Glendale Unified School District

High School Library/Media Centers

With a vision toward the future and a commitment to excellence, Glendale Unified School District provides quality teaching, ensuring that all students become responsible citizens who possess the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in an ever-changing world.

Mission Statement: Glendale Unified School District

Core Organizational Values of the Glendale Unified School District

• Excellence in teaching
• Life-long learning for all
• A safe, nurturing environment
• Responsibility and accountability for students, parents, staff and community
• Relationships based on respect, trust, integrity and service
• The principles that enable the people of our country to respect differences and share common beliefs

The Glendale Unified School District Library/Media Center Plan

The Glendale Unified School District Library/Media Center Mission

The High School Library/Media Centers of Glendale

Using the High School Library/Media Center

Multicultural Resources

Professional Library Association Resources

Glendale Unified School District Web Site

The impact of the school library on reading proficiency and overall academic achievement has been confirmed by a variety of studies at both the elementary and secondary level. In spite of their importance, school libraries at each of the education levels, have often been underrepresented when identifying goals and setting priorities. While commencing to plan for the year 2005, the Glendale Unified School District identified a need to highlight Library/Media Centers which had been underemphasized in a prior phase of planning. Believing that Library/Media Centers greatly enhance the quality of education, the District's administration and board of Education deemed Library/Media Centers so important as to require a separate project focused solely on addressing the future direction for school site Library/Media centers and the District's role in supporting them.

On November 4, 1997, the Board of Education authorized the development of a library master plan. As a key strategy to support teaching and learning in Glendale Unified School District schools, the District is to develop and implement a library master plan that identified both standards and targets that are specific to Library/Media centers.

The mission of the high school Library/Media Centers is to:

• Bring people and information together.
• Help students to become effective users of information resources.
• Assist teachers in their mission to guide student learning.
• Provide information sources which support the needs of high school learning communities.

School library media specialists are an integral part of the total educational team which prepares students to become responsible citizens in a changing global society. In today's information age, an individual's success, even existence, depends largely on the ability to access, evaluate and utilize information. Library media specialists are leaders in carrying out the school's instructional program through their separate but overlapping roles of information specialist, teacher and instructional consultant.

Position statement: The American Association of School Librarians

Glendale Unified School District
223 North Jackson Street
Glendale, California 91206
http://www.glendale.k12.ca.us/start.htm