Timothy Edwards Middle School

Excerpted from Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs by the Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library Association, copyright 2009 American Library Association.
The mission of the school library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.  The school library media specialist (SLMS) empowers students to be:

• critical thinkers, 
• enthusiastic readers,
• skillful researchers, and
• ethical users of information.