School librarians already are the staff member in buildings who must consciously try to collaborate. Thus school librarians welcome a collaborative district model, but they wish to use their expertise to benefit the district's goal of quality education. Librarians are not against teaching students, but they wish to teach them in a way that uses their expertise. School librarians have expertise The Kansas Department of Education requires school librarians to have dual certification. Teaching certificate School library certification which requires 30 graduate hours in library and information management.
Librarians are the literacy advocates and literacy leaders of schools.
Librarians interlibrary loan books teachers want to use for classroom reading and books individual students want to read. The students in schools in the RIF program receive three free books a year. Administration of William Allen White Award voting requires promotion of reading various titles through checkout, classroom use and read-alouds before time for voting. Librarians not only administrate book fairs to promote reading, but also to raise significant moneys for the schools. Clerks and library assistants can check library catalogs for the holdings on teacher's bibliographies, but librarians also can suggest similar books already in the libraries to add to the bibliographies.