What is the Media Committee?
IFAA board policy requires that each school have a media committee that is composed of an administrator, media specialist and representatives for teachers, students, and the community. As an integral component of a quality media program that supports teaching and learning, the school media committee:
- Complies with established system policies and procedures
- Establishes a media program short and long term goals based on local school plans for improvement
- Provides input on school media program policies and procedures
- Recommends priorities for the media center budget
- Fosters good public relations by sharing media program activities with school faculty and the community
- Encourages collaborative planning among administration, instructional, and media personnel
- Provides input in the selection of materials for purchase for the media center
- Evaluates the existing collection to ensure media center resources are current and support the curriculum
- Evaluates the acceptability of donated/gift materials
- Establishes and applies a decision making process for discarding materials within system policies
- Reviews proposed purchases of supplementary materials to determine suitability and value of the materials and to insure against unnecessary duplication
- Reviews software for instructional value to be used in school
- Recommends procedures that insure accessibility to media services for all students and teachers
- Responds to formal challenges regarding materials used in the school through established procedures
- Recommends procedures for establishing and maintaining cooperation and communication with other agencies, i.e., public library
- Recommends procedures to insure copyright compliance
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