Librarians can participate in designing assessment products that help define what is learned. Librarians must provide physical access and teach intellectual access to information beyond the walls of a library building. In the Parent Education Campaign of the American Library Association statements are made that the Internet is the most exciting tool for learning since the printing press. School librarians can help parents and children learn to use this technology and make wise choices. That's why it is important that parents teach their children to make wise choices, whether it's about books, movies, TV or the Internet.
Student achievement is very important to the public.
School librarians need to work not only with every teacher but with parents as well to design learning tasks that require deeper understanding, intellectual conversations, shared learning, and connections to the community and world beyond the school. The School Library Media Center can be a place that richly complements student achievement goals, but it must be well endowed with new and current resources, adequate manpower, and decent electronic ramp support. Literature Cited Stripling, Barbara K. 1995.