Library Media Teacher Credential

Become a Librarian
Teaching Information Literacy - (Knowledge Network K-12 News, Winter-2004)

"Students who score higher on tests tend to come from schools which have more library resource staff and more books, periodicals, and videos, and where the instructional role of the teacher-librarian and involvement in cooperative program planning and teaching is more prominent."
The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement.

Just the Facts

In our district,

Quartz Hill High School has a credentialled Library Media Teacher who is working in the library for two periods a day ('05-'06). We are hoping for a better assignment for '06-'07.

Antelope Valley High School, Desert Winds High School, Eastside High School, Highland High School, Knight High School, Lancaster High School, Littlerock High School, Palmdale High School, and R. Rex Parris High School do not have a teacher on assignment or a Library Media Teacher working in their Library Media Centers.

What is Needed

In California a Library Media Teacher Credential is needed to work as a Librarian or Library Media Teacher in a school library.

The Library Media Teacher Credential is in addition to a California Teaching Credential.

Talk to us

Sandra Wayne, District Librarian
swayne@avhsd.k12.ca.us (661) 948-7655 X283

Library Media Teacher:
Quartz Hill High School: Diana Fait

Where to get Information

Fresno Pacific Online and Bakersfield:

Jo Ellen Misakian, Library Media Credential Program Director
jmisakian@fresno.edu (559)453-2291 (w) (559)251-8795(h)
Fresno Pacific Library Media Teacher Information Link

San Jose State University at Fullerton and Long Beach

Professor David V. Loertscher
davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu (408) 924-2501

or contact:
Library and Information Science
Blanche Woolis, Director
bwoolis@wahoo,sjsu.edu (408) 924-2491
San Jose Universtiy Library Media Teacher Information Link