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The
Mission of the North Junior High School Library Media Program is to
encourage the students and staff to be effective users of ideas
and information.
This mission is accomplished by providing intellectual and physical access to a wide variety of quality material, from diverse sources, in as many formats as possible and by providing instruction to develop competence and inspire a lifelong interest in learning. Collaboration with teaching teams ensures students will have positive, multidisciplinary opportunities to think critically about information they encounter, use it ethically, apply it appropriately, and learn according to their needs. Adapted from AASL and AECT 1988/98 as published in Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. "Today this mission focuses on offering programs and services that are centered on information literacy and that are designed around active, authentic student learning as described in information literacy standards for student learning." These goals, in summary, are: 1. To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities integrated into the curriculum and develop student abilities to access, think through, and communicate information in all formats and content areas. 2. To provide physical access to information through a. maintaining a local collection. b. maintaining access to sources outside the media center. 3. To provide learning experiences that encourage students to be "discriminating consumers" and "skilled creators" of information. 4. To help teachers and others plan effectively for media and information instruction activities. 5. To encourage lifelong learning and reading for pleasure. 6. To provide a program that functions as the information center of the school with integrated and interdisciplinary learning activities in school and access to additional information beyond the program. 7. To provide a broad range of resources and diverse perspectives in support of intellectual freedom and responsible citizenship, both prerequisites to maintaining democracy.
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