[aisle] school library staffing level recommendations

[Jordan Adams]

I am in a 6-8 middle school with about 475 students.
I am a certified school librarian with my MLIS and my teaching degree for
media specialist k-12.
We do not have a library class that students attend. The library is open
all day to students, except for my 30 minute lunch when I close the library
(which is during the grade level lunch periods anyway).
I do have a student group of approx. 20 students every morning during what
we call x-block. This is a time for students that need extra help to get
that and for others to explore other academic activities (makerspace, quiet
reading, brain games, etc.)
I am the only one in charge of collection development and everything that
goes along with it, including both physical and electronic resources.
I also host grade level activities such as book tastings.
I am the sole chairperson for Scholastic Book Fairs. We have two a year and
they each run for a week.
I am also in charge of our One Book, One Community program and everything
that comes along with that (contacting authors, vetting books, hosting a
student group to rate and read, ordering the books, planning the travel for
the author, as well as the day of events, and spreading this information
throughout the community, etc.).
I am also part of the before and after school duty rotation (bus duty,
crosswalk duty, morning supervision before the first bell, etc.)

All in all, I'm a one man show for everything library related, minus
teaching an actual set class.

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 9:23 AM Rebecca Dougherty via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Does ALA, ALSC, AASL, AISLE, or any other professional school librarian
> association have research and data driven staffing level recommendations
> for school libraries?
>
> In addition, how many students are in your school and how many staff do
> you have staffing your library? What duties are you responsible for
> including how many classes do you teach? How many lunch/recess/etc. duties
> do you have?
> Are you in a district where you create and share lesson plans among
> teaching librarians or are you the sole person responsible for doing so? Do
> you use any set curriculum? Do you co teach with any colleagues? Do you
> teach information literacy and/or digital citizenship?
> Are you solely responsible for collection management including selecting,
> purchasing, processing, and cataloging new materials along with weeding? Do
> you provide access to electronic resources including ebooks and databases?
> Do you organize/plan programs including author visits, holiday programs,
> etc.?
> I am specifically looking for K8 information but would love to hear from
> anyone :).
>
> Thank you,
> Rebecca Dougherty, MLS
> Librarian
> she, her, hers
>
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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*Jordan Adams, *MLIS
RCMS School Librarian


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