Mattoon Community Unit School District 2

​Mission Statement-Media Center

The mission of the Arland D. Williams, Jr. Elementary School Media Center is to support, widen, and enhance the academic curriculum while offering all its patrons materials to meet their educational and pleasure reading needs in both print and nonprint formats

Library Media Skills: Understandings and Essential Questions

1. Understanding: The ability to access and use information is the basis for lifelong learning.

Essential Questions:

Why do we need to be a life-long learner?

How do we access information?

For what purposes do we use information?

2. Understanding: Information comes in a variety of sources, formats, and organizational patterns.

Essential Questions:

How are libraries organized?

How is information organized?

Why use a variety of formats and sources?

3. Understanding: Problem solving requires locating, evaluating, organizing and presenting information.

Essential Questions:

What is reliable information?

How can we best organize and present this information?

4. Understanding: Literature can be used for information and enjoyment.

Essential Questions:

How does literature reflect, examine and influence human experience?

5. Understanding: Information must be used in an ethical manner.

Essential Questions:

Why are there ethical considerations in using information?

Williams Elementary Library is a teaching library.  All students  receive training and skills to enable them to be good users of the library and to be successful when they enter middle school.  Listed here are some of the skills we will be covering.

Kindergarten

• Introduce students to the Library Media Center, the staff, LMC procedures and guidelines.
• Reinforce classroom learning.
• Introduce the Monarch Award Books

Grades 1-3

• Review LMC procedures and guidelines.
• Teach library and information skills.
• Introduce students to different genres.
• Introduce 3rd grade students to our online catalog.
• Introduce the Monarch Award Books

Grades 4-5

• Review LMC procedures and guidelines.
• Continue instruction of library and information skills.
• Complete projects using print and online sources.
• Introduce Bluestem Award books
• Promote the Battle of the Books

2018-2019 Library Schedule

Help your child remember their library books.

Arland Williams Jr. Elementary School students and staff enjoy having access to our online library catalog, powered by software called Destiny. Destiny is accessible from any computer that connects to the Internet by clicking on the following link:. http://mattoon.follettdestiny.com Fourth and fifth grade students learn about the system and are assigned a username and password so they can look at their library record and place their own holds. Students enjoy seeing photos of the books, placing holds, and rating books for their fellow students.

Did you know that Williams has eBooks that your children can read online through Destiny Follett Shelf or download to your own device: tablet, phone, etc.  Students in grades fourth and fifth have been instructed on how to access these books from the Destiny site

https://mattoon.follettdestiny.com/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do?l2m=Home&tm=Home&l2m=Home

Easy steps to follow:

1. Go to Destiny

2. Make sure you are on the Williams page

3. Scroll to the middle of the Home Page to eBooks and click on the link

4. Or, Click on the Catalog tab at the top of the Destiny home page

5. Click on the Follett Shelf button located on the left side of the screen

6. Students must use the same username and password that they use to place Holds on books to get into the eBook site.

7. Choose a book and click on it to Open

8. Read

9. Close or check out

    

   If you want to enjoy eBooks with your students in grades kindergarten-third call, e-mail, or visit the library to get a Username and Password for your student.  We would be happy to get you started.

We are now using Accelerated Reader Enterprise which means it is hosted on the Internet. Students take quizzes at school under staff supervision to encourage reading for comprehension and understanding.  Enterprise gives our students access to every AR quiz available in both written and audio formats.  The link below will connect you to AR Book Finder, a site that will allow you and students to discover whether or not there is a quiz for a particular book.  This site is available 24/7 to anyone.

http://www.arbookfind.com/ 

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS:

World Book Kids

**You will have to enter the username and password for Williams School.

Ask your librarian for these.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS

World Book Students

**You will have to enter the username and password for Williams School.

Ask your librarian for these.