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Katrina G. Figgett
Director of School Libraries and Information Services
325 West Gaines Street, Suite 424
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0400

Phone: (850) 245-0758
Fax: (850) 245-0826

Library Media Services and Instructional Technology

About the Office of Library Media Services and Instructional Technology

The mission of the Office of Library Media Services is to support district library media supervisors and other stakeholders; ensuring that school librarians create and maintain quality library programs that foster the love of reading and the effective use of ideas and information by both students and faculty. This mission is accomplished by building programs that:

provide intellectual and physical access to materials in a variety of formats
provide instruction to advance competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing and using information and ideas
involve other educators in designing learning strategies that meet the needs of individual students

Instructional Support and Resources

ExC³EL - Florida's evaluation tool for K-12 library programs
FINDS - Florida's research process model
READS - Florida's K-12 integrated library media reading guidelines
Sunshine State Young Readers Award Program
Next Generation Sunshine State Standards
CPALMS - NGSSS standards and course descriptions with aligned resources and lesson plans
Digital Resources - Free online resources for creating, collaborating, researching and sharing
ISTE NETS - technology standards for teachers, students and administrators
Edutopia - K-12 education and learning online magazine
AASL Guides and Standards - the best apps and websites, standards for the 21st-Century Learner and common core crosswalk
Just Read Florida! - link to the Just Read Florida reading initiative
Florida Electronic Library - Databases from Gale-Cengage for use by students and staff
Public Library - link to the main page of the State Library and Archives with access to Ask a Librarian and the library catalog
Public Library Youth Services - reading programs and programming ideas compiled by the State Library
Florida Aerial Resource - educational modules for teachers using aerial maps
Memos

Professional Groups

FAME - Florida Association of Media Educators - includes information on Florida Teens Read! and Jim Harbin Student Media Festival programs
FRA - Florida Reading Association - includes information on the Children's Book Award, a program similar to SSYRA for grades K-2
FLA - Florida Library Association
ALA - American Library Association
AASL - American Association of School Librarians

School Library Award Program

Florida Power-Library Schools
Program sponsored by The Florida Association of Supervisors of Media (FASM) and the Florida Department of Education's Library Media Services which recognizes outstanding library media programs in the State of Florida.

Library Science Degrees

A comprehensive listing of universities and colleges that offer degree programs in the field of Library Science can be found at http://librarysciencedegree.org.