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Highly-qualified Library Media Specialists are in high demand. Education reforms now require students to be college or career ready for the 21st Century upon high school graduation.  The reality is that the responsibility for transforming these higher standards of learning falls on the shoulders of school leaders, particularly the library media specialist.

Education reforms have come and gone, and the roles of classroom teachers have changed throughout the years. But what about the Library Media Specialist? Have the roles really changed? Or have their roles evolved into the visionary limelight of innovative instructional leadership and the methods of delivery?

You decide.

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With the implementation of Common Core Standards, the roles of the Library Media Specialist have shifted greatly from a traditional isolated learning environment to an information and technology-rich collaborative culture. No longer is it the standard for school librarians to solely provide a variety of text materials for students and teachers. The time has come for librarians to focus attention on effective implementation of the standards, learn new ways of sophisticated teaching using advanced technology tools, foster creativity and innovation, while insuring the circulation of texts and managing cultural programs. Students kindergarten through grade twelve now must have the knowledge and skills to be "information literate" in order to compete in a global society.

Whether it's Librarian or Library Media Specialist... yesteryear or the near future. The fact remains that the roles of this invaluable key player have basically remained the same, AND stood the elements of educational reform. The shifts lie in the levels of expertise and the implementation of global innovation and technology to enhance the impact on student learning.

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2014 The More Things Change… the More They Stay the Same

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2014 The More Things Change… the More They Stay the Same

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Much has changed with the explosion of 21 st Century technology and evidence-based learning. This past year, the 2014 School Library Month celebration theme was, “Lives Change @ your library.” Information literacy coupled with the inquiry method of teaching has had a huge impact on learning. The expertise and implementation of new technologies by school librarians is critical to this process. Yet the need to make an impact in schools remains the same:

Create avid readers

Collaborate with teachers

Enhance and teach information literacy

Ensure technology enhances the learning process

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Twenty-five years later, a new title was given to leaders of school libraries. The School Library Month Committee wanted to include the title of “school librarian” instead of school library media specialist. The roles of the "librarian" were to:

Provide differentiated instruction for all students

Take a leadership role in promoting inquiry

Encourage collaboration with classroom teachers

Use social networking, such as the Internet, to enhance teaching and make an impact on student learning.

Sound familiar?

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In April 1985, Lucille Thomas, chair of the School Library Media Month Committee, orchestrated the first National School Library Media Month. The first theme was “Where Learning Never Ends: The School Library Media Center.” Theorists of school library media communities constructed the roles of the library media specialist to meet the needs of the learning activities of the school as such:

Teach literacy - reading skills

Collaboration with teacher

Information literacy

Enhancing learning through t echnology - basic computer skills

These roles were at the center of teaching and the building blocks for learning.