Our state is participating in the federally funded grant project called SLIDE: The School Librarian Investigation—Decline or Evolution? (https://libslide.org) The three-year project is examining national data on school librarian employment and how school leaders make the decisions to staff library, learning resources, and instructional technology services for their K-12 students. As a component of the study, a content analysis of school library and instructional technology-related job descriptions will be conducted to learn if and how roles are changing, blending, or morphing with other instructional positions.
- Keith Curry Lance, RSL Research Group, and Deb Kachel, Antioch University Seattle, the project leaders, are asking for job descriptions that are:
- Professional positions related to library, learning resources, and instructional technology for K- 12 students
- Recent or currently in use for school librarians, instructional technology professionals, or related positions that may include some of the work of a librarian
- Full-time or part-time; may be district or school-level positions
- Must include the name of the school district, city, and state on the job description or announcement
The project is particularly seeking related job descriptions with various titles and roles, not the standard school librarian job description as modeled by AASL. We have already received plenty of the standard, more traditional school librarian job descriptions. Some examples of related job titles may include:
- Coordinator of information literacy
- Digital literacy teacher
- Educational technology-information literacy specialist
- Information skills and technology teacher
- Learning coach/librarian
- Learning resources specialist
- Library-technology educator
- Teacher librarian-technology coach
- Instructional technology facilitator
Please submit your position descriptions or job postings from your district or area directly to Marcia Rodney mrodney@rslresearch.com or Deb Kachel dkachel@antioch.edu
Thank you for supporting this important research.
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