• To create opportunities for participation in voluntary inquiry for lifelong learning. 

Our ECISD Libraries provide a community in which everyone continuously. . . 

• Has freedom of choice;

• Can explore their interests and feed their passions;

• Can experience new ideas, thoughts, cultures and places in the world;

• Finds a sense of belonging;

• Learns to discern.

•  To provide a curriculum-based library program that supports three major curriculum components:  

• Independent student research  

• Literature appreciation  

• Instruction that supports classroom content and instructional strategies.  

These three components stand on the foundation of an open access schedule that lets members of the learning community use library resources at the point of need.

• To provide 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 resources for accessing local and remote information in any format 

•  To provide a facility that functions as the information center of the school and community and is a place for integrated, interdisciplinary, inter-grade learning activities for all stakeholders.

• 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.