Library Mission StatementThe mission of the Truman School Library is to create a student-centered library media center which provides a safe, nurturing environment in which students can successfully seek information and ideas for their educational, informational, and recreational needs. The library seeks to promote an appreciation of literature enabling students to interpret meaning from various forms of literature as they become lifelong readers and learners.
Further the library seeks to ensure that our students acquire the necessary information literacy skills they will need to become productive learners with skills and knowledge necessary to lead successful meaningful lives in the 21st century. This mission recognizes the essential role of the school library program in the educational process as students reach their full potential. Rationale Library Technology VisionThe Truman School Library believes that technology is a tool to be used in order to help promote well-rounded personal, educational, and professional growth by the school community.
In order to ensure students and staff reach their full potential, the focus of library technology should be providing the means to extend communication and expressive abilities, provide global access to information, collect, assess, and share performance information, and improve the effectiveness of administrative tasks. In order to specifically address the unique needs of the Truman school student body, technology will assist staff in addressing diverse learning styles, accommodating individual learning rates, encouraging cooperative learning, helping students accept responsibility for their learning, refine critical thinking skills and foster creativity, and provide skills and proficiencies necessary for the workforce. Collection PolicyMaterials collected for the library will be primarily e-texts of various forms (articles, essays, books, etc). Audio, video and pictures that can complement or supplement curricular instruction will also be included to a lesser extent.
Texts collects for the digital library shall be aimed at the appropriate grade levels for which they are intended (i.e. language will be age and developmentally appropriate for remedial, proficient, and advanced students). All works collected will be sourced from reputable sites with priority given to sites that are educationally-oriented. Further priority will be given to works that are primary or secondary or of a unique and valuable nature, to be determined on a case-by-case basis. Maintenance PolicyQuality sites will be added at the request of Truman School faculty and staff. Monthly spot checking of hyperlinks, URLs, and embedded materials will be conducted by the LMS. Broken hyperlinks and other malfunctioning materials will be corrected, replaced, or removed as necessary.
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