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Mar 14, 2024 · The Advisory Committee meets regularly (four to five times a year) and works closely with administrators, faculty, staff, and students to conceptualize library services for the school community. All told, having a “team of voices” (Cravey, 2013) involved goes a long way in winning over the hearts and minds of the community you serve.
presented by school librarians—have the potential to change not only children’s relationship to reading but also their lives. In their thoughtful work of collection devel-opment, school librarians select age-appropriate, diverse texts as they navigate district-based policies and school board scrutiny. 3.Librarians as providers of access.
There are various steps you can take to try and run concise, effective, and relevant meetings. "Before you do anything else, figure out what you want to accomplish in a meeting" (Running Meetings 4). Next, identify what type of meeting you need to have. It may be a problem-solving, decision making, or informational meeting (Running Meetings 11 ...
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In 2014, the Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators Revision Task Force was charged “to update and revise the Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians and Coordinators document in accordance with the recommendations published in the report of the Standards for Proficiencies for Instruction Librarians a...
The shift in focus in 2015 from the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education to the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (Framework) model prompted the Task Force to closely examine not only the proficiencies themselves but their structure and purpose. In the spirit of the Framework, the task force inte...
The changing higher education environment in which discrete skill sets rapidly evolve, necessitates a broad set of concepts to describe the dynamic roles undertaken by teaching librarians. In keeping with the Framework, which provides “a cluster of interconnected core concepts…rather than any prescriptive enumeration of skills” the new Roles and St...
The members of the Task Force began by collecting U.S. job postings for academic instruction or information literacy librarians from a six-month period. Postings were analyzed for emerging trends as well as examined quantitatively through word frequency using the Voyant text analysis program. The Task Force also consulted recent literature related ...
The purpose of the roles is to conceptualize and describe the broad nature and variety of the work that teaching librarians undertake as well as the related characteristics which enable librarians to thrive within those roles. These seven roles, which can and do overlap, are intended to help librarians situate our individual work experiences within...
This document is intended to help both clarify roles which may be assumed by a proficient teaching librarian and inspire new roles. 1. For hiring institutions, the roles can aid in thinking more specifically about what the institution envisions for teaching librarians in accordance with their mission, vision, and strategic objectives. While intervi...
ADVOCATE
Advocacy by the teaching librarian may involve persuasion, activism, encouragement, and support in many forms. A teaching librarian will need to be able to contextually situate information literacy and communicate its value across a range of audiences in the college/university community. Advocacy is required when working with library leaders and the college or university administration to promote and advance information literacy, student learning, and the information literacy program within t...
COORDINATOR
A coordinator leads, develops, and maintains a library and/or institution’s information literacy program. This role requires highly effective organizational and communication skills in managing multiple simultaneous projects, events, resources, assessment, statistical reporting, and coordinating with administrators as well as academic departments. The coordinator must have diplomatic people skills and confidently navigate the politics of instruction, understanding the climate, culture, and ex...
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
The teaching librarian as instructional designer creates educational experiences through designing instructional materials, and developing learning outcomes, assessment tools and learning objects across diverse learning environments. Learning environments can include face-to-face, hybrid, and online classrooms. The instructional designer makes pedagogical choices appropriate to the educational environment, taking into consideration audience, culture, and accessibility dimensions. The instruct...
ACRL (2012). “Characteristics of Programs of Information Literacy that Illustrate Best Practices: A Guideline.” Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/characteristics. ACRL Board of Directors. (2016, January 15). Update from the ACRL Board of Directors on the Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Retrieved from http://w...
Nov 4, 2019 · The school principal, vice principal, and teacher-librarian were all new to their roles and our school had a strong, experienced staff who were ready to try new things. At the same time, the district had strong teacher leaders who were laying the foundation for a vision which reinvented the school library as a learning commons.
The role of a school librarian is very complex and multifaceted. Some responsibilities directly related to the library include but are not limited to: Aligning the library collections with the needs of the school and the student population; Ensuring the technology is sufficient to serve the school; Organizing the physical space so that it can ...
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About OSLA OSLA provides a common voice for school library professionals needs and interests through advocacy, leadership and continuing education. Over 1,300 elementary and secondary school teacher-librarians, library technicians and school board consultants are represented in OSLA. To keep up to date with current news, please visit OSLA Twitter. OSLA Mission Statement The mission of ...
