Overview

Our library curriculum is a standards based curriculum.  The New York State Learning Standards emphasizes the ability of students at all levels to access, evaluate and use information resources such as primary source documents, new technologies, and Internet sites.  The role of the school library media specialist is crucial if our students are to meet the New York State Standards.  The intent of this curriculum is to guide the school library media specialists in our district to accomplish this goal.

The American Library Association has proposed a set of national standards for information literacy published as INFORMATION POWER The Nine Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning (cited in this document as Information Power). These nine standards are specific to school library media specialists and are useful to understanding our role in using the New York State Standards.

Technology is fundamental to the library curriculum. Information is frequently delivered through a technological medium therefore the library curriculum integrates the district’s newly revised technology curriculum.

It is important for all of our schools to use a common research technique.  We have adopted the "Big6(tm) Skills Curriculum" (http://big6.com/) developed by Michael B. Eisenberg (University of Washington) and Robert E. Berkowitz (Syracuse University) as the research strategy students will apply to their assignments.