Media Services

a division of 
FCPS Department of Educational & Administrative Technology

The purpose of Media Services in keeping with the mission of Fayette County Public Schools is to provide people power, guidelines, and know-how to design excellent school library media programs that will help boost student achievement and to provide quality resources for teachers and staff. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


      

 

School Library
Standards and Policies

Local Standards       Kentucky Standards       Regional  Standards       National Standards       Policies for School Library Management

   Local Standards for Library Media Specialists

Fayette County Public Schools Library Media Specialist Evaluation - find downloadable forms for data collection and summative conferencing.  

   Kentucky Standards for Library Media Specialists

Beyond Proficiency:  Achieving a Distinguished Library Media Program - KDE 2001  This document suggest guidelines for high-quality Library Media Programs in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and should be used to guide library media specialist in improving the library programs they administer.  It is intended to inform administrators and school-based decision making councils about high-quality library media program.
Kentucky Benchmarks for the AASL Information Literacy Standards in grades 3, 5, 8, 12 have been developed.
Domain of Knowledge - This document was developed by the Library Media Professional Standards Task Force under the auspices of the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board and the Office of Teacher Education and Certification. The document was surveyed with practicing library media specialists throughout the Commonwealth by the Office of Teacher Education and Certification.
Content Standards for new Library Media Specialist - A Kentucky Department of Education document which was  the result of the new certification standards of KERA. It was developed by a committee of school media educators, LMSs, and Jackie White. 

   Kentucky Standards for Student Learning

Kentucky's Learning Goals and Academic Expectations - The expectations for students are set forth as the six learning goals of KERA. These goals led to the development of the academic expectations that characterize student achievement of the goals. All Kentucky students are expected to achieve the goals and academic expectations
Kentucky Core Content for Assessment - represents the content that has been identified as essential for all students to know and will be included on the state assessment.

   National Standards for Student Learning

The Nine Information Literacy Standards from AASL are a basis for library/classroom collaboration activities. 
Information Power Downloadable PowerPoint presentations  from AASL to assist in introducing the new standards and guidelines.

   Regional Standards for Schools

The Fayette County Board of Education recommends that all schools maintain their accreditation in the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).  Find Library/Media Services in Standard 7 within the Checklist of Standards for Accreditation of Elementary Schools. Find Library Media Services within the Checklist of Standards for Accreditation of Secondary Schools.

   Policies for school library management

Circulation Policies - Suggested guidelines by Carolyn Nichols
Policy Manuals for School Libraries - produced by the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC), you will find helpful information to guide your school district in developing policy manuals. 
FCPS Suggested Collection Development Policy - developed by committee and offered to FCPS LMS for individual school tweaking November 2004

 

 

 

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