The school library media program serves all of the students of the school community. The collection includes materials to meet the needs of all learners, including the gifted, as well as the reluctant readers, the mentally, physically, and emotionally impaired, and those from a diversity of backgrounds. The school library media program strives to maintain a diverse collection that represents various points of view on current and historical issues, as well as a wide variety of areas of interest to all students served.
The goals and objectives for the South Holland School District Library/Media Center are:
- To offer full accessibility to all students and staff throughout the school day to the materials and services of the media center through flexible scheduling
- To encourage correlation of classroom activities and media services through teacher/media specialist collaboration and planning
- To provide the materials that will support the curriculum and will meet the varied needs, abilities, and interests of the patrons served
- To provide materials which will extend knowledge, experience, and literary appreciation
- To help patrons develop habits of inquiry and encourage competency in the use of available resources and to attempt to locate within the system, any requested materials not permanently housed in the media center at Greenwood or McKinley Schools.
- To encourage the widest use of all books, resources, and services by students and staff
- To teach appropriate media competencies through the use of various methods and techniques enabling students to become proficient and discriminating users of print and non-print materials
- To evaluate resources and programs in order to continue to serve patrons effectively
- To encourage students to develop a love of reading by exposing them to a variety of children’s books and literature that reflect their interest, culture, and reading levels