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The primary goal of the school library program is to ensure that KLO students become effective users of ideas and information. To achieve this goal of information literacy, the teacher librarian and the subject teacher plan and implement units and assignments that require our students to use a variety of print and non-print materials. The students' activities integrate the skills necessary to locate and evaluate information and then to organize and present it in different ways.

In addition to information literacy and traditional literacy, the ability to read and write remains the other important goal of the LRC program through support for the USSR program and the encouragement of reading for recreation.

By the time they leave KLO, our students will have developed the skills, knowledge and attitudes to both succeed at senior secondary school as well as be informed decision makers and learners throughout their lives.

The key to the KLO LRC program is cooperative planning between teacher and teacher librarian. The subject teacher provides students with opportunities to acquire and practice information literacy skills by planning with the teacher librarian units and assignments which incorporate those skills. Before assignments are given, it is essential that the teacher and the teacher librarian get together to:

? formulate the learning objectives for the unit or assignment, including the information skills that need to be taught or reinforced.

The library will be open before school, during lunch break, and after school for students who wish to complete assignments, read or select novels and magazines, or do other LRC-related work. Students who use the library at these times should be independent and well-behaved library users.