2. Lecturer
Media Specialist Role:
Provides tours and orientation sessions to familiarize
students with:
Departments and collection location
Organizational schemes and explicit
reference tools
Schedule session as needed to aid teachers and students
3. Instructor
Media Specialist Role:
Provide lessons on detailed reference sources
• Support student’s cognitive stage
• Support classroom assignments
4. Organizer
Media Specialist Role:
Select, arranges, and manages resources through creation of
atmosphere that support:
User-friendly environment
Self-service environment
Establish policies that encourage students to access
informational resources
5. Tutor
Media Specialist Role:
Provide informational resources:
Explain the different relationships of resources
Suggest sequence of resources usage
6. Counselor
Media Specialist Role:
Participate in students’ ISP
Assist and provide cognitive, behavioral and support to
student tasks
Initiation, selection, exploration, formulation, collection and
presentation that support the process phases.
7. Assistance Levels Available to Students
during an ISP
Assistance Taxonomy
Organizer
Lecturer
Instructor
Tutor
Counselor
