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About The Teacher
I have been involved with education for many years. In between all of those many years I have also had a variety of other jobs which included working for the post office and as a substitute teacher. It was my postmaster who actually gave me the idea of becoming a school library media specialist. Going to graduate school had always been a dream. I attended the School of Library and Information Sciences at the University at Buffalo. It took three years to complete my degree but it was well worth it. I love being a school library media specialist. On the personal side,I am the oldest of 6 children, having been born on Father's Day! I am married, have three children: Ron, Alex and Madeline. I enjoy scrapbooking, photography, stamping,landscape gardening and of course reading books of all types. My favorite number is 13, which if reversed is 31. My daughter was born on Halloween! I love chocolate and rock and roll music! email @ kmacchioni@salamancany.org

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Mission
"Empowering Young Minds to be Effective Users of Information." My role as a school librarian is to teach students how to access information in the library itself and on the Internet. Once we find the information we need to learn how to evaluate it and use it successfully. It is important that students get into the habit of evaluating material to check for quality and that it is accurate and reliable information. Did you know anyone can be an author on the World Wide Web? I also promote reading. While I admit I do not read as often as I would like, I do enjoy reading immensely. I have always enjoyed reading young adult literature, so my job as a middle school librarian works out extremely well. Finally, students will be learning a variety of computer skills that partner well with library literacy. As technology continues to move forward, these skills will be most useful as students continue their education. I am also able to collaborate one-to-one with teachers to help support the school curricululm. It is much more fun and meaningful if I can teach library skills with what the students are learning compared to teaching the skills separately.