What is a credentialed librarian?

The Teacher Librarian Services Credential authorizes the holder to perform all of the following duties:

• Instruct students in accessing, evaluating, using and integrating information and resources in the library program
• Plan and coordinate school library programs with the instructional programs of a school district through collaboration with teachers
• Select materials for school and district libraries
• Develop programs for and deliver staff development for school library services
• Coordinate or supervise library programs at the school, district or county level
• Plan and conduct a course of instruction for those pupils who assist in the operation of school libraries
• Supervise classified personnel assigned school library duties
• Develop procedures for and management of the school and district libraries

What can they help with?

(From the Media Agreement):

1. Weeding, the process of evaluating materials to see what is no longer available necessary, useful, unused, or inappropriate for a collection and then removing it from the collection
2. Inventory
3. Book Orders
4. Collection Analysis
5. Library Furniture and Layout Design
6. Standards Aligned Library Programming
7. Personalized Book Lists

How?

For more information, set up a meeting with me at: Book time with Richard S. Winters: 30 minutes meeting