Prepare, plan, and operate audio-visual teaching aids for use in education. May record, catalogue, and file audio-visual materials.

Other names for Audio-Visual Collections Specialists: Audio Visual Coordinator, Audio Visual Secretary, Audio Visual Specialist, Audio Visual Technician, Audio-Visual Arts Director, Audio-Visual Director, Audio-Visual Specialist, Audiovisual Production Specialist, Instructional Services Specialist, Library Media Specialist, Media Specialist, Media Technician, Multimedia Services Coordinator, Television Technician, Visual Education Director,

• Set up, adjust, and operate audiovisual equipment such as cameras, film and slide projectors, and recording equipment, for meetings, events, classes, seminars and video conferences.
• Offer presentations and workshops on the role of multimedia in effective presentations.
• Attend conventions and conferences, read trade journals, and communicate with industry insiders to keep abreast of industry developments.
• Instruct users in the selection, use, and design of audiovisual materials, and assist them in the preparation of instructional materials and the rehearsal of presentations.
• Maintain hardware and software, including computers, scanners, color copiers, and color laser printers.
• Confer with teachers to select course materials and to determine which training aids are best suited to particular grade levels.
• Perform simple maintenance tasks such as cleaning monitors and lenses and changing batteries and light bulbs.
• Develop manuals, texts, workbooks, or related materials for use in conjunction with production materials.
• Direct and coordinate activities of assistants and other personnel during production.
• Determine formats, approaches, content, levels, and mediums necessary to meet production objectives effectively and within budgetary constraints.
• Acquire, catalog, and maintain collections of audiovisual material such as films, video- and audio-tapes, photographs, and software programs.
• Narrate presentations and productions.
• Construct and position properties, sets, lighting equipment, and other equipment.
• Develop preproduction ideas and incorporate them into outlines, scripts, story boards, and graphics.
• Plan and prepare audiovisual teaching aids and methods for use in school systems.
• Produce rough and finished graphics and graphic designs.
• Locate and secure settings, properties, effects, and other production necessities.

• Media control systems
• Public address systems
• Cassette players or recorders
• Hammers
• Compact disk players or recorders
• Desktop computers
• Digital camcorders or video cameras
• Digital cameras
• Digital video disk players or recorders
• Cassette players or recorders
• Notebook computers
• Overhead projectors
• Stage or studio lighting systems
• Liquid crystal display projection panels
• Microfiche or microfilm viewers
• Film projectors
• Multimedia projectors
• Epidiascopes
• Overhead projectors
• Personal computers
• Loudspeakers
• Screwdrivers
• Slide projectors
• Audio mixing consoles
• Still cameras
• Televisions
• Video cassette players or recorders
• Projection screens
• Videoconferencing systems
• Voltage or current meters
• Microphones

Office suite software

Word processing software

Charting software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Desktop publishing software

Data base user interface and query software

Internet browser software

Electronic mail software