Mission:
The Van Alstyne libraries foster 21st century skills by providing students with flexible work spaces, ensuring a risk-free, creative work environment, and offer a multitude of resources that allow discovery, exploration, and innovation.
Goals
- Provide the learning community resources and materials which meet the needs of each individual patron
- Provide collaboration between teacher and library media specialist to integrate information literacy to enrich learning
- Promote information literacy
Description of Services
To Students
- Media center will be available to students and faculty before, during and beyond the school day, open 7:30-3:30 (elementary campuses) and 7:30-4:00 (middle and high school campuses)
- Maintain materials in an organized and usable order
- Maintain safe, inviting environment for students to utilize materials, equipment, and services
- Provide orientation of available resources and easy access to those materials
- Acquire materials appropriate to the learning styles of all students on campus
To Teachers
- Acquire materials related to learning standards to be achieved
- Acquaint new faculty members with materials, equipment, and operational procedures of media center
- Prepare bibliographies, as needed
- Schedule and plan with teachers to instruct in media center
- Inform teachers of new acquisitions
- Provide teacher resources to assist instruction in the classroom
- Serve as a resource and specialist in the realm of library services
- Provide teachers with copyright laws