering compensation, benefits, and working conditions are specified by the Board of Education’s policies, procedures, and agreements. School-term contract with 3 additional days. Salary dependent on experience.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Overview: The Library Media Specialist will be responsible for handling general librarian duties, including managing the day‑to‑day matters of the school's library.

• Missouri Teaching Certification
• Master’s Degree in Library Media Specialist or completion of required LMS courses
• Missouri Certification in Library Media Services, Grades K-12
• Demonstrated proficiency in interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Must exhibit successful leadership, organization, public relations, and business skills
• Basic understanding of data networks and use of technology resources, including Internet searching and database usage
• Understanding copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property, and assisting users with their understanding and observance of the same
• Working knowledge of Professional Learning Communities is preferred

• Makes resources available to students and teachers through a systematically developed collection within the school and through access to resources outside the school.
• Provides access to the library media center collection through the management of an accurate and efficient organization and retrieval system.
• Assists students in identifying, locating, and interpreting information housed in the library media center and helps students locate information outside the library media center.
• Provides access to the library media center throughout the school day, scheduling class visits flexibly to encourage use at the point of need: organizes and manages the library media facility in a manner that promotes access.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures that ensure that access to information is not impeded; interprets laws and district policies regarding information.
• Informs teachers, students, parents, and administrators of new materials, equipment, and services that meet their information needs.
• Manages selection and ordering of materials through a process that involves teachers, administrators, students, and parents; administers budgets for library media resources.
• Communicates library media program needs to the department head and administration.
• Prepares and administers the library budget and any supplemental funds that may be available.
• Participates in department, grade‑level, school, and district curriculum development and assessment projects.
• Offers assistance to teachers in both the selection and purchase of instructional materials and in the use of information resources.
• Collaborates with teachers to incorporate information skills into the classroom curriculum and to assist teachers in developing resource‑based units and activities.
• Provides leadership in assessing, evaluating, and implementing information and instructional technologies.
• Recommends student‑level literature to teachers to personally read to expand their awareness of the literature available.
• Teaches information skills as an integral part of the content and objectives of the school’s curriculum.
• Jointly plans, teaches, and evaluates instruction that incorporates information access, use, and communication skills with the classroom curriculum.
• Provides instruction in the use of technology to access information outside the library media center.
• Uses a wide variety of teaching methods, media, and ways of communicating information to ensure that students can access and use all types of information sources.
• Takes a leadership role in promoting and demonstrating the use of new technologies and media with teachers and other adults.
• Encourages students to read for pleasure and motivates their reading through a variety of methods.

• Ability to work in a climate‑controlled building, as well as in inclement weather.
• Ability to stand, walk, and move around for long periods of time.
• Ability to see and read, with or…