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Online Program for New School Librarians

Application Information for Cohort 4 - Application Deadline November 1, 2008.

Are you interested in becoming a School Library Media Specialist?

You can apply to an on-line graduate program to educate teachers to become school library media specialists.  This program is offered on-line through Old Dominion University.  To see if online learning is right for you, visit the ODU Distance Learning Student Orientation Website.

To be eligible for consideration for cohort 4, you should be:

  • Licensed as a teacher in the Commonwealth of Virginia  (Minimum of Collegiate Professional License)
  • Seeking endorsement as a school library media specialist (This program is designed to recruit NEW LMS to the profession and is not for individuals who already have an endorsement as an LMS)
  • Teaching/residing outside Virginia Superintendent's Regional Study Group Region 2, except for Accomack and Northampton Counties on the Eastern Shore.   

There are two options in the program: 

  1. Endorsement on your current teaching certificate.
  2. Endorsement plus master's degree.

Application information for Cohort 4 - Due November 1, 2008. No decisions will be made before that review date.

Cohort 4 will not be funded by the IMLS Grant.  Contact your superintendent or personnel director to determine if there is funding within your school division to assist you with tuition.  Tuition rate information is available from the Office of Finance. Financial Aid information for graduate students is supplied by ODU's Financial Aid Office

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The information below is only students in Cohort 3:

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The information below is only for students selected for IMLS Grant Cohort 1 and 2.

Students in Cohort 1 and 2 are currently employed in a school in one of the following divisions:

  • Region 7:  Counties of Bland, Carroll, Giles, Russell, Tazewell, Wythe, Dickenson, Grayson, Pulaski,  Scott, Washington, Buchanan, Lee, Smyth, Wise.   Cities of Bristol, Norton, Galax, Radford.
  • Region 4:    Counties of Culpepper, Loudon, Prince William, Warren, Arlington, Fairfax, Fauquier, Madison, Orange, Rappahannock, Clarke, Frederick, Page, and Shenandoah.   Cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Manassas Park, Winchester, Fairfax, and Manassas.

              Detailed Information for Applicants - Cohort 2

Students in the IMLS Grant program can contact the grant office by e-mail.