Library Services
Kimberly Guzman-Hernandez
kghernandez@splendoraisd.org
281-689-2108
"The school library provides information and ideas that are fundamental to functioning successfully in today’s information and knowledge-based society. The school library equips students with life-long learning skills and develops the imagination, enabling them to live as responsible citizens.” Resourced from the IFLA at https://www.ifla.org/vision-mission/
The Library Media Specialist not only encourages reading by providing access to a variety of material, but promotes and teaches information literacy skills. With the integration of technology, these skills lead to students becoming effective users and creators of information; skills that are necessary for life-long learning to occur.
“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.” ― Rudine Sims Bishop