Library Mission & Philosophy

Riverview Elementary School's library & media center is a place where all Rockets are welcome and can come to enjoy learning. 

My philosophy as your school librarian is to help to instill a love of literacy and learning into my students, provide information to all children and their families, teach students how to find resources that enable them to be able to research, and help them to develop critical thinking skills that they will use throughout their lifetimes.

I am dedicated to following Rudine Sims Bishop’s philosophy of ensuring that all students are provided books that function as windows, mirrors, and doors. Bishop uses "Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors" as an analogy to discuss the importance of diversity in books and the authors who write them. Sims says, "We need books in which children can see reflections of themselves – but also look through and see other worlds.”