Elementary Library Media Skills
Philosophy
Given today's rapidly expanding base of information, it is important that each student develop essential library media skills that will enable them to function effectively in the 21st Century.
The Library Media Skills curriculum focuses on strategies that allow each student to retrieve, interpret, utilize, and evaluate information as it is presented in both print and non-print formats.
While the curriculum responds to the future, it also reflects upon the past. Each student will be introduced to the rich cultural heritage of many nations, as it is viewed in various forms of literature.
Open access to materials must be provided to ensure that students are effective users of ideas and information. The Library Media Skills program will foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas. A cooperative effort with other educators will be emphasized to develop learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students.
It is the goal of the Library Media Skills curriculum that each student will become an independent, effective, life-long user of library resources.
Goals
- Care for books and materials properly and follow circulation procedures.
- Interpret catalog card components to locate materials.
- Distinguish between fiction and nonfiction.
- Locate, gather, and interpret information from a variety of reference sources.
- Use periodicals to get up-to-date information.
- Apply the Dewey Decimal System to locate materials.
- Find information about people using biographical sources.
- Identify the parts of a book and appreciate different kinds of literature.
- Demonstrate the use of computer hardware and software.