Library Media Center Hours
We are open Monday-Friday 8-3 and Tuesday nights until 6pm
Scheduling the Library Media Center and Computer Lab
Vision and Goals of the Computer Lab
MISSION STATEMENT
The library media program will provide a warm, caring environment where students and staff become effective users of ideas and information, nurture and interest in reading and encourage a desire for lifelong learning.
PHILOSOPHY
Shelburne Community School strives to ensure that each child investigates, masters and applies the knowledge, skills, values and behaviors necessary for lifelong learning and meaningful participation in a global society. A school library media program that is fully integrated into the school's curriculum is central to this process. Such a program is critical to the students' intellectual development by promoting a love and learning and conveying the importance of using and evaluating information and ideas throughout life.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
It is the goal of the Shelburne Community School Library Media Center to meet the challenges presented in Information Power: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, prepared jointly by the American Association of School Librarians and the Association of Educational Communications and Technology and published by the American Library Association. Therefore, in order to implement the library media philosophy and goals, our program must:
1. Provide access to information for the entire school community.
2. Enable library media specialists, administrators, teachers, parents and students to work together to ensure that the program contributes fully to the educational process.
3. Incorporate traditional resources with new technologies as teaching and learning tools that represent a diversity of experiences, opinions, social and multicultural perspectives.
4. Support the concepts of intellectual freedom and access to information.
5. Encourage a love of reading.
6. Ensure that the library media center is convenient, comfortable and aesthetically inviting with adequate facilities and appropriate space for all resources and activities.
CURRICULUM
A major function of the library is to support the school curriculum which is based on the Vermont Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities. In order to achieve this, the library media program fosters a warm, caring environment where and interest in reading is nurtured and students and staff become effective users of ideas and information.
A school library media program
must to embedded in the core curriculum. Information skills are essential
to that curriculum. Research and library skills are taught in conjunction
with teaching objectives and curriculum goals that allow for individual abilities
and differences. Information literacy projects should connect directly to
Vermont's Framework of Standards and Learning Opportunities. Each project
should identify standards to be addressed across the vital result areas,
including field of knowledge standards as appropriate, and use these to plan
assessment for each project.
The Library Media Center Computer Lab
In order to have access to a constantly changing world that is dependent
on information our students need to be technologically literate. Students
must be informed navigators, critical thinkers and analyzers, creators of
knowledge, and communicators using a variety of technologies if they are
to effectively participate in this technological age. Integrating technological
instruction throughout the curriculum provides the essential skills to meet
the challenges of the information age.
GOALS
Students in grades k-5 should have the opportunity to become competent users of computers and other technology tools; to have technology integrated into the curriculum; to use technology for communication and research; and to create multimedia presentations.
Students in grades 6-8 will integrate the use of computers and other technology tools in their content learning. All students will become competent in the use of word processing, databases, spreadsheets, hypermedia, and Internet to develop data manipulation and analysis, inquiry, critical thinking, collaborative problem solving, research and communication skills. Students will explore data display, analysis, and communication skills in language arts, social studies, science and math. The media specialists will facilitate the process of conducting research. The students will create multimedia and web pages to communicate with others.
Use will be curriculum driven, based on projects/units from the classroom
The Lab will operate on a flexible schedule - sign in as you would for the LMC
Plan with Kari or Ellen in advance if you want us to teach skills to the class
Teachers must remain with their class in the Lab
