Library Services
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AASL National School Library Program of the Year! |
AASL’s 2011 National School Library Program of the Year
Click here to read the HCPS News Release
Our mission is to empower students and staff to become critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
Open and Flexible Access
The Henrico school libraries operate on an open and flexible access schedule. Students may come to the library at any time, individually, in small groups, or with their entire class.
Library Program
Instruction comes from the library and the classroom teacher co-planning to create lessons that incorporate the national library learning standards, AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner, with the Henrico Essentials of the Curriculum and the Virginia Standards of Learning. The library program goals are grounded in the guidelines from Empowering Learners which focus on moving the library to an environment with fluid boundaries, layered by diverse student needs, and influenced by an interactive global community. The Henrico school library program is based on the principles found in these standards and guidelines. Henrico librarians are dedicated to create learners for life by developing student dispositions, responsibilities, skills, and self-assessment strategies.
All Henrico Reads author this year is Garth Stein
Garth Stein will be at Glen Allen High School April 5, 2012 at 7pm. The evening session is free and open to all community members, including middle and high school students. Henrico County Public Schools is joining with Henrico County Public Libraries, The Friends of Henrico County Public Libraries, and Henrico Education Foundation on the One-Community-One-Book project.
Once again we are excited that the entire community will be engaged with reading a book by the same author. Visit the Henrico County Public Library website |
The school selection is Racing in the Rain which is a young adult version of the community selection The Art of Racing in the Rain. 
Resources
As a complement to our on-site print collections and eBooks, Library Services subscribes to online resources to support staff and student research. Links to these resources can be accessed via School Library Resources.
School Library Essentials of the Curriculum are used as a guide in the library program to insure that learners use skills, resources, and tools to:
- Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge
- Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations and create new knowledge
- Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society
- Pursue personal and aesthetic growth
Ann M. Martin, Educational Specialist
804-652-3700
ammartin@henrico.k12.va.us
