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Media Specialist

    JobID: 2551

    Position Type:
    Elementary K-6 School Teaching/LMS - Library Media Specialist
    Date Posted:
    4/15/2026
    Location:
    West Elementary
    Date Available:
    26/27 School Year


    OZARK R-VI SCHOOLS
    JOB DESCRIPTION

    TITLE: MEDIA SPECIALIST/INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY COACH GRADES 5-8

    QUALIFICATIONS:
    1. Baccalaureate Degree in Education
    2. Missouri Teaching Certification
    3. Library Media Specialist Certification
    4. Credentials File
    5. Regular Attendance

    REPORTS TO: Principal

    JOB GOAL: The Media Specialist will be an extension of the schools instructional and literacy program; promoting information literacy across the curriculum and providing media and technology services to meet student and faculty needs.

    PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
    • Provide users (students and/or staff) information literacy instruction, training to become self-reliant users of information resources and technology including ethical use, and reading guidance and motivation through literacy lessons
    • Collaborate in the design and delivery of curricular instruction (information literacy skills)
    • Access to resources which support classroom instruction
    • Possess knowledge of the availability of appropriate library materials
    • Understand the interlibrary loan system to access needed materials not in the building collection
    • Provide assistance with location and access of sources and information within sources, including Internet
    • Circulate library resources, through check in, check out, shelving, holds, etc.
    • Develop and maintain the library program including: selecting, ordering, processing, cataloging, inventorying, weeding or removing, and repairing
    • Maintain patron records including maintaining up-to-date patron database, notifying students and staff of overdue materials, collecting fees for damages and lost books
    • Maintain professional resources for teachers and involving them in purchasing decisions
    • Develop and administer a budget
    • Assess and guide the development of the district library services program through completion of state report as well as observations of the teacher librarian
    • Foster an atmosphere which encourages student and faculty usage
    • Develop, administer, and manage programs and facilities for the use of information resources and technologies
    • Promote the appropriate use of online resources
    • Provide leadership in collaborative planning for school technology, resources, and needs
    • Collaborate with classroom teachers in the preparation, presentation, and evaluation of units or assignments that utilize information technology resources
    • Assist staff and students with strategies for intellectual access to information and ideas for learning (find, judge, and use information) they can use within and beyond school settings
    • Provide information and instruction in areas of information literacy, the Research Cycle, Acceptable Use Policy, ethics, intellectual property and copyright, and use of instructional educational technologies
    • Promote the integrated use of technology as a learning tool

    PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Be able to move around the media center and lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height
    TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Basic annual contract plus 20 days; compensation as per adopted salary schedule
    TYPE OF POSITION: Exempt
    EVALUATION: Evaluated annually by Principal
    APPROVED BY SCHOOL BOARD: February 21, 2019

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