The Library Learning Commons (LLC) is an active participant in the educational community.
Within the Library Learning Commons where the goal is increased student success, the LLC is a key instructional specialist who promotes reading, inquiry, and the effective use of resources.
The LLC is an expert at balancing: Learning Design, Collaboration, Multiple Literacies, Technology, Integration Management, Time, Facilities, Resources, and Tools
1. Have an impact on teaching and learning in the school
2. Be the hub of the school, centrally located, and open for class bookings
3. Enrich learning by providing expertise in collaboratively designing and assessing learning and in promoting the love of reading
4. Work with teachers to co-design learning based on inquiry and to provide the contexts for creating new, original, and inspired content
5. Provide balanced, rich, diverse, current, and professionally curated collections of print and digital resources that support multiple literacies and the BC curriculum
6. Support students and teachers as they integrate technology with teaching and learning and as they increasingly access information with a 24/7 Virtual Learning Commons
7. Support goals for learning that are based on current research, unique needs, and well-designed, purposeful, and powerful intentions
8. Provide a learning environment that is welcoming, safe, and engaging; where the old sense of “hush” has been replaced by a new “hub” role and a constant “hum” of activity