Library Media Specialist
Qualifications:
- A. or B.S. degree with a major or minor in library science.
- New Mexico state teaching certificate with library science endorsement K-12.
Reports To: Principal when at the school. The Library Services Coordinator during assigned times.
Job Goal: To provide staff and students with a wide variety and range of library media and services that will encourage intellectual growth to aid staff and students in acquiring the skills needed to become effective life-time library users.
Performance Responsibilities:
- Operates and supervises the library to which assigned.
- Understands and follows oral and written directive.
- Maintains open communication and cordial public relations with media, staff, teachers, administrators, sales representatives and others.
- Provides training for the library assistants to carry out their responsibilities.
- Arranges frequently changing book fairs, audio visual showings, library displays, bulletin boards, other 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.
- Direct and assists in the production of media.
- Catalogs, maintains, and supervises the operation of audio visual hardware.
- Keeps library materials and equipment in working order.
- Eliminates obsolete and work materials from the collections.
- Makes repairs on library media: books, periodicals, audio-visual software, hardware and other media.
- Takes the annual inventory or library materials and prepares lists of missing media to be discarded.
- Maintains current inventory of supplies.
- Operates the circulation desk and keeps circulation files.
- Evaluates, selects, and requisitions new library media.
- Assists teachers in the selection of books and other instructional media, and makes library media available to supplement the instructional program.
- Supervises the clerical routines necessary for the smooth operation of the library.
- Insures that books and other media are selected according to need and suitability using recommended selection tools, maintains order file, organizes them for use.
- Insures that all media is properly shelved.
- Prepares magazines for the bindery, processes and shelves them.
- Supervises the maintenance of filing of catalog cards, vertical file material, publishers catalogs, shelf list cards, maps, pictures, periodicals.
- Maintains the library media processing center's system for cataloging all library media, and instructs teachers and students on use of the system.
- Maintains a broad and adequate collection of media, books, periodicals, newspapers, audio-visual aids, reference collection, professional collection, and southwest collection to meet school 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 and other educational and professional associates on the local, regional, state, and national level.
- Participates at curriculum meetings.
- Conducts in-service workshops to support the instructional needs of the teachers.
- Informs teachers and other staff members concerning new media the library acquires.
- Arranges for interlibrary loan of media of interest or use to teachers.
- Provides for regular scheduled on-going library media use for all grades, k-12.
- Works with teachers in planning those assignments likely to lead to extended use of library resources.
- Provides library media orientation to students and staff members.
- Provides a sequential program of instruction in library skills in cooperation with the teaching staff to make the students independent users of the library.
- Presents and discusses media with a class studying a particular topic, on the invitation of a teacher.
- Promotes appropriate conduct of students using library facilities.
- Maintains a proper student discipline.
- Assists individual students in locating reference materials and other library media
- Assists students in making proper use of library media.
- Arouses students' interest in books and other media through planned activities such as book fairs, book talks, using the Readers Guide and other indexes.
- Helps students to develop habits of independent reference work and to develop skill in the use of reference materials in relation to planned assignments.
- Counsels with and gives reading guidance to students who have special reading problems or unusual intellectual interests.
- Provides reading, viewing, and listening guidance for students.
- Trains and supervises student media assistants in the performance of their duties as directed by the library staff.
- Performs and supervises other tasks that are required for the operation and maintenance of the library.
Evaluation: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.
