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Position Timeline: 2023-2024 academic year

Status: Full-Time, 1.0 FTE

Department: Library and Academic Technology

The librarian and media specialist is responsible for all aspects of the library programs and facilities, supervises the library assistant, and seeks to ensure that the library’s academic and technology resources complement, enhance, and extend the school’s educational program. The librarian and media specialist will collaborate closely with the division directors, the director of academic technology, and the faculty.

The key responsibilities of the position include:

• Create and maintain a dynamic and joyful teaching and learning environment that is inviting, safe, flexible, and conducive to reading, studying, and research
• Oversee training and instruction for staff, faculty, students, and the parent community on computer services, research tools (including databases), and other library technologies in response to curricular and community needs and interests.
• Liaise with the technology team, implement systems hardware and software upgrades, and manages licensing for library programs.
• Provide knowledge, vision, and leadership to ensure the continuous quality and relevance of the library program and digital and information literacy and digital wellness curriculum in the 21st Century.
• Partner with faculty to build and strengthen connections between student information and research needs, curricular content, learning outcomes, and information resources.
• Provide leadership and expertise in the selection, acquisition, evaluation, circulation, and organization of information resources and current technology.
• Empower PreK – 12th-grade students to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• MLS, MLIS, or equivalent master’s degree from an ALA-accredited institution
• Love of reading, including young adult and children’s literature
• 3-5 years of experience as a professional librarian and media specialist in a school, public, or academic library
• Experience with elementary, middle, and high school students
• Proficiency with current library technology
• An understanding of current and emerging information literacy practices, standards, pedagogies, and assessments
• Experience with digital literacy and digital wellness

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with PreK-12 grade students in an independent school setting.

Applicants from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply as Mounds Park Academy is dedicated to better reflecting our student body and the Twin Cities area through this addition to our exceptional faculty and staff. Information about our school can be found at www.moundsparkacademy.org.

About Mounds Park Academy

Mounds Park Academy is a PreK-12 independent school in Saint Paul, MN that serves approximately 575 students from throughout the Twin Cities area. Since 1982, Mounds Park Academy has engaged students in a rigorous college preparatory experience that is demanding, but not draining, and goes far beyond memorization. Students are challenged to apply their understanding to stir the human spirit, stand for justice, and shake the world. This is what we call rigor with purpose, and it grounds our students in the radical idea that their identity in the world is not measured by a test score, but rather by the depth and decency of their impact on the world. MPA is committed to embracing diversity, seeking equity, and continually striving to be truly inclusive. As a community, MPA is focused on fostering a safe and inclusive space for all, aspiring to be cognizant of gender-identity and equality, religious understanding, socio-economic diversity, and racial justice.

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