Media Clerk - Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy - 2024-2025 SY

JOB GOAL:

To provide a functional and inviting library that supports the school curriculum and recreational reading; to assist the Library Media Specialist in informing teachers, students, staff and community users of available library resources and learning tools; to collaborate with teachers in supporting their in instructional delivery; and to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of the Library Media Center at Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy.

SUMMARY:

The vision of the Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy is to leverage support from families and community stakeholders to provide meaningful and engaging learning experiences to grow and equip leaders who will shape and impact the world in positive ways within and beyond the walls of our school. Lacey Academy seeks to provide a rigorous, structured academic setting where leaders learn and learners lead. Students at Lacey will benefit from a rich collection of opportunities designed to equip learners with the necessary tools to lead within and beyond the walls of the school so that they are able to positively impact their communities and society.

We believe that all students can learn and that they deserve a quality educational experience in a safe environment. We affirm that learning is required, and success is our standard. Using quality, grade level instruction, coupled with engaging, meaningful, and affirmative educational experiences, we will cultivate and nurture an environment that celebrates the diverse strengths of our learners to build and grow prepared and healthy people so they can achieve success at high levels, both at school and in the community.

With the School Wellness Wheel framework as our foundation, the Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy will serve as a beacon to stakeholders and an avenue to addressing trauma, promoting wellbeing, and elevating learning for all. This will be done through giving deliberate intention to implementing school-wide systems that embody mastery-based learning opportunities, a growth-based educational approach, and strength-based instruction in every classroom. Learners will engage in high levels of hands-on experiences, real world investigations, and applied literacy and mathematics learning. Students at Lacey will have opportunities to engage in structured science, technology, reading/writing, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STREAM) experiences from kindergarten through eighth grade, building a strong cohort of leaders who possess 21st Century skills for collaborative problem-solving, technological literacy, and career-readiness.

Additional Requirements:

Participate and successfully complete the required on-boarding and professional development boot-camp beginning July, 2024 and continuing throughout the school year, both on and off contract.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

Nine and one-fourth (9.25) month contract (188 days) - Grade 03 plus benefits package. NOTE: Precise placement within the salary range will be determined based upon experience. FLSA: Non-Exempt.

Salary Range: $

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of high school diploma.

• Typing speed of 45 words per minute with accuracy.

• Demonstrates aptitude for the work to be performed.

• Demonstrates the conviction that all children can and will learn in the Little Rock School District.

• Evidence of strong interpersonal skills.

• Evidence of strong oral and written communication skills.

• Evidence of a strong commitment to quality desegregated education.

• Must display knowledge of word processors and computers.

• Prior experience in a library is desirable.

• Bilingual Spanish-speaking preferred.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

The following statements of duties and responsibilities are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this position. These statements are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities required of all personnel within this position.

• Embrace the K-8 school configuration and best practices with high expectations and promote student success while adopting a student-centered focus that allows students to grow socially, emotionally, physically, and academically.

• Supports the vision and mission of Dr. Marian G. Lacey K-8 Academy by working collaboratively with the administration and ALL staff to create a positive, safe and learner-centered environment.

• Demonstrates strong work ethics, a passion for creativity and always open and receptive to new and innovative ideas.

• Participate and successfully complete the required professional learning bootcamp beginning in the summer of 2024 and continuing throughout the school year, both on and off contract.

• Types and processes orders, reports, bibliographies, forms, library schedules, letters to publishers, catalog cards, and the like.

• Orders and receives books selected for purchase by the librarian.

• Maintains files of catalog cards, vertical file material, publishers' catalogs, and the like.

• Makes simple repairs on damaged books and processes more severely damaged books for repair at the bindery.

• Readies books for reserve on teacher's request, and maintains the back-number stacks.

• Prepares current magazines for shelving and maintains the back-number stacks.

• Assists in the annual inventory of library materials, and the preparation of lists of missing books to be discarded.

• Shelves incoming books and oversees the general neatness and attractiveness of library and its displays.

• Maintains current inventory of supplies and suggestions for acquisition as needed.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills and/or abilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the abilities or aptitudes to perform each duty successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Mental Functions, Physical Requirements, and Working Conditions:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, go up and down stairs, operate foot and hand controls, use a telephone and write. Occasionally the employee must lift and/or move up to twenty (20) or more pounds. This position requires accurate perceiving of sound, near and far vision, depth perception, handling and working with educational materials and/or objects, and providing oral information. Must have the ability to work for the duration of the daily contracted time period, and to be physically present and at assigned work, with only infrequent unexcused absences, during the contract year. Additional technical skills, knowledge, and abilities may be recommended by immediate supervisor and approved by the Human Resources Director.