NAME:
Cindy DeRosier Media Specialist
SCHOOL:
Cannon Falls Middle/High School
SCHOOL PHONE:
507-263-6800 EXT 3307
I have B.S. Degree from the University of Wisconsin Stout in Home Economics
Education and a Masters Degree in Library Media Science from Minnesota State
University Mankato.
I love to garden and spend most of my free time reading Young Adult
Literature that I have in the Library or plan to put in the Library.
The mission of the library media technology program in the Cannon Falls
School District is to support the curriculum.
The purpose of the library media program is to ensure that students and staff
are effective users of ideas and information.
This is in conjunction with the District Mission Policy, which states:
"The mission of ISD #252 is to ensure access to a comprehensive
educational program in a positive and orderly school environment conducive to
teaching and learning wherein students are challenged to reach their highest
intellectual potential. Learning opportunities will emphasize critical
thinking skills, communication skills, creative problem solving skills , and
citizenship skills necessary for life-long learning processes and for leading
productive, fulfilling lives in a complex, changing society."
Specific objectives of the media program are:
1. To provide intellectual access to information.
2. To provide physical access to information through a carefully selected and
systematically organized collection of diversified materials.
3. To provde learning experiences that encourages users to become
discriminating consumers and skilled creators of information.
4. To provide leadership, instruction, and consulting assistance in the use
of instructional and information technology.
5. To provide resources and activitites that contribute to lifelong learning.
6. To provide a facility that functions as the information center of the
school.
7. To provide resources and learning activities that support a diversity of
experiences, opinions, cultural and intellectual information.
