Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
School Librarian Standards and Guidelines (School Library Programs: …
School Librarian Standards and Guidelines
School Librarian Certification: Standards & Guidelines for Texas (May - 2005)
Standard 3: Learner-Centered Technology & Information Access
Principle 1 - balanced, organized collection; electronic & print resources; current collection that meets the needs of all students
Principle 2 - promotes and models highest standard of ethics using the web; integrity and ethics for print and electronic resources
Principle 3 - provides access to technology for staff; promotes integration of technology instruction; provides input on the development of technology for campus and district
Principle 4 - collaborates with staff during planning sessions; models problem soliving research techniques; utilized all formats of resources
Standard1: Learner Centered Teaching & Learning
Principle 1: promotes collaboration with faculty; differentiates instruction; follows state standards/TEKS, develops research strategies
Principle 2: promotes reading incentives locally, statewide, and nationally; encourages reading, writing, and listening for enjoyment and for understanding.
Principle 3: designs ongoing instruction for students and staff; integrates technology; models ethical uses of resources.
Standard 4: Learner-Centered Library Environment
Principle 1- Library design aligns with educational objectives; flexible seating options; advocates Commissioner's Rules of Concerning School Facilities;
Principle 2 - flexible, functional facility; provides seating for small groups, classes, and individuals; offers opportunities for community; high level of safety and security
Standard 5: Learner-centered connection to community
Principle 1 - provides students, staff, and communities opportunities for collaboration; promotes student success; sponsors events community and school events;
Principle 2 - facilitates access to library resources; maintains library website; designs training for library resources; promotes summer reading programs;
Principle 3 - knowledgeable about learning differences; awareness of ethnically and culturally diverse interest in the school and community; implements plan for accommodating learning differences;
Principle 4 - develops and maintains marketing vision for the library; participates in community programs and groups; communicates vision, goals, and services;
Standard 6: Learner- Centered Information Science & Librarianship
Principle 1- ensures library collection is available to all; develops library website in collaboration with staff; leader in collaborating with staff and other librarians
Principle 2 -ensures library program is essential to intellectual life; assumes leadership role on campus decision committees; creates a library advisory committee;
Principle 3 - utilizes tool for collection development; evaluates collection; maintains a collection with an age of less than 10 years; employs standarrd bibligraphic techniques.
Principle 4 - selects existing or new technologies to support the library program; researches library programs through reviews, specialist, and conferences'
Principle 5 - communicates with staff for informational needs; fulfills most requests for curriculum; inspires a love of reading; provides access to the right book; participates in the evaluation of standardized reading scores.
Principle 6- demonstrates ethical behavior; promotes intellectual freedom; provides privacy and proprietary rights
Principle 7 - engages in constant self-evaluation; participates in professional growth; contributes and participates in professional associations;
Standard 2: Learner-Centered program leadership & management
Principle 1: advocate for the library; creates and implements library vision and goals including policies and practices.
Principle 2: encourages life long learning; manages volunteers and staff to promote and support curriculum;
Principle 3: manages library budget; advocates for funding; maintains a program that supports curriculum and student success.
Principle 4: uses research and data collection to show importance of the library program; evaluates library program annually; develops an improvement plan with data;
School Library Programs: Standards & Guidelines for Texas (April - 2017)
Strand 1 - Information Literacy
Dimension 1 - use information correctly; access digital and print resources for all needs: academic, inquiry, and personal.
Dimension 2 - practices ethical and legal use of information; validates information as approved by EFA and Library Bill of Rights.
Strand 2 - Inquiry
Dimension 1 - Maintains current collection of materials in multiple formats; resources support inquiry learning and the needs and interests of students.
Dimension 2 - library program based on inquiry; student use helps create, pursue, and share knowledge.
Dimension 3 - offers students opportunities for real world problems; opportunities for students to interact with multiple formats.
Dimension 4 - provides professional development opportunities; promotes inquiry-based teaching; inquiry-based learning.
Strand 3 - Reading
Dimension 1 - encourages reading for both pleasure and information; provides various formats in a collection including print, audio, and electronic;
Dimension 2 - supports instruction through research-based strategies; promotes reading incentives locally, state-wide, and nationally.
Dimension 3 - collection includes diverse materials for both leisure and information; diversity in collection supports curriculum and state standards.
Dimension 4 - collaborates with other libraries including public and academic; collaborates with information institutes including museum.
Strand 4 - Digital Learning
Dimension 1 - promotes use of technology in all content areas; technology is used for discovery, collaboration, creation, presentation;
Dimension 2 - engaging technology tools; demonstrates learning;
Dimension 3 - promotes diverse collection; collection includes print and digital; virtual libirary evident
Dimension 4 - promotes and provides emerging technology and the ethical and creative use;
Dimension 5
Dimension 6
Dimension 5 - models understanding of policies and procedures locally, state-wide, and nationally; use of digital-tools ethically;
Dimension 6 - understands and uses digital citizenship appropriately; understands copyright rules; understands and promotes online responsibility
Strand 5 - Safe and Nurturing Environment
Dimension 1- learning environment shows respect for all; sense of community
Dimension 2 - meets TAC codes for individuals, groups, and classes.
Dimension 3 - provides opportunities for communities; provides opportunities for families;
Dimension 4 - heart of the school; promotes achievement, digital literacy, and culture.
Dimension 5 - provides a safe, inviting, accessible space; includes appropriate signage and rules.
Strand 6 - Leadership
Dimension 1- evidence of best practices; includes professional development; opportunities for collaboration; promotes independent use;
Dimension 2 - provides purposeful professional development opportunities;
Dimension 3 - included in campus and district planning
Dimension 4 - data analysis used to improve library program;
Dimension 5 - equal access to resources; available for all students and staff;
Dimension 6 - program has policies and procedures that align with the district and state; contains a mission; contains goals, vision, and objectives;
Dimension 7 - library staff and volunteers are trained to best serve students and staff;
Dimension 8 - promotes library activities;
Dimension 9 - protects user's rights; follows FERPA laws, and ALA Privacy practices;
Strand 7 - Appendix
Dimension 1 - Percent of students who receive library instruction each grading cycle.
Dimension 2 - Special Programs and Events
Dimension 3 - Collaboration: teaching, assessing, and creating.
Dimension 4 - Extended Hours
Dimension 5 - Collection Age
Dimension 6 - Collection Refresh Rate (Weeding)
Dimension 7 - Elementary Collection Size - Minimum
Dimension 8 - Secondary Collection Size - Minimum
Dimension 9 - Use of Print and Digital Resources per student
Dimension 10 - Digital Resources - offered through state and on and off campus
Dimension 11 - Budget - Resources (per year)
Dimension 13 - Technology (per seat in the library)
Dimension 12 - Budget - Operational (per year)
Dimension 14 - Technology Access - in the library
Dimension 15 - complies with ADA, maintains a library webpage, advocates through social media
Dimension 16 - Professional Development - beyond what is required
Dimension 17 - Facilities - Exceeds Commissioner's Rules
Dimension 18 - Elementary Staffing - ADA Standards
Dimension 19 - Secondary ADA Standards
Dimension 20 - District Level Staffing - combination of professional and paraprofessional