K-12 Library Program Framework (Richmond Schools)

Elements of the “Library Program” via a Framework of competencies and skills.

The library program in Richmond School District is built on Teacher-Librarians interacting with their
students, staff and library collection. The mission of the Richmond School District Teacher-Librarians
is to ensure that all students and staff interact easily and competently with ideas and information.
“This mission is accomplished by
• Providing intellectual and physical access to material in all formats;
• Providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading,
viewing and using information and ideas;
• Working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of
individual students.”
(Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning (1998)

STUDENTS:
(i.e. via topics, themes, skills) STAFF: COLLECTION:
(Partners in learning) (Managing the resources)
Resource Awareness:
• Reference sources Areas of focus Acquisition/Selection:
• Media resources • Collaboration • Selection: non-fiction
• Community resources • Communication (grade appropriate curricular
• Primary source documents • Curricular Support material: IRPs, PLOs)
• Digital resources • Technology and learning • Selection: - fiction
• Research frameworks (range of age, reading and
(request, Big 6, etc.) Working together: interest levels)
• Notetaking • Teacher/TL collaboration and • Selection: on-line sources
• Searching skills co-teaching (reliability, appropriateness)
• Project design
Ethics: (i.e. critical question) De-Selection:
• Plagiarism, copyright, authority • Rubric development and • Weeding (dated, misleading,
• Bibliography, citing assessment damaged, superseded, etc.)
• Internet awareness, safety
Roles: Cultural Awareness:
Literacy: • Resource specialist • Canadian content, authors
• Content literacy, media literacy • Find Instructional material • Aboriginal resources
Format literacy • In-servicing staff • Multicultural
• Reader’s advisory (i.e. reading strategies, • (award winners)
• Database navigation (Gale, searching, “expert-on-call”)
EBSCO, etc) Promotion of new and topical
Options (for implementing the Framework): i.e. Scope and resources and materials.
Sequence, unit of study, Grade benchmarks, etc.