Mission

The mission of the Beaufort County School District Media Centers is to ensure students and staff are effective users of ideas and information and to promote activities which encourage life-long reading and learning skills.

Collection

The purpose of the school is the development of responsible and well-informed citizens.  This purpose must be pursued with the understanding that each child is an individual with differing needs and differing potential for achievement.  In this belief, we maintain the following criteria for selection of educational resources that will support and augment the curriculum.

A.                  Provide educational resources that will enrich and support the curriculum; encourage self-directed learning and extend the boundaries to students' knowledge and experience, taking into consideration the varied interests, abilities and maturity levels of the students served.

B.                 Provide educational resources that will stimulate growth in factual knowledge, literary appreciation, aesthetic values, and ethical standards.

C.                 Provide a background of information, which will enable students to make intelligent judgments in their daily life.

D.                 Provide educational resources on opposing sides of controversial issues so those young citizens may develop under guidance the practice of critical reading, thinking, and evaluating resources of communication.

E.                 Provide educational resources representative of the many religious, ethnic, and cultural groups and their contributions to American heritage.

F.                  Place principle above personal opinion and reason above prejudice in the selection of educational resources of the highest quality in order to ensure a comprehensive collection appropriate to the users of the library media center.

The use of these criteria without influence of personal opinion or prejudice results in a comprehensive collection of educational resources of the highest quality which should, under guidance, develop young citizens who, through the practice of critical thinking, can make intelligent judgment in their daily lives.