Administrative Skills, Analysis Skills, Audiovisual, Billing, Budgeting, Cataloguing, Communication Skills, Cost Control, Data Entry, Information Technology & Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans, Inventory Management, Library and Information Science, Record Keeping, Reporting Skills, Request for Information (RFI), Secondary School, Statistics, Team Player, Training/Teaching
Position Title: Librarian
Reports directly to the building-level principal
Primary Purpose: The Librarian reports directly to principal and provides librarian and research services. Providing adequate services to ensure that materials are current and accessible, and available to library users when required.
Qualifications:
- Valid teaching license
- Ability to communicate effectively with students, school personnel, and parents and an ability to work cooperatively with others.
- Ability to motivate students and get them excited about learning.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the planning, administrative and budgetary functions of library and information services
- Establish and implement library and information policies and procedures
- Develop and manage cost-effective library and information services, technology and media.
- Order materials and maintain records for payment of invoices
- Analyze and evaluate library and information services, technology and media service requirements
- Prepare reports related to library and information services, technology and media services, resources and activities
- Develop and maintain collections management policies and procedures
- Perform original cataloguing and classification of print, audio-visual and electronic resources
- Develop and maintain special indexing systems and files for special collections
- Ensure an accurate inventory of resources
- Ensure efficient retrieval by users
- Search external database programs for the availability of cataloguing copy
- Maintain inventories, compile statistics and generate reports as required
- Develop and maintain cataloguing procedures
- Distribute materials for cataloguing
- Determine the type of cataloguing required
- Enter cataloguing data into the library's automated system
- Respond daily on-site requests for information
- Train library users to effectively search the Library catalogue, Internet and other electronic resources
- Provide an interlibrary loan service for both book and audiovisual materials and maintain records
- Perform other related duties as required
- Adhere to code of ethics
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Mississippi Department of Education