Robin Cicchetti's List: Admin

• Today’s information universe affords opportunities for around-the-clock access to information in diverse and often unjuried venues. Citizens of this information world must have the skills and dispositions to access information efficiently and to assess critically the sources they rely upon for decision-making, problem solving, and generation of new knowledge.
• The school library program
• encourages students to examine the authority of authors and the bias of sponsors; to assess the importance of currency of information to the topic at hand; and to determine the scope and relevance of information to meet their needs.
• collaboration with the school librarian.
• school library program gives each individual member of the learning community a venue for exploring questions that arise out of individual curiosity and personal interest
• offers expertise in accessing and evaluating information, using information technologies, and collections of quality physical and virtual resources.
• ethically, and safely
• add value to the school community.
• school library program provides flexible and equitable access to all, physically as well as virtually.
•  Policies, procedures and guidelines are developed to maintain the school library program.  Library staffing and budget are sufficient to support the school’s instructional program and meet the needs of the school library program goals

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