School Library Media Coordinator (ACHS)

SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA COORDINATOR

Alexander Central High School

11 month position

JOB DESCRIPTION:
The School Library Media Coordinator provides the leadership and instructional resources for implementation of a school library media program that serves as an integral part of a student-centered educational process. Under NCDPI, school library media coordinators are identified as support staff and are evaluated using the SLMC specific tool and rubric under the general supervision of the school principal.

CERTIFICATION: Master’s degree in Library Science or Instructional Technology and NC licensure in K-12 School Library Media Coordinator certification.

REPORTS TO: School Principal and Executive Director of Curriculum and Instruction

PURPOSE: To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas, information, and technology. The School Library Media Coordinator empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information. (Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, ALA, 2009)

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides leadership for the school library media program.
• Establishes processes and procedures for selection, acquisition, circulation, and resource sharing of assets in print, online, and tech tools.
• Plans and facilitates student instructional lessons aligned to the NC Digital Learning Standards and school library skills instruction.
• Participates in professional learning networks at the school, district, state, and/or national level.
• Coordinates professional development for staff to support innovation, digital literacy, device software, resources, and integration strategies.
• Creates a welcoming, flexible, and accessible physical space to include flexible scheduling and equitable physical access.
• Champions reading for information, pleasure and lifelong learning while recommending appropriate resources to meet students’ needs and interests.
• Ensures that media program goals and objectives are aligned with school and district strategic priorities.
• Demonstrates knowledge of curriculum goals across grades and content areas by staying abreast of current research about student learning and emerging resources.
• Collaborates with teachers and specialists to select resources and design/model instruction to seamlessly integrate content, information, and digital literacy across the curriculum that fosters critical thinking and engages in inquiry.
• Models, promotes, and supports other educators in the effective use of information resources, best practices in research, multiple literacies, digital safety, and the ethical use of information and technology resources.
• Serves as a site-based technology coordinator under the guidance of the district IT department who facilitates the deployment, training, maintenance, and collection of school district devices and software.
• Coordinates with the school principal to manage and maintain the school's social media sites, NC Ed Cloud, and LMS program.
• Facilitates extracurricular activities aligned with media center priorities such as Battle of the Books, book fairs, student club, and community engagement.
• Performs other related tasks as assigned by the principal and other district office administrators as designated by the superintendent.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:

• Must be adaptable for performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
• Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
• Considerable knowledge of library media terminology and appropriate uses of media and technology to enhance instruction and achievement.
• Considerable knowledge of the current literature, trends, methods and developments in the area of media and instructions technology.
• Considerable knowledge of the principles of organization and administration.
• General knowledge of the NC Standards Course of Study and School Board policies, procedures, and standards regarding education.
• Ability to identify and evaluate new and emerging technologies.
• Ability to use common audio-visual materials.
• Ability to use common office machines and specific computer-driven work processing, spreadsheet, Webpage construction, research, and file maintenance.
• Ability to effectively express ideas orally and in writing.
• Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, or directions from supervisors.
• Require the ability to read and to prepare a variety of correspondence, reports, forms, newsletters, procedures,etc.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitated by work assignments.
• Require the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristic of data, people, or things.
• Must be able to exert up to 50 points of force occasionally; and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, care, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

The knowledge and abilities described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.