Learner Centered Literacy

Inspires and supports the reading lives of both students and teachers

Creates inclusive collections that acknowledge and celebrate diverse experiences and provide instructional opportunities to empower learners as effective users and creators of information and ideas.

Current Status and Growth Initiatives

Current Status:

Collection Development:

  • Library Media Specialists follow Board Policy 361.2, 362.2 Rule, and the Library Bill of Rights established by the American Library Association while working on collection development.

  • Library Media Specialists also rely on professional and peer-reviewed publications, curated lists from sources such as the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), American Library Association (ALA), International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and recently published professional publications focused on various collection development areas.

  • Collection development also focuses on reflecting the diversity of our students, families, and the global community. The Wisconsin Library Association affirms its support of personal liberty, the freedom to read, and intellectual freedom for people across Wisconsin.

  • The Library Program provides multiple formats of reading materials: Print books, digital books, research databases, e-edition newspapers, and magazines.

  • Library Media Centers also provide multimedia devices that support library programming, such as: AR/VR headsets, iPads, Chromebooks, audio/video production equipment, associated apps and software, Breakout EDU platform.


Growth Initiatives:

The Seymour Community School District Library Media Specialists continuously work to improve all library collections to reflect the diversity in our community and our world. We prioritize collection development and a library program that makes every effort to ensure that our books, material and information resource selections are relevant, timely, and easy to access and use.

ALA Library Bill of Rights

The American Library Association affirms that all libraries are forums for information and ideas, and that the following basic policies should guide their services.

I. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.

II. Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.

III. Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide information and enlightenment.

IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.

V. A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.

VI. Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use.

VII. All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information.

Adopted June 19, 1939, by the ALA Council; amended October 14, 1944; June 18, 1948; February 2, 1961; June 27, 1967; January 23, 1980; January 29, 2019.