SCHOOL LIBRARIAN PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
INTRODUCTION

The effective school librarian focuses on students' long-term development into responsible and independent learners. Effective students acquire the basic skills and dispositions necessary to achieve autonomy, literacy, responsibility to self and other, and lifelong learning.  The ultimate goal is for students to become positive, confident, competent, caring learners who demonstrate initiative, solve problems, set goals, and make decisions that help them to function successfully in a rapidly changing technological society.  The educational system must develop citizens who can govern themselves and have a global perspective.  The citizens must be flexible, resourceful and able to deal with open-endedness, complexity, information explosion and accelerated growth in technologies, while maintaining a set of values, individual stability and integrity.

The general outcomes of public education in Hawaii sought for all learners include the following general skills and dispositions:

• Being responsible for one's own learning
  
  
• Working well with others
  
  
• Using complex thinking and problem-solving
  
  
• Recognizing and generating quality performance and quality products
  
  
• Communicating effectively
  
  
• Using technology effectively and ethically