This document describes the features and resources of a school library media center. It outlines amenities like comfortable seating, books organized by section, and technology like a smartboard. It discusses providing professional development for teachers and an inviting space for collaboration. It also lists resources for students, teachers, and the community to promote literacy including ebooks, websites, and programs like summer reading. The goal is to support the curriculum, learning, and foster a love of reading.

1. Jenny L. Wyatt, Ed. S.
The University of Memphis
ICL 7730
June 21, 2012

3.  Comfortable seating for exploring books!
 Story rug and chair for storytelling and making friends
with wonderful characters!
 Shelves and shelves of books, organized in labeled
sections.
 Smartboard and projector for making lessons
interactive!

4.  Award-winning texts
 literature that can be used with writing, language
arts, and research topics
 Ebooks
 Latest technology

5.  Providing professional development that is valuable
 Providing materials that help teachers meet the ever-
changing demands of our role.
 Creating an inviting space where teachers feel free to
collaborate with others

6.  Technology is a way of life for students, and it has been
incorporated into the way they learn. “…the library can
become the essential core of the school’s curricula with
the librarian as the teacher if information literacy, one
of the most important skills for 21st-century learners”
(Mondloch, 2011, p. 45).

7.  Student resources…
 Tennessee R.E.A.D.S.;
http://reads.lib.overdrive.com/793624FD-EED8-4ED4-
AEBC-6A763B6D3706/10/391/en/Default.htm
 Morristown-Hamblen Public Library, our local library;
http://morristownhamblenlibrary.org/index.html
 Tennessee Electronic Library;
http://www.tntel.tnsos.org/

8.  Teacher resources:
 Tennessee Electronic Learning Center; http://www.tnelc.org/
 TN Core, a site about the switch to Common Core Standards;
http://www.tncore.org/
 Read Tennessee; http://www.readtennessee.org/
 Tennessee Reading Association; http://tnreads.org/
 List of trade books by subject;
http://www.lebanon.k12.mo.us/profdev/picturethis_2005040
6.pdf

9.  Literacy Day: Involving the community in sharing the
joy of reading
 Accelerated Reader
 Literacy Carnival as a wrap-up for a year of growth as
readers!
 Summer Reading Program

10.  I will also be a valuable asset to the teachers by
collaborating with them in their grade level meetings.
Learning is more meaningful when there is continuity
across the curriculum. One journal states, “ A school
that believes in rigorous and relevant student-focused
learning also commits to a mission-centered
mindset…all stakeholders believe that the learner-
based accomplishments they are in business to
produce are challenging, possible, and worthy of the
attempt”(Zmuda & Harada, 2008, p. 15).

11.  Not only are we able to light the torch of
literacy, we are able to carry the flame in all
that we do. As partners in education, we can
put the “value” in value-added.

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