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As an institution, the library belongs to the community as a whole and also to the individuals who use its services and to the staff who provides those services. Indeed, it is your library:
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Gleniece Robinson |
When the Texas Library Association convenes in Houston, it will celebrate these essential functions of your library : Teaching, Learning, and Advancing. At a time when electronic access to seemingly unlimited data can be seductive, intimidating, misleading, and frequently disappointing, your library offers "value added" information; resources + people. At your library, the flea market of information is transformed into a smorgasbord of resources.
Teaching: Librarians, working hand-in-hand with educators, teach individuals of all ages. Your library provides enrichment materials and teaches library users to manipulate information resources.
While promoting traditional and emerging literacies, your library creates a comfortable, stimulating environment where an individual's own curiosity is the only limit to learning.
Learning:
The resources at your library make learning available to everyone.
Regardless of
an individual's economic means, there are riches to enjoy and treasures to discover.
your library is a democratic institution that allows
every mind equal access to knowledge
and equal opportunity for educational advancement.
Advancing: Users come to your library looking for answers, and your library's objective is to help locate the needed information. In providing that access, your library helps individuals and communities move closer to their goals.
In an age of hyperlinks, your library provides a missing link: it is the human moment, that all-important time when eyes meet and the process of Teaching, Learning, and Advancing begins anew. This year's conference theme reaffirms the primacy of that human moment in your library, a place where librarians and library users teach, learn, and advance together.
