The mission of the Southwest Region Schools Media Services program is to ensure that all students and staff in the district have access to and are effective, independent users of ideas and information that support the curriculum and personal, lifelong learning interests.

Goals 

1.Create a technology-based information retrieval system with access to district-wide multi-media resources; district and state-wide online library catalogs; periodical databases; and other research tools.
2.Create a multi-media collection of educational materials that supports all areas of the district curriculum.
3.Create an instructional program for information literacy skills in which learners will demonstrate the ability to use technology to:

• Select, retrieve, review, evaluate, manipulate, and create information for an identified information need
• Apply study, research, reference, and critical thinking skills to organize information

1. Assess student/staff information needs and order materials to meet those needs.
2. Implement the Media Minder catalog, circulation and booking system:

• Upgrade to the Windows 95 version.
• Catalog multi-media materials added to the Media Center collection.
• Provide training in the use of Media Minder and the on-line catalog/ordering program to access/order Media Center resources.

• Implement the Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.
• Train students/staff in the use of District Internet/On-line resources.
• Train students/staff in the use of EBSCO and Electric Library.
• Add curriculum links to the Media Services Web pages.
• Update the on-line catalog at least once during the school year.