The Library Role: The new guidelines for Grade 9 clearly call for library time and the teaching of research skills.  The following chart is designed to show some of these areas in the guidelines and profiles.  Near the end of this document is a list of the library "agenda" – those skills which we believe should be mastered by each high school student.  We can teach and track library/research skills as they are used in the new guidelines and accomplish several goals:
    • fulfill the mandate of the guidelines in teaching students how to access, assess, process and present research materials
    • ensure our students are information literate and ready for the world of work and/or education beyond high school
    • track the progress of our students in terms of research and information skills and thereby, be accountable to the parents of our students
    • provide our students with up to date information.  Our new textbooks will become dated very quickly and each library offers materials which will bridge the gap between text information and today's information
    • each library has the "print, non-print, CD and Internet" resources dictated in each guideline.  We have the information about "Canadian contributions" in each field as well as Career information.
    • Our libraries are also the places which co-ordinates school essay and research paper formats: bibliography, endnotes, format for citations, etc.
    • We are also people who can teach students how to assess information: is it correct? Current? Biased? Complete?   Students especially need to know how to assess Internet resources
    • Our libraries have created a unified Library home page containing links necessary for projects suggested in the new guidelines and profiles.  This page will be constantly updated. www.onlink.net/~library/