School Library Certificate
ONLINE
Students complete this degree entirely online.
The School Library Certificate is for certified teachers interested in adding to their license. The core learning concepts for the certificate include: collaborative instruction, design, delivery, and assessment, integrated technology, student inquiry, 21st Century skills and processes, collection development, library program administration, basic resources and ILS management, PK-12 youth literature, and advocacy and leadership.
For more information please contact Kym Kramer, MLS, Director of School Library Education, kakramer@indiana.edu, 317-278-2093.
Requirements
Required Courses (13 cr.)
- LIS-S 502 Acquisitions and Management of Knowledge and Information
- LIS-S 571 Materials for Youth or LIS-S 672 Seminar on Literature for Youth
- LIS-S 603 Workshop in Cataloging for School Librarians
- LIS-S 604 Topics in Library & Information Science (Inquiry and Innovation)
- LIS-S 671 School Media
Electives (3 cr.)
Choose one.
- LIS-S 557 Marketing for Libraries
- LIS-S 571 Materials for Youth
- LIS-S 573 Education of Information Users
- LIS-S 591 Grant Writing
- LIS-S 603 Workshop in Library and Information Science
- LIS-S 621 Audio and Video Sources
- LIS-S 640 Seminar in Intellectual Freedom
- LIS-S 672 Seminar on Literature for Youth
The commonly listed per-requisites, LIS-S 500 & LIS-S 507, are not requirements for school library certificate students.