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North Middle School Library Mission Statement:

The mission of the North Middle School library media program is to empower students as proficient readers, effective, self-reliant, and critical users of ideas and information, thereby encouraging lifelong learning.

Goals:

Provide resources in a variety of formats and developmentally appropriate levels in order to meet the information and reading needs of students.
Provide open access to the media center to allow students daily opportunities to browse, explore and use media center resources.
Provide assistance to students in carrying out resourced-based learning activities.

Library Media Program

At North Middle, we have flexible scheduling. Any student may visit the library at any time even though there are classes who meet at a scheduled time each week. This basically means that even though a student may come into the library with their class on a given day of the week, they are still able to visit the library at any other time.

The advantages of a flexible library media center schedule are many:

Students develop important skills which will enable them to better manage the information explosion and become more effective users of a wide variety of information resources.
The media center is used all day, every day, allowing costly school-owned resources to be used more fully.
Students work independently in using library resources and take on more responsibility for their own learning.
Students are encouraged to read by being able to check out a book on any day.
Teachers view the library media center as an extension of their own classroom with the librarian as a partner in the planning and implementing of learning activities for students which meet curricular needs.
Students are allowed to check out two books at a time. They are due back to the library in two weeks. The books should always be returned in the same condition that they were when they were checked out.

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