Library and Media Services

Julie Horwat

Library Media Specialist
jhorwat@hpschools.org
315.865.7248

Karen Szablewski

Library Media Specialist
kszablewski@hpschools.org
315.865.8154

Welcome to the Holland Patent Library and Media Website.

There are 4 libraries within the Holland Patent School District. Every library is equipped with Internet access for your research and reading needs. Visit your school library for help with your research projects, to find interesting books to read, and learn to use new media tools.

Library Home Pages

Mission

The mission of the Holland Patent Middle School & High School Library Media Centers (LMCs) is to support the education of the entire school community by providing access to information in an environment conducive to independent and collaborative learning.

The LMC provides resources, space, and tools to enhance learning and instruction.
By way of collaborative efforts, the Library Media Specialist (LMS) will facilitate interdisciplinary connections between relevant and useful information resources and opportunities to enhance classroom learning.
The LMS will provide instruction and guidance in 21^st Century Skills The LMC provides free and equal access to materials that promote personal and aesthetic growth as well as high-quality information.
The LMS will provide guidance and instruction in building literacy skills necessary to continue lifelong learning.
The LMC facilitates connections between a community of learners, teachers, and information that reaches and receives from beyond the walls of HPCS.
The LMS will be a consultant, teacher, and advocate for responsible use of information and sharing with a broad audience.
The LMC will provide services that are inclusive of students with all abilities.

Library Links

A library's role is "less about housing tomes and

more about connecting learners and constructing knowledge."

--Beth Holland
from "21st-Century Libraries: Learning Commons" (2015)