Library Media Supervisor License - Guidelines

Introduction

As of July 1, 2004, a library media supervisor license is required for any person who is responsible for supervising and evaluating professional staff in addition to directing the district library media program. A license may be issued to an applicant who

• holds or is eligible for the professional library media specialist license
• has 3 years of successful school library media experience,
• has completed an approved program for instructional library media supervisor, and
• has the institutional endorsement.

The approved program must include graduate course work in which the candidate will demonstrate proficiency in the competency areas listed in these guidelines.

Administrative Rule for the Library Media Supervisor License

PI 34.32 LIBRARY MEDIA SUPERVISOR.

(a) A library media supervisor license is required for any person who is responsible for supervising and evaluating professional staff in addition to directing the district library media program. A license may be issued to an applicant who has 3 years of successful school library media experience, who has completed an approved program for instructional library media supervisor, and who has the institutional endorsement.

(b) The candidate must demonstrate proficiency in all the following content standards.

Content Standards for the Library Media Supervisor License

Educational administration/leadership:

The candidate can:

• Articulate the principles of school administration and apply them to the school district's library media program
• Build consensus and motivate different people
• Monitor, assess, and employ existing and emerging technologies for instructional and management applications

School personnel management:

The candidate can:

• Apply a knowledge of human relations to the direction of library media program personnel
• Recruit, hire, train, assign, supervise, evaluate, and provide leadership for school library media specialists and other staff in the school district's library media programs

Supervision of instruction:

The candidate can:

• Apply knowledge of adult learning theory, program planning and evaluation, and curriculum development at the elementary, middle and secondary levels
• Apply appropriate research findings to improve teaching and learning throughout the school district and specifically within the library media program
• Participate in district-wide instructional leadership efforts
• Provide leadership in planning and using existing and emerging instructional and informational technologies in all aspects of the school district's educational program
• Assess needs, and develop and implement a program of inservice education that incorporates information and technology literacy and its integration into the curriculum

District level library media program supervision

The candidate can:

• Apply effective management principles to the administration of the district level library media program
• Work with faculty, administrators, instructional technology staff, and other library media professionals to establish library media program goals that are an integral part of the educational program in the district
• Initiate and direct activities involving faculty, administrators, and other library media professionals to meet the library media program goals
• Design, establish, and communicate district wide policies and procedures to meet the library media program goals
• Articulate and promote the library media program goals, activities, and policies, to appropriate individuals and groups
• Prepare, justify, and administer the district level library media program budget based on instructional program needs
• Develop proposals to secure funding from grant programs and other sources
• Evaluate in collaboration with faculty, administrators, instructional technology staff, and other library media professionals the instructional effects of the library media program.
• Advocate, initiate, and implement formal and informal agreements providing for increased availability and accessibility of information through interlibrary cooperation and resource sharing.
• Conduct research to assist in the development and operation of exemplary district level library media programs throughout the school district
• Facilitate the efforts of the district level library media advisory committee that includes administrators, teachers, library media staff, instructional technology staff, students, parents, and other representatives of the community
• Understand the principles and support the practice of free inquiry and access to information
• Model and promote ethical use of information and technology and respect and comply with intellectual property rights, laws, and guidelines
• Demonstrate awareness of laws and regulations that affect school library media programs
• Design school library media centers and other instructional facilities that support the instructional program and facilitate learning
• Support and develop a library media program that provides for equitable and flexible access to information, ideas, resources, and services both within and beyond the district

For questions about this information, contact Nancy E. Anderson (608) 267-9287

Last updated on 7/23/2009 8:29:16 AM