• What do Library Media Specialists do?

    •  Teach skills that enable students to become independent and effective users of information and ideas
    •  Manage a facility used by students, staff and parents
    •  Provide a collection that is current, weeded and responsive to curricular and recreational needs of students
    •  Collaborate with teachers in all phases of the educational process
    • Lead the way in promoting the principles of intellectual freedom
    •  Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies
    •  Provide intellectual and physical access to material in all formats
    •  Work with all members of the educational community to design learning strategies
      to meet the needs of individual students
    •  Conduct action research projects to improve learning and instruction
    •  Manage a website
    •  Serve on curriculum and school-based committees
    •  Teach students and teachers how to find information from a variety of sources
    •  Teach learners of all ages how to evaluate information
    •  Train students to use computers
    •  Provide instruction in all phases of the research process
    •  Create online pathfinders for student projects
    •  Investigate, initiate and locate professional development opportunities
    •  Attend and participate in district, state and national meetings and conferences
    •  Promote literacy and lifelong learning