The Media Center I want to work in:
The media center I want to work has some architectural, and design elements that make it modern and user friendly,and coming up with those ideas was a lot of fun. However, what is more important about a school library media center is it’s operating mode. The media center and it's staffing should be designed to work collaboratively with teachers. We need to educate our students on the very important and extremely relevant topics in information literacy and support classroom instruction all while finding the time to foster a love of reading for pleasure within the heart of everyone on campus.
What the media center should not be is a place for students to go during a teacher’s prep time with a set schedule that leaves no room for flexibility. It shouldn't be a place where lessons and book browsing for pleasure are crammed into one short class period only to see the students hustled out the door to make room for the next batch.
The geography itself should be big and heartily staffed to accommodate multiple classes with different objectives on any given school day. It should be open, inviting, and flexible; ready to meet the needs of a growing student body in a changing world.
Ideally, the entire school would be free of outmoded standardized testing and rigidly mapped curriculum and the library could support a fully functional program of inquiry, using AASL 21st century information literacy standards to help guide the students as they, with the help of the teachers and staff, educate themselves!
The media center should be busy and buzzing, but not frenetic, with areas for study, reading, instruction, storytelling, and viewing or listening to media. Above all, the atmosphere must never feel rushed and the activities that happen there should never ever be an afterthought.
What I am saying is, "Let us do what we do best!"
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