WPS Library Media

WPS Digital Learning & Library Media Program Goal

The Digital Learning/Library Media and Computer Science Department's mission is to promote critical thinking, creativity, communication, computational thinking, collaboration, & information literacy through the purposeful usage of analog & digital texts, online databases, Ed-Tech tools, digital literacy, & creative computing curriculum used by students & teachers in personalized, blended & virtual environments.

Please click here to meet the WPS Ed-Tech/Library Media and Computer Science Team.

Cunniff Elementary Library

Hosmer Elementary Library

Lowell Elementary Library

Watertown Middle School Library

Watertown HIgh School Library

Watertown Free Public Library

Please visit your child’s school library website & contact the library media educator for more information about the digital, analog, ebook, audiobook titles.

Why are library media centers important for students and staff in Watertown?

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Important Links

WPS Library Selection Guidelines
Sample Book Collections 2021-22: Elementary|Secondary
Library Material Selection Process | Library Resources
Reconsideration of Instructional Resources

Libraries provide the blueprint for teaching students research skills, digital citizenship, safety online, and information communication skills [1]

“School librarians have deep expertise in digital literacy skills; have well-developed instructional strategies based on thinking critically, communicating creatively in a variety of media, and solving problems creatively; and are often role models for strong leadership, initiative, and other career and life skills.”

Trilling, Bernie. 2010. “From Libraries to Learning Libratories: The New ABC's of 21st-Century School Libraries.” School Library Monthly 29 (1): 43.

“School libraries provide equitable physical and intellectual access to the resources and tools required for learning in a warm, stimulating, and safe environment.”

American Association of School Librarians. 2007. Standards for the 21stCentury Learner. Chicago: ALA.

[1] School Libraries Build Strong Students

Libraries provide 21st century professional Collaboration to their teaching colleagues [1]

Student test scores were higher the more time librarians worked cooperatively with classroom teachers, the more they taught information literacy independently, and the more they provided in-service training to teachers.

Lance, Keith Curry, Marcia J. Rodney, and Christine Pennell-Hamilton. 2000. Measuring Up to Standards: The Impact of School Library Programs and Information Literacy in Pennsylvania Schools. Greensburg, PA: Pennsylvania Citizens for Better Libraries.

[1] School Libraries Build Strong Students