Job+Descriptions

Library Media Specialist Responsibilities (General)
Performs duties as assigned by administration
 * 1) Supervise and evaluate staff, student aides and volunteers
 * 2) Teach lessons to students and teachers/schedule classes
 * 3) Set long term goals for library
 * 4) Assist with school wide goals like NCA and Prop. 301
 * 5) Order books, capital items, and supplies
 * 6) Weed/discard materials
 * 7) Check student passes with other library staff
 * 8) Supervise computer labs
 * 9) Teach book repair
 * 10) Inventory with other library staff
 * 11) Reading and dusting of shelves
 * 12) Budget-capital, supplies, and bookstore
 * 13) Catalog items without records available
 * 14) Order supplies
 * 15) Set up displays with other library staff
 * 16) Organize activities to promote circulation and the library with other library staff
 * 17) Update Web page
 * 18) Discipline students
 * 19) Attend department chair meetings
 * 20) Collect data to improve library use
 * 21) Prepare year-end report
 * 22) Cover when staff are absent
 * 23) Lock up and shut down if last to leave

Library Assistant’s Responsibilities (General)

 * 1) Opening up library and all the entails (turning on lights, front computers, and copy machine, picking up newspapers from back, unlocking doors, checking bathrooms and voice messages)
 * 2) Circulation (adding and deleting patrons, collecting fines, checking in and out materials, holding materials, student withdrawals)
 * 3) Shelving materials (magazines, books, videos) with the help of others
 * 4) Processing magazines and displaying them
 * 5) Notifying librarian of any problems receiving magazines
 * 6) Reading and dusting shelves with other staff
 * 7) Scheduling classes and leaving notes in teachers’ boxes the night before they are scheduled
 * 8) Notifying students and teachers if holds are ready
 * 9) Checking student passes
 * 10) Monitoring student behavior and providing discipline when needed
 * 11) Assisting students, teachers, and patrons with locating materials
 * 12) Asking for help from colleagues when needed
 * 13) Helps supervise student aides
 * 14) Inventory/weeds with other staff
 * 15) Organizes bulletin boards and displays
 * 16) Waters plants weekly
 * 17) Helps promote library
 * 18) Notifies appropriate librarian of items requested
 * 19) Attends meetings and in-services when asked
 * 20) Works as a crucial member of the team
 * 21) Follows the supervisory chart (chain of command) when issues arise
 * 22) Runs overdue notices with other staff
 * 23) Deposits money at bookstore from fines and copier monthly and get change when needed for front desk
 * 24) Records 3M gate count Monday am and Friday pm
 * 25) Sends books to library clerk for repair
 * 26) Monthly story times with preschool
 * 27) Closing down and locking up if last to leave
 * 28) Performs duties as assigned by librarian

__Library Clerk/Media Technician’s Responsibilities__
= = The library clerk’s workday consists of eight (8) work hours and a thirty-minute lunch. The library clerk is responsible for the cataloging and processing materials in accordance with district’s job description. = = = = = = Performs duties as assigned by a librarian = =
 * 1) Checking-in new items and **marking received and date on purchase order**
 * 2) **Sending receipts to accounting and keeping track of money on blanket PO’s**
 * 3) Processing items (Follett, barcodes, labels, pockets, bug, cover) **to be checked by back librarian before going on shelves**
 * 4) Writing thank you notes with tax deduction information for donations
 * 5) Repairing items if it is possible
 * 6) Notifying **back librarian** if book is beyond repair
 * 7) Discarding books under supervision of **back librarian**
 * 8) Checking mail and delivering to library staff
 * 9) Reading and dusting shelves with other staff
 * 10) Inventory/weed with other staff
 * 11) Helps with promotion of library
 * 12) Covering front desk **or other areas when needed** (library assistant is at lunch, during library assistant’s off desk work 1 hour a day, after-school tutoring if applicable, **and some hours if library assistant is absent at the request of a librarian). This position is never responsible to open the library. The library assistant will open and if she is not present a librarian will open.**
 * 13) **Help covering the floor/lab during tutoring (out of office, circulating, and visible to students during the entire tutoring time)**
 * 14) Check-in and check-out of audiovisual equipment (VCR, boom box, camcorder, tripod)
 * 15) Helping Bill Maginnis with audiovisual tasks when needed
 * 16) **Helping school administration, faculty, staff and students with audiovisual equipment when needed**
 * 17) Monitoring student behavior and providing discipline when needed
 * 18) Asking for help from colleagues when needed
 * 19) Runs overdue notices with front librarian
 * 20) Assists students, teachers, and patrons with locating materials
 * 21) Notifies appropriate librarian of items requested
 * 22) Attends meetings and in-services
 * 23) Works as a crucial member of the team
 * 24) **Addresses any problems with this position to back librarian then follows chain of command if the issue is not resolved**
 * 25) Closing down and locking up if last to leave