dale haar

district library coordinator

About

District Library Coordinator at Des Moines Public Schools

Country

united states

City

des moines

Industry

libraries

Skill

leadership, powerpoint, social media, public speaking, books, windows, teaching, english, higher education, strategic planning, fundraising, outlook, microsoft office, microsoft word, microsoft excel, proposal writing, nonprofits, editing, community outreach, customer service, budgets, management, research, grant writing, volunteer management

Experience

high school english instructor

se polk community school district

1974-8 - 1992-6 · 17 yrs 11 mos

middle and high school teacher-librarian

des moines public schools

1992-8 - 1999-6 · 6 yrs 11 mos

Worked to improve the library services delivered to students and faculty. At Hoyt, I wrote the proposal that named Hoyt MS the district technology demonstration school.

district library coordinator

des moines public schools

1999-7 - Present · 27 yrs 3 mos

I supervise 57 school libraries in the Des Moines district and manage 60 department members. Our goal is to provide the best school library services we can to our students and teachers with our yearly book (print & digital titles) budget, online database budget, magazine/journal budget, collection development/maintenance, providing relevant and curent professional development to my department members, of which over 95% are paraprofessionals.