About
Mission
The mission of the Whitefish Bay High library is to educate the whole child by maintaining a welcoming space for all students' intellectual curiosity, personal growth and social and academic exploration.*
*Draft mission
Vision
The vision of the Whitefish Bay High School library is to empower and support every student, course and department to take on hard questions, to explore new ideas and to make ethical decisions. *
*Draft vision
Goals
Promote literacy and the enjoyment of reading through programming and course integration.
Develop and maintain a balanced, relevent and accessible collection of print and non-print material for all patrons.
Enrich the curriculum with resources, support, and programming.
Integrate information literacy skills throughout the currciulum by participating in curricular changes and actively engaging with departments and teachers.
2021-2022 Library Celebrations
Collections
Print Collection: fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, games, English course texts, graphic novels and DVDs
Digital collection: multiple databases for academic research, ebooks (fiction and non-fiction), newspaper subscriptions
Library: two main sections, three small group study rooms, a media production room, and flexible, comfortable seating
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.
Inclusion of “age” reaffirmed January 23, 1996.
“Library Bill of Rights.” Advocacy, Legislation & Issues, www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/librarybill. Accessed 15 Dec. 2021.