<div dir="ltr">Hi Lori, here's what I use in my library handbook:<div><br></div><div>"<b style="font-weight:normal" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4456d9df-b8fb-303b-9696-cb9092d689ac"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Library strives to help students become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, discerning researchers, and ethical consumers and creators of information. With this goal in mind, the Library provides access to resources that are beneficial to students and faculty to promote intellectual, professional, and personal growth. Library materials are to support curriculum across disciplines and to promote a culture of reading and intellectual growth for all students, and also support faculty in their teaching."</span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Feel free to use or adapt as you see fit!

Katie Pausch</span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grant Community High School</span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div><b style="font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></b></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi, <div><br></div><div>I am new to this high school library this year. I am having trouble defining it. I'd like to ask high school librarians for their vision and reality for their libraries. I have no support staff and an "open" period each day, where it is decidedly NOT academic enough to my liking. </div><div><br></div><div>Any input is helpful.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you, </div><div>Lori McGreal</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lori.mcgreal@gmail.com" target="_blank">lori.mcgreal@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>

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