The Library

The Library is the heart of the school. It provides every student with a relatively quiet place to work on homework, talk, or play card games. Without the resources the library offers, both in print and online, our schools would not work. Libraries need to be kept up to date, and need to have resources that help with three things. 1. It should give students places where they can learn things they want to learn or read things they want to read. 2. It should have the materials that high schoolers need to learn in order to be good citizens and knowledgeable in areas that are required in today's complex society. And 3. They need to have the books and Internet resources that students need to complete their projects for school. These three guidelines give a rubric to what libraries should carry to produce real learners, because some of the most important skills in life, knowing how to research on-line and knowing how to use a library, are among many other skills, only learned in the library through its resources.