• instilling integrity and virtue
• stimulating critical and creative thinking
• developing effective communicators and problem solvers
• fostering life long learning

Dutch Fork Elementary School Library Media Center--
The purpose of the Dutch Fork Elementary School Library Media Center program is to "ensure that students...are effective users of ideas and information" (Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning, 1998). The DFES Library Media program accomplishes this by implementing educational programs that enrich and support students and staff at DFES. It is the duty of the library staff to provide the school community with a wide range of materials on appropriate levels of difficulty. The library media center program will provide materials and services that will encourage growth in knowledge, foster information literacy, and that will encourage a love of reading. These materials and services will also help to develop literary, cultural and aesthetic appreciation of the arts and sciences. The library strives to stimulate intellectual curiosity and to establish the habit of lifelong learning and continuing education through the proper use of information sources.

The hours of the Dutch Fork Elementary School Library Media Center are 7:10am-3:30pm everyday during the school year. The library media center is closed over the Summer.

Valerie Byrd Fort, Library Media Specialist

Ann Newman, Library Media Assistant

Erika Cartledge, Literacy Coach (office located in LMC)

Nic Finelli, InTech Specialist (office located in LMC)

Ken Fuhr, School Vounteer (office located in LMC)

We love our volunteers! Parent volunteers help us with birthday book lunches, bookfair, as well as many other things! We couldn't do without our volunteers. If you're interested in helping out, please contact Mrs. Byrd Fort or the PTO volunteer coordinator.