LIBRARIAN jobs in South Carolina

Company Description

GREEN Charter Schools is a network of tuition-free public charter schools located in Spartanburg, SC. We are dedicated to preparing our students in STEM to creatively and responsibly impact our complex world in renewable energy, sustainability, and conservation efforts. At GREEN Charter Schools, every student is empowered to pursue their dreams and equipped to make a positive difference.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a School Librarian located in Spartanburg, SC. The School Librarian will be responsible for managing library services, implementing library science practices, maintaining metadata, providing library instruction, and overseeing library management.

1. Program Administration

• Establishes annual and long-range goals for the library media center including school-wide literacy goals and outreach program goals
• Plans, administers, operates, supervises, and evaluates the media center, developing policies to ensure efficient operation and optimal service.
• Prepares and administers the library budget, keeping records of all expenditures.
• Maintains an efficient system of classifying, cataloging, and circulating all library

materials; instructs teachers and students in the use of the library system.

• Develops policies and coordinates procedures for challenged materials.
• Maintains a schedule that is flexible and accessible to students and faculty.
• Supervises and trains paraprofessional, clerical, adult and student volunteers.
• Develops cooperative relationships with local public and academic libraries and other community organizations.
• Prepares schedules, with input from teachers and building administrators, for integrated information skills instruction.
• Keeps records of student use, circulation, purchases, and losses; provides regular reports on the library as required by the administration and as needed for planning purposes.
• Supervises the regular inventory of library materials, evaluates the collection, weeds obsolete and worn materials, and updates inventory records and the catalog.
• Promotes use of library media center materials through displays and published communications.
• Works collaboratively with many groups within the school culture: parents, teachers, students, administrators, and community members.

2. Instruction (Teaching and Learning)

• Assists teachers in identifying and accessing materials to support content-area instruction as well as professional growth.
• Consults with teachers about students’ instructional needs and learning differences
• Develops a broad view of the entire school curriculum to best support teachers in collaborative lessons
• Collaborates with classroom teachers to design, implement, and evaluate instruction that ensures integration of literature and information literacy skills into student learning.
• Provides direct reference instruction to help students develop attitudes and skills leading to lifelong learning and critical thinking skills for information access.
• Provides group and individual instruction in information skills, research strategies, digital literacy, and use of resources and equipment.
• Promotes literacy, reading, and library use through such activities as book talks, displays, publications, and special events.
• Engages students in developing engaging literacy promotions activities, events, reading challenges, etc.
• Provides reference and readers’ advisory services to the general student population, including students who have special learning needs or specialized intellectual interests.
• Provides professional development for the faculty in such areas as new information technologies and information literacy.
• Supports the continuing educational research of faculty and administrators.

3. Information Access and Delivery

• Functions as the informational technology leader within the school for classroom implementation purposes.
• Develops policies, procedures, and criteria for selecting a balanced collection to support the curriculum, representative of diverse points of view of a pluralistic society.
• Encourages faculty and student input concerning recommendations for purchase.
• Develops and maintains information networks and services; organizes, retrieves, and disseminates resources to support learners’ needs.
• Provides training to students and faculty in effective use of information systems.
• Interprets and applies information technologies in curricular context.
• Assumes a leadership role in fostering the principles of intellectual freedom; creates an environment to promote free inquiry and to expose students to a broad range of ideas.
• Ensures intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats for all learners.
• Serves as a district/school resource for issues regarding ethical use of information including issues of copyright and intellectual freedom.
• Prepares lists of topical and new materials to support class assignments and to promote interest in reading.

Qualifications

• Library Services and Library Science skills
• Knowledge of library management principles
• Ability to provide library instruction
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• Experience working with diverse student populations
• Bachelor's degree in Library Science or related field
• Master's degree in Library Science is a plus
• SC Teaching Certificate