School Media Committee

The 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/procedures
• Establishes 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