Library Department

Goals: 2007 - 2008 School Year

1. Refinement of approved library curriculum.
2. Continue to help implement Reading for Life programs in secondary buildings.
3. Attend Access PA training at I.U.#5.
4. Update department website, listed on MTSD main page and Curriculum page.
5. Attend County Inservice, Share Northwest regional meetings.
6. Study the use of web-based programs for bibliographic citation.
7. Promote the use of NetTrekker at all schools.
8. Work on 3-5 year budget plan for all libraries.

Goals: 2006 - 2007 School Year

1. Refinement of approved library curriculum.
2. Continue to help implement Reading for Life programs in secondary buildings.
3. Attend Access PA training at I.U.#5.
4. Update department website, listed on MTSD main page and Curriculum page.
5. Attend County Inservice, Share Northwest regional meetings.
6. Study the use of web-based programs for bibliographic citation.
7. Promote the use of NetTrekker at all schools.
8. Work on 3-5 year budget plan for all libraries.

Goals: 2005 - 2006 School Year

1. Refinement of approved library curriculum.
2. Continue to help implement Reading for Life programs in secondary buildings.
3. Welcome new middle school librarian at Westlake.
4. Welcome new middle school library assistant at James S. Wilson.
5. Attend and share ideas from the October AASL Convention in Pittsburgh.
6. Work with DOIS to implement new catalog/circulation system.
7. All library staff attended Follett training in August; address problem areas and additional programs at future department meetings (Alliance Plus, Marc Magician.)
8. Update department website, listed on MTSD Curriculum page.
9. Work with Curriculum department to restructure elementary program.
10. Attend Access PA training at I.U.#5.
11. Work with Curriculum department in determining strength and continued use of the Accelerated Reader program.

Goals: 2004 - 2005 School Year

1. Refinement of approved library curriculum.
2. Develop ways to implement Reading for Life programs in secondary buildings.
3. Work with DOIS to implement new circulation system.
4. Update department website and add library curriculum to site.
5. Work with Curriculum department to restructure elementary program.
6. Write job description for Elementary Book Processor.
7. Update Library Assistant job description.

Highlights from past 3 years:

1. Wrote library curriculum and passed by School Board 11/02.
2. Developed Library Policy & Procedure Manual.
3. Presented Library Department Long Range Plans to School Board 11/02.
4. Welcomed new Literacy Resource Specialist into Library Department.
5. Updated Reading for Life program.
6. Received training on new Access POWER databases.
7. Continue to find ways to integrate curriculum with core curricular areas.
8. Increased members of Library Advisory council.
9. Work to enhance cooperation with public library through “Homework Alerts.”
10. Developed Powerpoint presentation on plagiarism.
11. Updated board-approved job description for Technical Services Librarian.
12. Updated board-approved job description for Elementary Library Assistant.

ALA and AASL

Goals of the School Library Media Program

1. To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities that are integrated into the curriculm and that help all students achieve information literacy by developing effective cognitive strategies for selecting, retrieving, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, creating, and communicating information in all formats and in all content areas of the curriculum.
2. To provide physical access to information through:
   1. a carefully selected and systematically organized local collection of diverse learning resources that represent a wide range of subjects, levels of difficulty, and formats.
   2. a systematic procedure for acquiring information and materials from outside the library media center and the school through such mechanisms as electronic networks, interlibrary loan, and cooperative agreements with other information agencies; and instruction in using a range of equipment for accessing local and remote information in any format.
3. To provide learning experiences that encourage students and others to become discriminating consumers and skilled creators of information through comprehensive instruction related to the full range of communications media and technology.
4. To provide leadership, collaboration, and assistance to teachers and others in applying principles of instructional design to the use of instructional and information technology for learning.
5. To provide resources and activities that contribute to lifelong learning while accommodating a wide range of differences in teaching and learning styles, methods, interests, and capacities.
6. To provide a program that functions as the information center of the school, both through offering a locus for integrated and interdisciplinary learning activities within the school and through offering access to a full range of information for learning beyond this locus.
7. To provide resources and activities for learning that represent a diversity of experiences, opinions, and social and cultural perspectives and to support the concept that intellectual freedom and access to information are prerequisite to effective and responsible citizenship in a democracy.