Philosophy of the Fairmont High School Media Center

The Fairmont High School Media Center is an educational and materials center. Its function is to locate, gather, provide, and co-ordinate both print and non-print material for learning.  It is also a center for housing and disseminating equipment required for the use of all types of materials.

The Fairmont High School Media Center is a service agency that provides materials for all subjects and interests of the students and teachers.  Everyone is encouraged to use all the resources at the Media Center.

The Fairmont High School Media Center is a teaching agency.  It suggests  reading of new books and it stimulates new interests.  It helps to teach media skills, such as how to find a book or material and how to use it.  Because there is so much to be educated in today's world of technology, students need to be trained to utilize the Media Center technology such as CD-ROMs, laser disks, and the Internet.  The new technology will help prepare students for a vastly changing technological world of information.

The Fairmont High School Media Center is a reading center.  Various forms of printed materials are provided and it is hoped they will be used.  The Media Center is a place for enjoying and investigating books, magazines, newspapers, bulletins, pictures, maps, and all other news and artistic media.

Media skills instruction is the core of the media program, equating it with any other curricular area essential to the school's overall educational process.

Students seldom remember throughout life all the information they learn in school and often are not able to recall that information later when they need it. It is imperative, therefore, that students develop skills enabling them to locate, assimilate, and apply information to meet their daily needs.  Media skills instruction, which uses a wide variety of resources, will help students become independent users of all types of resources, and hopefully, lifetime library users.