Wolcott High School’s Library Media Guidelines

Education provides learners the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills to enrich their lives. The foundation of our library media program is to facilitate the competence of learners as unique individuals with interests and ideas, citizens, and future members of the workforce. The development of that competence comes from the learner’s clarity of task, ability to access information and literature, evaluate and synthesize information, produce critical and creative works, and communicate to an intended audience. Underlying this work is the learner’s ability to critically think and problem solve in an efficient, effective, and ethical manner.

The library/media specialist designs both stand alone and collaborative learning experiences to provide all students with the opportunity to achieve the goals articulated in the Connecticut State Department of Education’s Information and Technology Literacy Framework.

The success of all students is dependent upon the quality and consistency of the collaboration between the library media specialist and classroom teachers. Library media specialists dedicate their professional efforts not only to ensure vital media and tools are available to students and staff, but also to ensure that students and staff make the use of these media and tools an integrated and meaningful part of teaching and learning.