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MISSION:
MISSION:
The School District of La Crosse K-12 Library program promotes the library as a virtual and physical place to read, learn, and expand personal and educational horizons. The mission of the Library program is to ensure students and staff have access to high quality print and digital materials for class and personal use in order to become effective users and creators of ideas and information, and responsible savvy digital citizens. The Library program provides educational technology support for the design and creation of projects; reading promotions for personal and information use; recommendations for online research resources; Makerspace opportunities; and the instructional steps toward eventual independent learning. Students may come to the library individually, in small groups, or with an entire class to use the space and available physical and digital resources.
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Growing a Community of Library users starting in La Crosse Schools (Dec. 25, 2022)
"The heart of our La Crosse schools beats in the school libraries. Vibrant, alive locations full of learning and knowledge, inquiry and discovery, and growing readers. That idea of the quiet space and shhh-ing librarian is long gone, replaced with storytelling, creating, reading, and making which is often not a quiet process...."
As a part of the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, school libraries fall under the Wisconsin State Statutes, which recognize the importance of libraries as a part of the state library system at-large.
Wisconsin Statute 43.001 (Libraries)
(1) The legislature recognizes:
(a) The importance of free access to knowledge, information and diversity of ideas by all residents of this state;
(b) The critical role played by public, school, special and academic libraries in providing that access;
(c) The major educational, cultural and economic asset that is represented in the collective knowledge and information resources of the state's libraries;
(d) The importance of public libraries to the democratic process; and
(e) That the most effective use of library resources in this state can occur only through interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries and the effective use of technology.
(2) The legislature declares that it is the policy of this state to provide laws for the development and improvement of public libraries, school libraries and interlibrary cooperation among all types of libraries.
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