Qualifications:

1.   Certificate, license, or other legal credential required .

2.   Degree(s) required and area of major study.

3.   Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Management  Responsibilities

·         Operates and supervises the media center to which assigned

·         Maintains a comprehensive and efficient system for cataloging all media center materials and instructs teachers and students on use of the system

·         Arranges frequently changing book-related displays and exhibits likely to interest the media center's patrons

·         Removes obsolete and worn materials from the library/media center collection

·         Maintains a catalog card file and/ or automated files of materials and publishers' catalogs

·         Monitors attendance in the media center and keeps attendance records

·         Shelves incoming materials

·         Organizes and implements an audiovisual aids program for general circulation, such a program to include use of films, tapes, slides, exhibits, posters, and other audio or visual instructional materials and equipment

Establishes efficient procedures for processing of requests for materials and for the maintenance of equipment
 

General Responsibilities

·         Participates at curriculum meetings ( as required)

·         Conducts the annual inventory of media center materials and the preparation of missing materials and materials to be discarded

·         Serves as a consultant to curriculum committees ( as required)

·         Conducts annual in-service workshops and training  on library usage as necessary

·         Interprets to the staff, the administration, and the public the objectives and facilities of the audiovisual program

·         Assumes responsibility for the inventory and maintenance of library instructional materials and audiovisual equipment

·         Seeks professional development activities to address personal professional growth

Purchasing and Supplies

Evaluates, selects, and requisitions new media center materials Prepares and administers the media center budget

·         Maintains current inventory of supplies and suggests items for acquisition as needed

·         Recommends purchase of, organizes, and catalogs library instructional materials and equipment

·         Conducts a continuous evaluation of materials and equipment so that purchases may be made on an increasingly selective basis

Staff Support Services

·         Assists teachers in the selection of library books and other library instructional materials, and makes media center materials available to supplement the instructional program

·         Informs teachers and other staff members concerning new materials the media center acquires

·         Works with teachers in planning those assignments likely to lead to extended use of media center resources

·         Presents and discusses materials with a class studying a particular topic, on the invitation of the teacher

·         Serves as a consultant to principals and teachers so that they may be properly instructed as to library materials and library equipment available, their mechanical care and operation, and their educational use

Works with building principals, department heads, and technology department to stimulate better and more effective use of items from the center
 

Student Support Services

·         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

·         Assists with and gives reading guidance to students who have special reading problems or unusual intellectual interests

Helps students locate reference materials and other instructional materials

·         Reads to small groups of students (elementary school centers only)

·         Performs others duties as assigned by the Principal, the Assistant Principal, Instructional Strategist, the Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent, and other designated supervisor