Section 1

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Who We Are and What We Believe

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The Media Center
Note: While its official title is the Bullitt Central Library/Media Center, in the interest of reducing repetition, the facility is referred to throughout this document by its official title, as the library, and as the media center.

Description
The Bullitt Central Library/Media Center is an up-to-date, attractive facility located in the center of the school building. Appropriately, every hall in the building leads to the library, like the hub holding the spokes of a wheel together. (For a floor plan of the library, see Appendix B.) The library is also the hub of one of the largest LANs in the state's educational system, linking together some 267 stations, with every classroom having at least two units. There is also a lab that have more than thirty stations connected to the LAN. In addition to the LAN, the building has 50 stand-alone computers, bringing the student/computer ratio to about 6/1. There are seventeen computers in the library, besides the one dedicated to circulation and three in the offices. All work stations in the library have Internet access. The library is fully automated, both circulation system and catalog, and a collection of CD-ROM products is rapidly growing. Through a closed circuit television network provided by the producers of Channel One, the media center is also able to reach out to the school through broadcasts directed to individual classrooms, clusters of classrooms, or the entire building. Daily broadcasts include Channel One and a ten-minute production of the mass communications class, BCMR-TV : The Morning Report. The media center also has access to a wide variety of public and private broadcast networks, whose productions can be piped to classrooms in actual air time or taped for later telecast.

Goals and Objectives
        Goals are numbered with the objectives necessary to reaching each goal bulleted beneath it.

1. To ensure the availability of the newest and most appropriate technology, both hardware and software, is available.
   
   • establish a means and habit of regular communication with the district and building technology coordinators
     
   • maintain a frequent presence at meetings of the technology committee
     
   • remain current on technological trends in industry, particularly publishing
     
2. To ensure that all students have the opportunity for training in the use of all available technology.
   
   • be familiar with all software licensed in the building
     
   • provide workstations in the library/media center that will allow for training/assisting students working with software concurrent with the regular operations of the facility
     
   • offer professional development to the staff in the use of available software
     
   • consult with the faculty to encourage the integration of available software into the curriculum
     
   • maintain a web site on the WWW
     
3. To ensure that all graduates have a basic knowledge of the tools and methods of information storage, retrieval, and dissemination.
   
   • consult with faculty to develop information gathering projects across as broad a range of curriculum as possible
     
   • ensure that as many storage formats as are economically feasible are available
     
   • include at least one searchable database in the library's electronic collection
     
   • encourage the searching of remote OPACs via the Internet
     
   • as far as is possible, adhere to standard practices in cataloging materials in the local collection
     
4. To promote life-long literacy.
   
   • maintain a fiction collection that is up-to-date and appealing to the users, and covers the full range of reading abilities present in the user population
     
   • maintain a non-fiction collection that closely meets the needs of users
     
   • prominently display new titles when they arrive through bulletin boards and other displays
     
   • encourage reading through book talks and student-centered projects (book reviews, discussion groups, publishing on the WWW)
     
5. To promote life-long learning.
   
   • provide a collection of materials that offer useful information not directly related to the curriculum
     
   • maintain a collection of materials related to career choice and development
     
6. To foster a perception of the library as a helpful and welcoming institution in the community.
   
   • as far as possible, ensure that the facility is available to students at all times of the school day, as well as before and after school
     
   • utilize the space as an exhibition area for student work, particularly art work
     
   • maintain student assistance as the top priority to as great an extent as possible
     
   • proactively seek to aid students in information gathering
     
7. To position the library as central to the process of learning at Bullitt Central High School.
   
   • create opportunities to consult with faculty members to design projects in which the facilities of the library/media center and the information specialist's skills are necessary
     
   • involve the faculty to as great an extent as possible in material selection
     
   • ensure the administration's awareness of the goals, objectives, and programs of the library/media center through regular reporting
     
   • ensure the faculty is aware of the goals, objectives, and programs of the library/media center through newsletters, faculty reports, etc.
     
   • acquaint the community with the goals, objectives, and programs of the library/media center through available publication opportunities
     
   • develop an active ILL program