Seattle Public Schools Library Services
About SPS Library Services
Library Services strives to promote the exploration of ideas, the power of information and the love of reading and learning.
- Provide students and staff seamless access to the information resources they need, when and where they need them.
- Build strong libraries in every school that foster life long readers and effective users of information
Goals
We provide the following services:
- Maintain software and technical systems support for school libraries, district library resources and textbook management
- Coordinate professional development for librarians on librarianship and technical systems
- Provide discovery and access to books, media, and electronic resources through online catalog and databases
- Provide support to libraries for organization of library spaces
- Provide consultation on new and remodeled library design
- Coordinate district standards for cataloging and processing of library materials
- Protect district assets by maintaining a database of books and other library materials
- Maintain and support district internet filter
- Maintain and support access to online database resources
- Provide access to professional and curriculum support materials for district staff through the Professional Library
- Work with schools to track, reallocate and purchase instructional materials
Current Initiatives
- Library Link - connecting students with ebooks and online resources at Seattle Public Library
- Textbook Manager
- Global Reading Challenge