LibrarianBy Danie’l Fish

Intermediate Librarian

The goal of the Central School District Library Media Program is to ensure that students become lifelong learners who are effective users of ideas and information.

The idea is that these students will grow up to be globally minded, without having to be global travelers.

Library Media Program Goal Statement

Each curriculum is designed around a guiding question, which must be answered using several different medias.

New York State Learning Standards must be included in that guiding process.

Standard 1: Language for Information and UnderstandingStandard 2: Language for Literary Response and Expression Standard 3: Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation

Standard 4: Language for Social Interaction

Standards for the 21st Century Learner

Needs/ Rationale for Selection Development Plan

Grades: 3-6 Student Population: 600 Collection Size: apx.13,000 titles

Current Information

Collaboration

The Librarian is helpful with: Discovering interesting topics Enhancing research skill of both teachers and students Improving writing skills of ideas Changing attitudes of doing projects and research Improving information seeking and use Student interaction Teacher interaction Fostering reading engagement Attributing to learning outcome

Helpful

Promoting literacy is the second objective that we use to reach our goal of ensuring that students become life-long learners who are effective users of ideas and information.

Goal

LRS Library Research Service: Research and Statistics about Libraries. July 2008. Colorado State Library, University of Denver. 20 March 2010 http://www.lrs.org/index.php

New York State Learning Standards http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/pub/standards.pdf

School Libraries Work!: Research Foundation Paper. 2008 Scholastic Library Publishing. 20 March 2010 http://www2.scholastic.com/content/collateral_resources/pdf/s/slw3_2008.pdf

Standards for the 21st Century Learner http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/learningstandards/standards.cfm

Work Cited