Library
"In this information age, we are all information processors. Whenever we listen to a news report, talk to another student, read a magazine, look out over a crowd of faces in classes and lectures, we are perceiving and processing information. Once we have accepted this, then, we can set about improving our skills as processors of information at all levels in our lives."*
The Library Media Center of The John Carroll School supports the mission statement of the American Association of School Librarians. The statement reads as follows:
The mission of a library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. This mission is accomplished by: providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students.
It is the policy of the Library Media Center of The John Carroll School that its users may expect a high quality of service. This includes:
- Reliable Information
- Courtesy
- Access to Materials
- Consideration for suggestions, complaints, and praise
- Confidentiality of individual records of materials used
- An atmosphere conducive to the use of the library media center
* Based on Richard Wurman’s Information Anxiety, New York, Doubleday, 1989