Mission and Goals

Mission

Empower students and staff to be effective users of information and ideas by providing varied resources, collaborative instruction, and intentional opportunities that enable them to be critical thinkers, purposeful readers, skilled researchers, and ethical users of information for life-long learning and enjoyment.

Library Goals

It is the goal of the CCMS library to empower all students to achieve information literacy, develop a love of reading, and to become life-long learners.

1. The library will be the information center of the school providing physical and intellectual access to information in all formats, print and electronic, with a wide range of subjects and levels of difficulty that represent a diversity of opinions and social and cultural perspectives.
2. Students will become information literate by using a variety of library media resources and technologies to locate, select, evaluate, interpret, organize, and present information relevant to a specific need or problem.
3. The library staff will collaborate with the school community to fully integrate library and information skills instruction into the curriculum and collaborate to improve student literacy.
4. Students will function as independent learners and pursue areas of personal interest through reading and research in the library, using library resources as well as resources beyond the school site.
5. The library program will provide an inviting, welcoming, accessible, and stimulating place for individual and group student and school community use.