Allen ISD Library Media Center Mission Statement

The Allen ISD library media program ensures that students and staff are effective and ethical consumers and producers of ideas, information, and technology; empowering the learning community to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, and lifelong learners.

The Library Media Center:

• Provides access for learners to visit the library media center on an individual, small group, and large group basis as needed

• Allows information skills to be taught at the point of need in a meaningful context that meets a curricular objective

• Promotes a partnership between the Library Media Specialist and learning leaders to integrate the use of resources and facilities into the daily instructional plan

• Involves learners in making meaningful connections between classroom learning and information skills

• Allows learners and learning leaders to utilize the Library Media Center resources and current technology independently

• Provides staff development in building reading and information literacy and enhancing learning through technology

So that:

Learners will actively use the processes and skills to apply and communicate information as lifelong learners in a changing world