Library Services
Our Facility and Resources
The William Cullen Bryant High School Library Media Center is a 21st Century Library, offering a variety of resources in print and digital formats. Our facility features:
- Two full time, New York State Certified, School Library Media Specialists.
- A print collection of over 11,000 holdings (Including test prep materials, foreign language books, graphic novels, and professional pedagogical materials);
- An expanding digital collection of 3,000 eBooks available for circulation;
- Subscription online databases for computer research;
- And an onsite computer lab of 32 workstations.
Our Mission
- The School Library Media Specialists will strive to make the William Cullen Bryant High School Library Media Center a welcoming and stimulating learning environment to help our students become lifelong readers and users of libraries;
- The School Library Media Specialists will strive to encourage our students to make independent reading choices, and to experiment with different genres, authors and reading levels.
- The School Library Media Specialists will provide a variety of research and information literacy instruction, including:
- Assisting students with the physical access to materials in print and computer-based formats;
- Demonstrating to students and staff the proper use of computer hardware and software applications;
- Teaching students how to locate reliable sources of information and how to critically evaluate them;
- Assisting students with research papers/projects.
- The School Library Media Specialists will collaborate with classroom teachers in supplying the materials needed to support the curricula of NY State's Next Generation Learning Standards, as well as the guidelines and initiatives from the City of New York.
