District Librarian

District Librarian

Maysville R-1 is a 4 day/week school district.

Role and Responsibilities

Leader

As a leader, the school librarian creates a collaborative learning environment for students that nurtures creative problem solving. The school librarian is an exceptional communicator and an enthusiastic team member. The librarian instills a love of learning while fostering an environment that is creative, innovative, and open to new ideas. They anticipate future obstacles and continually evolve to meet challenges. The school librarian demonstrates his or her role as a visible, active leader in the school/library community by:

• Participate as an active member of decision making teams in the school
• Maintaining a cooperative relationship with administration, staff, students, parents, community and where applicable, local public libraries
• Participating in school improvement activities
• Sharing expertise by presenting at faculty meetings, in-service sessions, parent meetings, and school board meetings
• Creating an environment that is conducive to collaboration with teaching staff, active and participatory learning, and resource-based instructional practices
• Sharing with the school community and adhering to collaboratively developed and up-to-date district policies concerning issues such as materials selection, circulation, reconsideration of materials, copyright, privacy and acceptable use
• Embracing the use of instructional technology to engage students and improve learning while providing 24/7 access to digital information resources for the entire learning community
• Remaining current in professional practices and developments, information technologies, and educational research as it pertains to library programs.
• Identifying and requesting to attend professional workshop activities intended to increase the school librarian's instructional effectiveness
• Advocating for school library programs and the school library profession
• Building and maintaining expertise in a wide range of resources and technologies

Teacher

As a teacher, the school librarian empowers students to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information. The library program is essential to learning and teaching and must be fully integrated into the curriculum to promote students' achievement of learning goals and objectives. The school librarian supports students' success by guiding them in:

• Reading for understanding, pleasure, and the exploration of diverse viewpoints and genres
• Accessing, evaluating, and communicating information regardless of format.
• Building on prior knowledge and constructing new knowledge
• Utilizing information in a variety of formats
• Collaborating with peers to enhance learning

The school librarian instructs students by:

• Using a variety of techniques and methodologies appropriate to student abilities while promoting high levels of achievement
• Incorporating the use of technology to make subject matter learning relevant and enhance student learning outcomes
• Demonstrating knowledge of and ability to use research-based principles of effective instruction
• Engaging in diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments of student learning

Instructional Partner

As an instructional partner the school librarian works with teachers and other educators to build and strengthen connections between student information and research needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and information resources. The school librarian demonstrates his or her role as an essential and equal partner in the instructional process by:

• Participating in the curriculum development process at both the school and district level to ensure that the district meets the full range of literacy skill necessary to meet content standards and develop lifelong learners
• Collaborating with teachers to design and teach engaging lessons and assessments that incorporate multiple literacies and foster critical thinking
• Assisting staff in the selection, evaluation, and use of resources, including Internet-based resources
• Participating in the implementation of collaboratively planned lessons by providing group and individual instruction, assessing student progress and evaluating activities to incorporate classroom objectives and information/digital literacy skills
• Partnering with the school community to create meaningful experiences and opportunities to promote a love of reading and lifelong learning

Information Specialist

As the information specialist, the school librarian provides leadership and expertise in the selection, acquisition, evaluation, and organization of resources and technologies in all formats, as well as expertise in the ethical use of information. The school librarian ensures equitable access and responsible use of information by:

• Developing and maintaining a collection of resources appropriate to the curriculum, the learners, and the teaching styles and instructional strategies of the school community
• Exemplifying competence in classifying, cataloging, processing, storage, and circulation of materials
• Cooperating and networking with other libraries, librarians, and agencies to provide access to resources beyond the school library
• Providing access to information and ideas by assisting both students and teachers in the location of information resources
• Understanding copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property and assisting students, staff, and administration with their understanding and observance of same
• Organizing the collection for to ensure its maximum and effective use

Experience: Job related experience is desired

Education: Missouri Teaching Degree

Required Testing Certification and Licenses

None Missouri Teacher's License

Continuing Educ. / Training Clearances

Keeping Current with DESE, Local, State Criminal Justice Fingerprint/Background Federal Guidelines Keeping Current with Accounting Software

FLSA Status Approval Date Salary Grade

Fair Labor Standard Act Salary Schedule Placement Non Exempt