| District |
Name |
School |
County |
South Metro |
Christopher Parker |
Mt. Carmel Elementary |
Henry County |
Northeast |
Andy Plemmons |
David C. Barrow Elementary |
Clarke County |
Coastal |
Shannon Robertson |
Southeast Bulloch Middle |
Bulloch County |
Southwest |
Cheryl Youse |
Colquitt County High |
Colquitt County |
East |
Angela Davis |
Grovetown High |
Columbia County |
Southeast |
Beverly Brostek |
Brunswick High |
Glynn County |
Georgia
School
Library Media Specialist
of the Year
Sponsored
by
Georgia
Association for Instructional Technology (GAIT)
Georgia
Library Media Association (GLMA)
The
two state school library media professional organizations, GAIT and
GLMA co-sponsor the Georgia School Library Media Specialist of the Year
Award to recognize K-12 library media specialists whose services have
resulted in exemplary library media programs.
Rules
and Procedures:
1.
Nominees must be currently assigned to a building level library media
center, have three or more years of experience as a library media specialist,
and be a member of one of the sponsoring organizations.
2.
Any member of the LMSOTY Committee who is nominated for the award must
resign from the committee but not from the Board of Directors. Any member
of the governing board who is nominated for the award shall abstain
from voting on matters related to the award during their term of office.
Therefore, current members of the GAIT & GLMA Board of Directors
are eligible for the award.
3.
Administrators, teachers, parents or other library media specialists
may submit nominations for System Level Library Media Specialist of
the Year to the School System Library Media Committee.
4.
The School System Library Media Committee will review the nominations
and select a Library Media Specialist of the Year to recognize and honor
at the system level and will also handle local recognition in the news
media. System level selection has to be completed and postmarked to
the GLMA office by April 1, 2011 .
•
Each GLMA district chair will convene a committee to
review the system level applications in order to
select a district winner by May 15, 2011. From these district winners,
the Library Media Specialist of the Year of the Year (LMSOTY) will be
chosen from a group of GAIT and GLMA members at the Summer Institute
in June.
6.
This state winner will be announced at the 2011 Georgia
Council of Media Organizations (GaCOMO) conference.
All district winners, as well as the state winner, along with their
enablers, will be recognized and presented awards at the GaCOMO general
session. Each district LMSOTY should plan to be at the GaCOMO conference
where awards are given and the state winner is announced. District
winners are encouraged to attend the conference.
7.
District chairs are encouraged to make nominations from within the district,
especially if there are few nominees. The district chair or his/her
delegate should see that area newspapers are notified of the selection
of this person.
Application
Form:
(See
appendix for format.) Incomplete applications will not be judged. The
entire application may not exceed seven (7) pages and must consist of:
1.
A one page cover sheet. See the attached cover sheet
in appendix.
•
A one page résumé (vita
or résumé) which can be single-spaced. See
the attached sample for suggested formatting. The resume must
not exceed one page and must be in a list format . Assessors
will not judge a narrative format or consider any information which
exceeds the one page limit.
•
A written narrative,
not to exceed three (3) double-spaced pages, which discusses the philosophy
of your library media program with supporting examples and specific
evidence (see judging criteria below). The
narrative must not exceed three double-spaced pages and must
include headings which correspond to the rubric which will be used for
judging. Font size must be size 11 or greater. Margins must be at least
one inch on all sides. See the attached sample for proper formatting.
Assessors will only judge three pages and not consider any information
past three pages.
•
One letter of recommendation
written by the
person placing the nomination which may come from a teacher, parent,
administrator, or fellow library media specialist. The letter must not
exceed one page.
•
A statement about your enabler
providing the name, position, address, email address, and telephone
number of the person who has been most professionally influential in
enabling you to establish an exemplary library media program. An enabler
is an individual who, more than anyone else enables the library media
specialist to provide an exemplary program. Because exemplary school
library media programs do not exist in isolation but are the heart of
the instructional program, there is an individual who stands out as
enabling the library media specialist to provide an exemplary program.
Write a one-paragraph rationale of your selection.
•
Proof of membership in GAIT or GLMA
by attaching a copy of a current membership
card from either organization to the nomination. (This does not count
as one of the seven required pages.)
Judging
Criteria:
The
Library Media Specialist of the Year Award is awarded for individual
excellence in the library media field through service to students, teachers,
and community at the K-12 levels. Examples of each of the following
must be cited in the application and will be the criteria used for judging:
- Leadership
role through staff development, committee involvement, or professional
advocacy
- Involvement in professional
organizations
- Promotion of information technology
utilization and literacy
- Promotion of reading and literature
- Involving parents and/or the
community in the library media program as partners
- Working
collaboratively with the educators in your building
- Innovative techniques used
in your library media program
- Deliberate
and ongoing professional development as a learner which is relevant
to media services
Prizes
for Recipients:
- System
Level Recipients – Prize determined
by each local school system
- District
Level Recipients - $50.00, a plaque,
and a certificate for each enabler (All will be presented by the state
organizations at GaCOMO)
- State
Level Recipient - $200.00, a plaque,
a one-year membership to GAIT and GLMA, and a certificate for the
recipient's enabler (presented at GaCOMO).
Submitting
applications :
Each
System Library Media Committee should mail one complete application
package postmarked to the GLMA Executive Office
below by April
1, 2011
LMSOTY
Chair
GLMA,
Inc.
2711 Irvin Way, Suite 111
Decatur , GA
30030
Library
Media Specialist of the Year Cover Sheet
Include
this cover sheet with your packet
Your
Name: _________________________ Home Phone
#: _________________
Email
Address:______________________________________________________
Name
of your School: ________________________________________________
School
Address: ____________________________________________________
County
in which your school is located: __________________________________
GLMA
District in which your school falls: __________________________________
(See
GLMA District Map located at www.glma-inc.org)
LMSOTY
Checklist:
Have
you included:
____
1. Proof of membership in GAIT or GLMA for current year
____
2. A letter of nomination/recommendation
____
3. One page biographical sheet
____
4. A statement about your enabler
____
4. Written Narrative (3 pages)
____
5. Six copies of entire application including this cover sheet
Do
not write in this box. This box is for the LMSOTY Chair only:
Current
Membership in GAIT or GLMA has been verified:
GAIT:
______ Year: ______
GLMA:
_____ Year: ______
Appendix
Format
for Résumé
which must be in a List Format
- Not to exceed one (1) page – May be single-spaced]
NOMINEE'S
NAME
Nominee
for XYZ
County
School
System
2009
Library Media Specialist of the Year
Biographical
Sheet
Name
of School
Superintendent's
Name and Principal's Name
School
Name, Grades, and Size (Number of students)
Educational
Background
Personal
and Professional Achievements/Honors/Leadership Roles:
Appendix
[Format
for written narrative - Not to exceed three (3) double-spaced pages.
Headings must be used.]
NOMINEE'S
NAME
Nominee
for XYZ
County
School
System
2009
Library Media Specialist of the Year
Written
Narrative
Discuss
the philosophy of your library media program as it relates to the following
items citing examples as evidence:
Leadership
role through staff development, committee involvement, or professional
advocacy (cite examples)
Involvement
in professional organizations (cite examples)
Promotion
of information technology utilization and literacy (cite examples)
Promotion
of reading and literature (cite examples)
Involving
parents and/or the community in the library media program as partners
(cite examples)
Working
collaboratively with the educators in your building (cite
examples)
Innovative
techniques used in your library media program (cite examples)
Deliberate
and ongoing professional development as a learner which is relevant
to media services (cite examples)
Name:
_______________________
Judging
Criteria for the Library Media Specialist of the Year Award
As
a judge, you are looking for evidence that the following eight categories
have been met. This should be evident in the letter of nomination, their
resume, or their narrative. Look for examples
cited in any of these three
. This is their evidence of fulfilling these judging
categories. If an applicant is providing only their philosophy of involving
parents and community as partners, for example, and not citing any examples
of how they have accomplished this, he/she should receive a score of
1 in this category. A score of five indicates going above and beyond
what is expected in a normal media program. You will need to judge what
constitutes going above and beyond the norm when scoring in each category.
(Assign
points from one to five, with 1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest)
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