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FOCUS
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TASKS
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LEARNING AND TEACHING
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Climate Conducive to Learning
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- Creates welcoming and respectful climate in library.
- Provides for diverse student needs in resources and instruction.
- Provides opportunities for students to use the library for class-related research, individual investigation, independent reading, and personal inquiry.
- Sponsors special programs in the library, such as health fairs, career days, and reading motivation programs (e.g., book fairs, book clubs, author visits, book reviewing).
- Continually rotates, replaces, and updates displays of books and student work to reflect current curricular themes.
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Collaborative Planning
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- Collaborates with teachers to plan and implement instructional units that integrate use of the library with classroom curriculum.
- Documents collaboration with teachers.
- Participates in school, department, and grade-level curriculum development.
- Provides teachers with print and non-print resources related to specific units upon request and proactively reaches out to teachers to support their instruction.
- Facilitates collaboration among classroom teachers.
- Collaborates with other educators (coaches, technology specialists) as appropriate.
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Integrated, Collaborative Teaching
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- Shares responsibility with teachers for integrating inquiry, information literacy and technology skills into school curriculum.
- Helps structure student assignments for deeper thinking and research.
- Teaches collaboratively with classroom teachers whenever possible.
- Develops and implements reading initiatives to motivate and engage each student in independent reading.
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Information Fluency Curriculum
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- Leads the school in developing a plan for integration of information fluency skills throughout the grades and subject areas.
- Documents the teaching of information fluency skills to ensure that all students have equitable opportunities to develop and practice information fluency.
- Provides professional development to teachers to investigate how technology and information skills can support curriculum and instruction.
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INFORMATION ACCESS AND DELIVERY
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Collection Aligned to Curriculum and Student Needs
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- Establishes, maintains and updates an automated catalog.
- Assesses student and teacher needs and interests.
- Maintains running list or suggestion box for teachers and students to request materials.
- Assesses connections between classroom collections and the library.
- Conducts ongoing collection analysis and development, regularly discarding and adding materials in light of the assessed needs.
- Continuously reviews professional publications to keep up-to-date on current print and non-print resources.
- Subscribes to online databases and other electronic resources.
- Develops and maintains relationships with book jobbers and vendors.
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Technology
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- Ensures that the library has sufficient working computers connected to the Internet and appropriate software.
- Stays up-to-date on the latest technologies and their use for teaching and learning.
- Trains teachers and shares best practices in integrating technology into instruction.
- Integrates the library into the school’s technology plan.
- Communicates to students and faculty the ethical and safe use of technology.
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Physical Environment / Facilities
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- Organizes the library in logical Dewey Decimal System order for ease of access to resources.
- Arranges the library for variety of uses by large groups, small groups, and individuals.
- Enhances usage of the library through clear signage and designation of areas for specific activities (storytelling, research, technology use, etc.).
- Maintains an orderly environment.
- Facilitates redesign of the library space when the opportunity arises.
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Flexible, Open, Extended, and Equitable Access
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- Develops a scheduling policy that facilitates open and flexible access as well as strong instructional use.
- Schedules library use and posts current library schedule weekly.
- Provides open access time every day for students to check out resources.
- Ensures that all students have public library cards so they can access resources of public library.
- Advocates for extended library hours (before and after school, Saturday, summer).
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Use of Resources and Technology
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- Maintains fair and consistent circulation and use policies.
- Promotes use of library to teachers, students, and parents to ensure that the library is a vital and active center of learning for the whole school.
- Documents use of library and library computers by classes and individuals.
- Pursues support from technology personnel to maintain working and up-to-date computers and Internet access.
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PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION
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Staffing
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- Recruits, trains, and manages library staff and volunteers.
- Sets own job-performance goals and documents accomplishments.
- Collaborates with co-librarians by establishing clear job-sharing responsibilities.
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Funding and Budget Management
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- Establishes budget priorities based on assessment of needs, status of library collection, library plan for improvement, and industry trends.
- Ensures that library budget is allocated and spent each year according to DOE procedures and policies.
- Maintains budget and expenditure records.
- Pursues grant opportunities for the library, including integration of the library into content-specific and school-wide grants, as appropriate.
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Library Management
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- Develops library vision, mission, and goals with input from administrators, teachers, students, parents and all other stakeholders.
- Uses the Library Learning Walk to assess library assets and needs and develop strategic plan for improvement.
- Develops overall library policies and procedures.
- Documents and maintains records on all aspects of the library program.
- Serves on the school leadership team and integrates the library program throughout the school’s Comprehensive Education Plan.
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Professional Development
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- Attends Office of Library Services programs, meetings and conferences.
- Attends regional library meetings and workshops.
- Attends local, state or national professional development workshops.
- Participates in electronic discussion lists, such as NYCSLIST and LM_Net.
- Actively networks with other school and public librarians.
- Coordinates professional development opportunities for teachers on technology, information fluency and inquiry in order to build a professional learning community.
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Library Advocacy and Support
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- Effectively communicates the vision for the school library to the faculty, staff, parents and community.
- Communicates regularly with staff, students, and parents about library resources and programs in various forms (e.g., staff meetings, newsletters, student newspaper, displays, Web page).
- Develops an ongoing advocacy program for library.
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