2025-26 Library Media Specialist - Elementary

Mid-Del School District•Forest Park, OK

67d

About The Position

A school library media specialist, is the person in charge of maintaining library resources for a school. This includes both fiction and non-fiction books, as well as magazines, educational software, DVDs, and other related materials. Media specialists also advise users on what types of equipment to use depending on the lesson, presentation, or event, as well as how to use that equipment.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily
Master's Degree
Appropriate Oklahoma Teaching Certification

Nice To Haves

A minimum of three (3) years of successful teaching preferred.

Responsibilities

Operates and supervises the media center to which assigned.
Evaluates, selects and requisitions new media center materials.
Assists teachers in the selection of books and other instructional materials, and makes media center materials available to supplement the instructional program.
Maintains a comprehensive and efficient automated system for cataloging all media center materials, and instructs teachers and students on use of the system.
Presents and discusses materials with a class studying a particular topic, on the invitation of the teacher.
Counsels with and gives reading guidance to students who have special reading problems or unusual intellectual interests.
Arranges frequently-changing book-related displays and exhibits likely to interest the media center's patrons.
Supervises media center aides in the performance of their duties.
Weeds obsolete and worn materials from the collections.
Additional duties that may be assigned by immediate supervisor or above.