Description:
The Library Media Specialist position is responsible for ensuring that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information technology. The LMS provides guidance and supports the use of all of the district’s technology resources both in and out of the classroom. The LMS will empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, effective users of technology, ethical users of information, and responsible digital citizens. The LMS will instill a love of learning in all students and ensure equitable access to information resources. The LMS will collaborate with classroom teachers to design and implement units of instruction and assess student learning.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university; Master’s Degree preferred.
- Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary license in:
- Knowledge of current education legislation/regulations
- Ability to work effectively with teachers, support staff, and parents and advocate for children to effectively problem solve
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills and ability to work with all stakeholders
- Belief in the commitment to increasing personal growth, both academic and social-emotional, to obtain the highest level of achievement for every student.
- Knowledge of DESE Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
TheLibrary Media Specialist will;
- Collaborate with classroom teachers as a partner in the instructional process;
- Collaborate to design, teach, and assess learning experiences that incorporate inquiry learning, information literacies in their formats, critical thinking, and self-assessment.* Provide and plan professional development;
- Promote a love of reading and lifelong learning;
- Promote instructional technology to improve learning;
- Teach students to build on prior knowledge to construct new knowledge;
- Teach search techniques, including online search engine, database, and catalog searching;
- Consult with Instructional Technology/Digital Learning Staff as needed to teach Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards in lessons;
- Serve on decision-making teams, school improvement, and accreditation activities, present at meetings;
- Support teachers in the integration of technology into the teaching and learning process by providing professional learning, modeling, and coaching;
- Benchmark the Library Media Center (LMC) program to school, state, and national standards;
- Assist in the research, development, and evaluation of new methods and digital tools that advance the Library and Technology programs;
- Guide, coach, and facilitate teachers and administrators in acquiring digital literacy skills;
- Stay current in professional practices, and educational research; maintains active professional memberships;
- Advocate for the LMC through an effective public relations program.
- Collect and analyze data to improve instruction; demonstrates correlations between the LMC and student achievement;
- Administer the LMC budget to support program goals;
- Foster a creative, flexible environment so that the Library Media Center is an essential part of the learning community;
- Evaluate, promote, and use existing and emerging technologies to support teaching and learning;
- Develop and maintain print, digital and technological resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the instructional strategies of the school community.
- Create and maintains classification systems, cataloging practices, methods of subject access to library holdings, and electronic storage of bibliographic/media metadata;
- Cooperate and network with other libraries/agencies;
- Evaluate collection develops of collection policies and procedures and analyzes resources in the context of the school culture with attention to the developmental needs of students;
- Establish procedures for the selection, acquisition, circulation, and sharing of resources in all formats;
- Promote the ethical use of information: copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property;
- Consider the social and psychological needs and attitudes of adolescents which affect their needs for library materials and services.