High School Head Librarian

Beijing No. 35 High School’s International Department (Est. 2012) is located in Beijings Daxing district, about 40 minutes from the downtown area of the city. Beijing 35 (Est. 1923), altogether, has four campuses; a regular high school in Beijing’s central Xicheng district, a middle school, and a vocational college. If you come, you would work for the International Department and would have the choice to live in either the city (each morning catching a shuttle bus from Beijing’s Guomao area), or in Caiyu town, Daxing District where the International Department is located.

Academically, Beijing 35’s International Department is part of a crucial stage in development. As our enrollment has skyrocketed in recent years, we are becoming more selective about the students we receive. This year, the school opened a brand new 6 floor teaching building with state-of-the-art facilities containing computer labs, a music room, exercise facility, dance room, a multipurpose room, classrooms, offices, staff tea/coffee room, etc. All rooms have a large touch screen monitor television connected to a computer and overhead projector (camera enabled, not the mirrored kind). 

The role of the Head Librarian is to:

-Facilitate coordination of the libraries so that libraries work in sync

-Provide the leadership and expertise necessary to ensure that all the libraries work in sync

-Work with the Curriculum Coordinator to develop and refine a Library Curriculum for ZIA with specific goals and objectives appropriate to each grade level

-Coordinate library events throughout the school

-Work with all librarians to ensure accurate inventories are kept of resources throughout the school

-Assist with the recruitment, interview process, and training for new library media specialists

-Advise teachers on collection development strategies and resources

-Oversee the budgeting, ordering, cataloging, circulation, inventory and distribution of instructional resources, and ensure that proper and consistent procedures are followed in all ZIA libraries

-Manage the ZIA Libraries

-This position directly oversees ZIA librarians and supports the personal development and coordination of all ZIA librarians