Library Media Specialist - Chestnut Grove

Montgomery-Public-Schools; Decatur (AL); On-site; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Decatur City Schools is seeking a Library Media Specialist to lead the school library program, promote reading, and manage resources across Austin and Decatur High Schools. You will collaborate with teachers to develop information literacy, curate collections, and support instruction with new technologies while adhering to ethical and copyright standards.

This position requires a Master’s degree and Alabama Library Media Specialist certification, strong communication skills, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Master’s degree and current State of Alabama Library Media Specialist certification.
• Ability to read and interpret documents; write routine reports; speak before groups.
• Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations and understand percentages.
• Ability to apply common sense to solve problems and follow written or oral instructions.
• Knowledge of computers and computer programs relevant to library services.

Responsibilities

• Manages and promotes the library program, collection center, and activities.
• Secures, organizes, and ensures access to resources for the school community.
• Collaborates with teachers to develop information literacy and literature knowledge.
• Adheres to ethical principles including copyright and confidentiality.
• Maintains cataloging, inventory, and use of technology in the media center.
• Attends professional meetings, writes reports, and maintains records.

Skills

Instructional consulting

Collaboration

Information literacy

Cataloging

Education

Library Media Specialist certification (Alabama Class A)

Job description

SUMMARY:

• Manages library by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages and promotes the program, collection center, and activities.

• Secures, organizes, and ensures the school community has access to appropriate resources.

• Collaborates with classroom teachers to ensure students acquire skills to access, evaluate, and communicate information, and to develop knowledge of good literature.

• Confers with teachers as an instructional consultant, to seek ways to improve instruction by improving resources or applying new technologies.

• Adheres to ethical and legal principles related to school library media programs, including intellectual freedom, copyright, and confidentiality of information.

• Manages technology available in the media center. Assists with supervision of computer lab (Austin and Decatur High Schools only).

• Uses systematic procedures for selecting, acquiring, organizing, classifying, cataloging, maintaining, and inventorying a relevant collection.

• Participates as a member of the instructional team in the design, implementation, and evaluation of instruction.

• Assists students and teachers in locating, retrieving, and interpreting information in various formats. Retrieves needed information from sources to meet user requests.

• Trains employees engaged in cataloging, locating, filing, or copying selected material.

• Attends professional meetings, writes reports, and maintains records.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Master’s degree (M.A.) and current certification from the State Department of Education as a Library Media Specialist.

LANGUAGE SKILLS:

• Ability to read and interpret documents, instructions, and operating manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of students or adults.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent.

REASONING ABILITY:

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to solve problems and carry out instructions furnished in written or oral form.

• Knowledge and skill in the operation of computers and computer programs.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, & REGISTRATIONS:

• Alabama Class A Certificate with proper endorsements.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk, balance, crouch, squat, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach and lift with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit or crawl.

• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally push, pull, carry, lift, and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus and color discrimination.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
• The level increases to very loud when supervising large group activities.

SALARY:

• Salary schedules are found on the main Decatur City Schools website, available here. (Please right-click and select Open in New Tab to view our salary schedules.)

• Listed below are items that may be necessary to complete your employment process in order to compute your annual salary. It is your responsibility to provide us with this requested information in order to receive your accurate salary.

• We need verification of previous public school teaching experience. Use the following information when requesting verification of experience from your past employment at other boards of education:

  • Within the state of Alabama, experience must be verified on Supplement EXP

  • Outside the state of Alabama, we must have a letter (on school district letterhead) or public school district form showing beginning and ending dates stating your years of service and position held while employed

  • Credit is awarded for public school experience only, private, parochial, or similar experience will not be accepted

  • Experience must be full time at least 50%-100% of the academic year

  • Administrative credit will be awarded only for experience in the same position, i.e., principal for principal position as stated in the salary schedule

  • Transfer Sick Leave: If you have sick leave from another state school system or from another state of Alabama agency, you must have a Sick Leave Transfer form sent from your previous employer to our Human Resources department

• The Decatur City Board of Education awards a salary based on the highest degree earned, even if the degree is outside education. The degree must be verified on an official transcript & recognized by the Alabama State Department of Education.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee(s) within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of an employee(s) for this job.

The Decatur City School System does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, disability, sex, religion, national origin, or age in its programs, activities, or employment and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. The Title IX Coordinator for Decatur City Schools is responsible for handling inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies. The Title IX Coordinator can be reached by calling the Decatur City Board of Education at [phone].