Library

Mission

The mission of the District 28 library program is to collaborate with members of the school community, empowering students with the essential skills for using ideas and information effectively, developing an appreciation of literature and other creative expressions, thus enabling them to become lifelong learners.

The mission of our school library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.

About Us

Our Library Resource Center has more than 15,000 items, principally fiction and nonfiction books that can be checked out for two weeks, and renewed for two more weeks. Students can have up to four books checked out at a time, and no more than one material overdue at any given time in order to check out.

Before school, the LRC is open for team meetings, and to individual teachers needing books or multimedia materials. During school, every K-5 classroom is scheduled to check out books once a week. Grades K-2 are scheduled to come into the library once a week for check out and library skills while grades 3-5 are on a flexible schedule when classroom teachers sign up for a designated time in the library to perform research or learn information literacy skills that are directly tied to curricular content.

After school, staff may check out print materials. Grade level teams, special services and departmental staff seek assistance in creating new research activities matched to their curricular units, and in selecting new materials to enrich the project lessons.