In the instructional partner role, school librarians collaborate with classroom teachers to create independent learners by fostering students' research, information literacy, technology, communication, and critical thinking skills.
They also organize and maintain the library collection in order to promote independent reading and lifelong learning.
Materials in the library collection can be located using an Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).
This role also encompasses many activities relating to technology including the integration of resources in a variety of formats: periodical databases, web sites, digital video segments, podcasts, blog and wiki content, digital images, virtual classrooms, etc.
This is the Master of Education (Teacher-Librarianship) course at Charles Sturt University, available for professionally-qualified teachers.
Any person who possess a master's can take the state exam, "CAPES"[7] or "Certificat d'Aptitude au Professorat de l'Enseignement Secondaire" (Certificate of Aptitude for Secondary Education Teaching).
Often additional library science graduate coursework is required, focused specifically on issues pertaining to school librarianship.