Library Media Specialist

Job Description - Library Media Specialist

Library Media Specialist  )

The Library Media Specialist offers a library program to develop a culture of literacy and inquiry to promote student success and lifelong learning. The Library Media Specialist empowers students and staff to become effective users of ideas and information; to help them acquire literacy, inquiry, and digital learning skills.

• Information Literacy: Evaluate, select and order new instructional materials; provide instruction in research skills and inquiry methods; help learners become creative problem solvers and independent users and producers of ideas and information; provide formal and informal instruction to students and staff; model effective strategies for developing multiple literacies.
• Inquiry: Collaborate with teachers to plan and deliver instruction that supports the curriculum; provide instruction based on the inquiry approach to learning; promote student inquiry to pursue, create, and share knowledge; offer professional development opportunities that promote best practices in inquiry‑based teaching and learning.
• Reading: Encourage the learning community to read a variety of literature for information and pleasure; elevate literacy instruction through participation in national, state, and local reading initiatives; develop a collection reflective of diversity, student choice, and reading for information.
• Digital Learning: Protect the intellectual freedom of students and staff following defined FBISD policy and procedures; use and promote the use of digital resources and technologies across content areas for discovery, collaboration, critical analysis, creation, and presentation of learning; offer creative, innovative, and ethical use of current and emerging technologies; remain current in professional practices and developments, information technologies, and educational research applicable to school library programs.
• Environment: Report to and plan with the principal to establish library goals and support campus goals; create and maintain a positive and welcoming climate in the library; develop procedures for circulation of library materials and use of the library facility; maintain current collection through selection, inventory, and weeding of materials; utilize best practices to plan and develop the school library program;
  
  provide a cohesive, comprehensive campus Library program servicing the needs of campus and district users; maintain lines of communication with the Assistant Director; manage and coordinate job duties and expectations for library paraprofessional staff, student workers, and volunteers; develop and manage the library budget following defined district policy and procedures.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: None.

• Bachelor's degree.
• Master's degree preferred; must have completed at least 12 hours of graduate study in a Library degree program leading to a Master's Degree in Library and/or Information Science or related field; must be able to complete the School Librarian degree and certification within 2 years.
• Valid Teaching Certification issued by Texas Education Agency appropriate to subject and grade level of assignment.
• Minimum of 2 years classroom teaching experience.

Work is performed in classrooms, offices, workstations and meeting rooms. The position requires occasional walking, standing, sitting, bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and lifting/carrying work related items weighing less than 40 pounds. The employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

Attendance at conferences and professional development is required. Work involves everyday risks and discomforts which require normal safety precautions when operating equipment or performing job duties. May work prolonged or irregular hours and must be able to maintain emotional control under stress. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.