MISD Libraries - "We're all about learning."

 

 

Vision Statement

Libraries in the Mesquite Independent School District are an integral part of the campus instructional program and an extension of the classroom.

 

In order to achieve this vision, the campus librarian takes on the roles of teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, reading advisor, and technology facilitator, working with faculty and administrators to develop instruction that increases the use of critical thinking and technology skills. MISD libraries offer a wide range of resources, technologies and services to increase student achievement in reading and other content areas.

 

 

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Mission Statement

To be integral to the teaching and learning process, in a way that challenges students, so that each one is equipped to succeed.

 

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Objectives of the MISD Library Program

MISD library programs are based on two sets of standards: the American Library Association's Information Power and the Texas School Library Standards and Guidelines.

 

The objectives of Information Power were prepared jointly by the American Library Association and the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, and asserts the school library media program encompasses the following objectives:

 

1. To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities that are integrated into the curriculum 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

   • a carefully selected and systematically organized local collection of diverse learning resources that represent a wide range of subjects, levels of difficulty, and formats;

   • 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 users 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 consulting assistance in the use of instructional and informational technology and the use of sound instructional design principles.

    

5. To provide resources and activities that contribute to lifelong learning, while accommodating a wide range of differences in teaching and learning styles and instructional methods, interests, and capacities.

    

6. To provide a facility that functions as the information center of the school, as a locus for integrated, interdisciplinary, inter-grade, and school-wide learning activities.

    

7. To provide resources and learning activities that represent a diversity of experiences, opinions, social and cultural perspectives, supporting the concept that intellectual freedom and access to information are prerequisite to effective and responsible citizenship in a democracy.

    

    

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