Meet our Leadership Panelists: Doc Roth
Dr. Robert Roth is the Library Director of The English High School (EHS) Library. One of three Emerging Leaders Project participants on the panel, Doc also leads by serving on several committees for the Massachusetts School Library Association & American Association of School Librarians. He is a GSLIS graduate.
"Going to Simmons College GSLIS and taking paraprofessional library positions marked a career change for me. I began leading in this profession by taking on the job of overseeing the production and sale of Simmons GSLIS t-shirts and sweatshirts; then by serving as treasurer of LISSA. I graduated from Simmons in May 2002.
At EHS, I oversee all library functions in my position as Library Director. In addition, I serve on the Instructional Leadership Team and the Teacher Leadership Team. I served as Co-chair of the committee that rewrote the Mission Statement and Expectations for Student Learning and as Co-chair of the Accreditation Steering Committee.
In the library profession, I sit on the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts School Library Association in the capacity of Co-chair of the Legislation Committee and previously as Constitution and Policy Chair. In the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a Division of ALA, I serve on the Legislation Committee and the Publications Committee. Both of these 2-year appointments terminate at the time of the ALA Annual Conference in June. The AASL recently reorganized its committee structure. I have not heard what my upcoming appointments will be although I hope and expect that they will be in the areas of advocacy for school libraries and the interactions of a school’s library program with teaching and learning throughout the school’s curriculum. The AASL sponsored me and the ALA selected me for the Emerging Leaders Project."