AISD Lowery Library Media Center Mission Statement
The Allen ISD library media program ensures that students and staff are effective and ethical consumers and producers of ideas, information, and technology; empowering the learning community to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, and lifelong learners.
The Library Media Center:
- Provides access for learners to visit the library media center on an individual, small group, and large group basis as needed
- Allows information skills to be taught at the point of need in a meaningful context that meets a curricular objective
- Promotes a partnership between the Library Media Specialist and learning leaders to integrate the use of resources and facilities into the daily instructional plan
- Involves learners in making meaningful connections between classroom learning and information skills
- Allows learners and learning leaders to utilize the Library Media Center resources and current technology independently
- Provides staff development in building reading and information literacy and enhancing learning through technology
So that:
- Learners will actively use the processes and skills to apply and communicate information as lifelong learners in a changing world