Ichabod Crane Central School District

 

About the High School Library!

The High School Library....

Amy Reddy - School Library Media Specialist

Michelle Pullen - Library Aide

Serves approximately 750 students and 75 faculty and staff

  • Contains approximately 16,000 books, including: fiction, non-Fiction, Story Collection (Short Stories), Reference, Biographies, Professional Resources, easy readers (Picture Books), and oversized books

  • Contains approximately 550 audio-Visual Materials

  • Subscribes to 50 magazine

  • Has 13 online database subscriptions available

  • Provides 19 fully-automated computers available to students and faculty with laser and color printers

  • Fully-automated using the Mandarin Library System

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Ichabod Crane Library Media Program Mission Statement:

It is the mission of the Ichabod Crane Library Media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The library media program functions as a critical and central component of the total education program facilitating full integration of the library media program into the curriculum while meeting the needs of individual students. It provides intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats, provides instruction to foster competence and promote reading, curiosity, reasoning and questioning in a comfortable learning environment. Our responsibility to the school community is to work collaboratively with teachers, administrators, and parents to plan, implement, and evaluate the learning experience to ensure that all students become well informed, independent, self-motivated, lifelong learners.