Library Overview

Welcome!

Librarian: Email Mrs. Karen Smith
Library Assistant: Email Mrs. Carla Payne

Welcome to Kenneth W. Culbert Elementary Library!

The library provides a welcoming atmosphere for book selection, research, and pleasure reading.

I am currently serving my twenty-sixth year as a Teacher-Librarian with Loudoun County Public Schools. I have a Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, an endorsement in Library Science from Shepherd University, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from PennWest Edinboro.
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Library Mission

The mission of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. This mission is accomplished:

 - by providing intellectual and physical access to material in all formats
 - by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas, and
- by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the 
     needs of individual students. 

Objectives:

1. To provide intellectual and physical access to information and ideas for a diverse population whose needs are changing rapidly.

2. To ensure equity and freedom of access to information and ideas, unimpeded by social, cultural, economic, geographic, or technologic constraints.
3. To promote literacy and the enjoyment of reading, viewing, and listening for young people at all ages and stages of development.
4. To provide leadership and expertise in the use of information and instructional technologies.
5. To participate in networks that enhance access to resources located outside the school.

American Association for School Librarians and Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago: American Library Association, 1998.

Library Philosophy

The librarian serves as a link between library resources and library users.

Library resources, print and nonprint, as well as resources

beyond the library walls are available to facilitate an integrated and timely approach to learning.

The library offers a pleasant environment for material selection, research and recreational reading.