Guiding Principles

Ohio’s Guidelines for Effective School Library Media Programs are the basis for managing a school library media center, building a resource collection that is mapped to the curriculum, and delivering literacy/library programming. Our libraries foster a love of reading and define the essential information literacy, technology literacy, and media literacy skills instruction necessary to provide our students, kindergarten through grade 12, with high quality library programs that reinforceOhio’s academic standards.

Our Mission

The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. This mission is accomplished by:

• Providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats

• Providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information

• Working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students.

• Establishing the Librarian/Media Specialist as an instructional partner in the educational process

• Reinforcing academic content standards and aligning national library standards

• Integrating the use of technology for information acquisition, evaluation, interpretation, and dissemination

• Representing information literacy knowledge, including technology and media literacy, conceptual learning and skill development

• Implement the framework for 21^stCentury Literacies for teachers and students