Library
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UN: Lname.Fname
PW: Your personal password or Somersxxxx
(Capital S and your personal code in place of the x)
Sora site digital collection of SMS and Westchester Public Library.
Go to CLEVER and select SORA or Soraapp.com
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Digital books from the Westchester Library System.
When burrowing a book select Somers Central School District.
Academic Integrity at SMS
Library Hours
Monday through Friday:
8:24 am - 3:05 pm
Library Homework Club
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
3:05 - 4:00 pm
(when the late bus runs)
Staff
Ms. O'Connor
Library Media Specialist
Ms. Dirmeikis
Library Assistant
MYP Support from the Library Media Specialist
Information Literacy
- Formulating and Planning: Explain deep research questions, creating action plans, and identify appropriate tools.
- Gathering and Recording: Identify a system for note taking and recording data, analyze the value of information from a variety of sources (primary/secondary).
- Synthesizing and Interpreting: Identify and explain similarities and differences, process sources and data to share findings, and to analyze and interpret media connections.
- Evaluating and Communication: Collaborate about patterns and relationships within data and report the results. Compare and contrast connections among multiple forms of media. Select appropriate formats and platforms to share results.
Media Literacy
- Consuming and Processing: Locate, analyze, and ethically use information from multiple forms of media. Use critical thinking skills to assess value and limitations of information. Make informed choices about viewing experiences.
- Considering Online Perspectives: Describe media interpretations of events and ideas. Seek a range of perspectives from multiple forms of media.
- Creating: Communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media formats.
Ethical Use
- Ethical Use: Correctly cite sources using MLA and respect intellectual property rights.
- Reliability of Sources: Be aware of bias and identify and express the value and limitations through the origin and purpose of the media, as well as construct.
Library Media
The Somers Middle School Media Center is a learning space where students work with our library media specialist to expand their capacity to learn. Through the examination of their classroom curriculum, students expand their ability to develop probing questions, identify and evaluate resources, and represent new knowledge in innovative ways.
Mission Statement
The Somers Middle School Library Media Center will ignite a passion by engaging all students at a personal level to be life-long learners and productive global citizens that actively seek information. Through instruction of information literacy and research, students will be critical thinkers, analyzers, assessors, and evaluators of literature and information in a variety of formats.