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LRC Philosophy

The Naperville District #203 K-12 Library Media Program is an integral part of the education process. Our mission is to provide excellent resources, programs and services to our educational community in order to graduate students who are effective users of ideas and information in their pursuit of lifelong learning.

Some of the goals included within this mission statement are:

The LRC will be integrated into the curriculum and central to the teaching process.The LRC will provide a comfortable, inviting, and efficient facility that serves as the current information center for integrated, interdisciplinary, intra-grade and school wide activities. The LRC will promote literacy and the enjoyment of reading, viewing and listening by providing resources and experiences that contribute to lifelong learning.

M.O.S.T.
Math Objectives Skill Time

M.O.S.T. is a program for volunteers to help all students become more proficient in using and applying fundamental math skills by prescribing engaging one-on-one or small group activities. M.O.S.T. is for all types of students. Students struggling with some basic concepts, possibly students new to the school district and need to be "caught up" in areas, students having a strong understanding of basic concepts and could benefit from extensions, are types of students who could use the MOST of this time.

F.L.I.P.
Fluent, Literate, and Independent at Prairie

FLUENT: Children need to read, read and read again from the same text.
LITERATE: Rereading helps the child become more fluent, therefore more literate.
INDEPENDENT: Fluency and Literacy growth leads the way to independent readers.

Volunteers help children become the best independent readers they can be by signing up for a time when a child can read to them in the LRC. The children come to the LRC for a 1-1 reading session with volunteers.

Volunteers

Volunteers are the backbone of the LRC. It is because of all the wonderful parent volunteers that we are able to sponsor programs like M.O.S.T., F.L.I.P., computer stations and group checkout. When parents volunteer they may find themselves working with children during activity times or performing LRC tasks such as checking in books or shelving them. Every year in September, all the parents are invited to attend a tea in the LRC where they learn what it means to be a LRC volunteer. There is a Home and School committee assigned just to serve as a liaison between parent volunteers and the LRC staff.

Computers

Our LRC contains a lab of 30 IBM compatible HP Personal Computers. Each computer is networked. The lab computers are part of a LAN (local area network) as well as a WAN (wide area network). Classes have a regular scheduled time each week to come down and work in the lab. With the help of LRC Staff, Classroom Teachers, and Parent Volunteers, the students work on word processing, math and reading games, research work on the Internet. Only curriculum-related material can be accessed through the Internet. All of this is also accessible from classroom computers, 4th and 5th grade wireless laptops, as well as the flex lab located in the library.