Media Center

williamsMs. Marilyn Williams

Librarian

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Phone: 909.971.8230 x3091

Hours: 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM

 

deloscabosMs. Lesley de los Cobos

Library Media Center Specialist

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Phone: 909.971.8230 x3091

Hours: 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Mission Statement

The San Dimas High School Library Media Center strives to be an integral part of the school's total instructional program. The library media center is designed to provide comprehensive support, instruction and materials to all students and faculty. Our mission is to make students independent and effective users of information.

Primary Focus

The library media center strives to meet the needs of the school community. It offers its community an extended day, a place for meetings, and scheduled activities throughout the year. Services offered to the school clientele include training, workshops, a voice in collection development and weeding, and a voice in periodical selection. As a result, the collection reflects the school community and the curriculum. Lesson plans are developed in collaboration with teachers to address the library curriculum within the realm of the classroom curriculum and standards based instruction. Currently the library program provides access to technology through thirty-six Internet connected computers within the library media center. The school employs a professional staff that understands their role as part of a team. All of these together build a strong library media program at San Dimas High School.

Although the existing program remains strong, the ever changing dimensions of information and technology, California Standards Based Educational philosophy as well as California’s financial climate place additional pressures on San Dimas high school’s library media center. Two areas of focus that will be addressed this year are: Program Connection, and Curriculum Connection.

Position Statement

A high school reading program is an integral component of an effective and comprehensive K-12 curriculum. The Accelerated Reader reading program represents the necessary continuation of developmental reading instruction for all students. Major goals of San Dimas high school’s reading program focus on developing students who:

  1. Are able to use reading as a primary method of learning.
  2. Are able to perform at a proficient or above level on standardized tests because of their reading instruction.
  3. Are able to learn from increasingly complex content area reading materials.
  4. Are prepared for reading demands beyond high school and in a future workplace.
  5. Acquire the habit of reading for enjoyment as a life-long pursuit.

Reading is essential to learning in all high school subjects. High school teachers provide instruction in and modeling of effective strategies that will help students become active, purposeful, and increasingly independent learners.

  1. San Dimas high school’s reading program should focus on curricular integration of reading instruction into content area courses in order to meet the reading needs of all high school students.
  2. San Dimas high school’s reading program should be based on the recognition among staff, and parents that high school students continue to have needs in reading, especially in reading to learn.
  3. San Dimas high school’s reading program should regard reading as a developmental process. Reading instruction across the curriculum should recognize the individual abilities, needs, and learning styles of all students, including gifted, ELD, SDC and ESL students.
  4. San Dimas high school’s program should be designed to prepare students for a variety of literacy demands, including the reading of both expository and narrative texts, the reading of technical materials, the reading of information presented in visual displays such as charts and graphs, and reading and learning through interactions with technology.
  5. San Dimas high school’s reading program should be implemented with involvement of high school teachers, administrators, reading personnel, TAB, and parents through School Site Council.
  6. San Dimas high school’s reading program should foster collaborative relationships among content teachers, library media teachers, reading specialists, support staff, administrators, students, and parents.

Program Connection

The San Dimas High School Library Media program is an integrated support system through which all students can become lifelong learners through reading, technology, and information literacy. The school mission clearly states that the school “will provide every member of its community with the opportunity to develop to his/her potential”. To fulfill this part of the mission, the school library media program will include the goal to continually build the library program in relation to the needs of the school community.

Curriculum Connection

Integrating California State Educational Standards into all student’s library media center’s orientation process supports the library media center’s mission statement—ensuring that students have access to current, adequate, and appropriate information resources, and ensuring that all students, teachers, and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The integration further allows the library media center to be part of the core curriculum reinforcing the school mission’s emphasis on providing a strong core curriculum.