Program Objectives
During the certification program students will gain experience in the following areas, as required by ALA/AASL Program Standards:
- Professionalism: The ability to demonstrate a commitment to personal professional growth.
- Communication and Group Dynamics: The ability to communicate effectively with students, faculty, staff, administration, parents, other colleagues and the general public.
- Collection Management: The ability to apply basic principles of evaluating and selecting resources and equipment to build and maintain a resource collection.
- Collection Utilization: The ability to use resources to support the personal, developmental and curricular needs of students, and the instructional development needs of faculty.
- Production Management: The ability to assist faculty and students to design and produce resources.
- Organization: The ability to implement policies and procedures for effective and efficient acquisition, cataloging, processing, circulating and maintaining equipment and resources.
- Administration: The ability to develop, implement, and evaluate school library media programs to meet educational goals, including the management of personnel, resources and facilities.
- Instructional Leadership: The ability to serve as a learning facilitator within schools and as a leader of faculty, administration and students in the development of effective strategies for teaching and learning.
- Access: The ability to develop a school library media program dedicated to providing access to information and ideas.