Library Syllabus

The goal of the Johnstown Elementary School Library Program is to foster the skill set necessary for each student to become an effective user of information in a wide variety of formats for both educational and personal growth. Our Library Media Centers, and the state certified Library Media Specialists in each building provide students and teachers with access to works with a range of text complexity, including stories, poetry, and literary nonfiction from a broad range of cultures and periods, and help to match the reader to text and task, taking into account reader variables such as motivation, knowledge, and experience, and task variables such as purpose and the task assigned.

The library program functions differently at the elementary and secondary levels. Students in grades K-4 have a fixed schedule, seeing the Library Media Specialist for 30 minutes once in every 6 day cycle for library instruction.

Students will utilize the Library Media Center print collections, which include a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and audiovisual items of varying reading and interest levels. Students will have access to technology in the Library Media Center, in the form of Internet-connected ChromeBook computers and Smart Boards.. Access to online database subscriptions, selected by the Library Media Specialist, will also be provided to students for use at school.