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The Rome Free Academy Library Media Center (LMC) is a student-centered resource available to all students.  Its mission is to encourage a passion for reading and to ensure that ALL students graduate with the 21st century information literacy skills necessary to be successful, productive, and socially responsible individuals ready to take on the challenges of college and career.

Goals:

1. To provide intellectual access to information through learning activities which are integrated into the curriculum, and which support the National School Library Standards and the Empire State Fluency Continuum.
2. To help all learners achieve information literacy by developing effective cognitive strategies for selecting, retrieving, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, creating, and communicating information ethically - in all formats and in all content areas of the curriculum.
3. To provide physical access to information through:
   1. Carefully selected and systematically organized local collections of diverse learning resources that present a wide range of subjects, levels of difficulty, and formats.
   2. Systematic procedures for acquiring information and materials from outside the Library Media Center and the school through such mechanisms as electronic networks, interlibrary loans, and cooperative agreements with other agencies.
   3. Instruction in using a range of devices and applications for accessing information.
   4. Providing experiences that encourage learners to be discriminating consumers, and skilled creators, of information.
   5. Providing leadership, collaboration, and assistance to teachers.
   6. Providing resources and activities that contribute to lifelong learning, while accommodating a wide range of differences in learning styles and interests.
   7. Providing resources and activities for learning that represent a diversity of experiences, opinions, social and cultural perspectives, as supported by NYSED's Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework.
   8. Supporting intellectual freedom, access to information, and facilitating opportunities for responsible citizenship in a democracy.
   9. Fostering personal curiosity and encouraging learners to seek out materials for recreational purposes - which may include using services provided by OCLC, ILL, public and academic libraries.

Rome Students: Log into SORA with your school credentials (*WITHOUT the @romecsd.org part for your Username).

Click on the computer to access the ONLINE RESOURCES.

• ​​​​​The RFA Library is open to ALL staff and students.
• Students can check out up to four (4) library books per visit; You can have up to five (5) SORA books checked out at a time.
• Books are checked out for a period of two weeks, and can be renewed if more time is needed.
• We can request books from other libraries in the area if you don't find what you're looking for. 
• The library has a vast collection of online databases for help with your research needs. Click on the computer image to your left to access them.
• Library desktop computers are available for any of your research or printing needs.