Poplar Bluff School District is hiring: Library Media Specialist (26-27) in Popl

Title: Library Media Specialist

Reports To: Building Principal

Employment Terms: Employment terms covering compensation, benefits, and working conditions are specified by the Board of Education’s policies, procedures, and agreements. School-term contract with 3 additional days. Salary dependent on experience.

FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Overview: The Library Media Specialist will be responsible for handling general librarian duties, including managing the day‑to‑day matters of the school's library.

Qualifications

• Missouri Teaching Certification
• Master’s Degree in Library Media Specialist or completion of required LMS courses
• Missouri Certification in Library Media Services, Grades K-12
• Demonstrated proficiency in interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
• Must exhibit successful leadership, organization, public relations, and business skills
• Basic understanding of data networks and use of technology resources, including Internet searching and database usage
• Understanding copyright, fair use, and licensing of intellectual property, and assisting users with their understanding and observance of the same
• Working knowledge of Professional Learning Communities is preferred

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Makes resources available to students and teachers through a systematically developed collection within the school and through access to resources outside the school.
• Provides access to the library media center collection through the management of an accurate and efficient organization and retrieval system.
• Assists students in identifying, locating, and interpreting information housed in the library media center and helps students locate information outside the library media center.
• Provides access to the library media center throughout the school day, scheduling class visits flexibly to encourage use at the point of need: organizes and manages the library media facility in a manner that promotes access.
• Develops and implements policies and procedures that ensure that access to information is not impeded; interprets laws and district policies regarding information.
• Informs teachers, students, parents, and administrators of new materials, equipment, and services that meet their information needs.
• Manages selection and ordering of materials through a process that involves teachers, administrators, students, and parents; administers budgets for library media resources.
• Communicates library media program needs to the department head and administration.
• Prepares and administers the library budget and any supplemental funds that may be available.
• Participates in department, grade‑level, school, and district curriculum development and assessment projects.
• Offers assistance to teachers in both the selection and purchase of instructional materials and in the use of information resources.
• Collaborates with teachers to incorporate information skills into the classroom curriculum and to assist teachers in developing resource‑based units and activities.
• Provides leadership in assessing, evaluating, and implementing information and instructional technologies.
• Recommends student‑level literature to teachers to personally read to expand their awareness of the literature available.
• Teaches information skills as an integral part of the content and objectives of the school’s curriculum.
• Jointly plans, teaches, and evaluates instruction that incorporates information access, use, and communication skills with the classroom curriculum.
• Provides instruction in the use of technology to access information outside the library media center.
• Uses a wide variety of teaching methods, media, and ways of communicating information to ensure that students can access and use all types of information sources.
• Takes a leadership role in promoting and demonstrating the use of new technologies and media with teachers and other adults.
• Encourages students to read for pleasure and motivates their reading through a variety of methods.

Physical Demands/Environmental Factors

• Ability to work in a climate‑controlled building, as well as in inclement weather.
• Ability to stand, walk, and move around for long periods of time.
• Ability to see and read, with or without vision aids, a computer screen and printed matter, and to distinguish colors.
• Sufficient hearing to understand speech at normal room levels, and to hear and understand speech on the telephone.
• Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and enter data into a computer using both hands.
• Ability to communicate effectively and efficiently with sufficient volume to be heard in normal conversation, on the telephone, and addressing groups.
• Ability to exert up to 30 pounds of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects.
• Ability to lift, bend, stoop, pull, grasp, and carry a variety of objects of different shapes and sizes.
• Able to perform other duties assigned by the Superintendent or designee.

Evaluation

This position’s performance will be evaluated per the provisions of the Board's policy.

Disclaimer

The information contained in this job description is not an exhaustive list of the duties performed for this position. Additional duties are performed by the individuals currently holding this position, and additional duties may be assigned. The Board of Education and Administration and/or supervisor has the right to add or change duties at any time.

All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a criminal background check and fingerprint clearance as required by state law and district policy.