Library

Westwood Christian school strives to achieve excellence in all aspects of our ministry and this includes our library.  The mission of the Westwood Christian School Library is to work together with faculty and administration to enable students to be effective and responsible users of information and ideas in order to foster intellectual, spiritual, personal, and social developments for service to the Lord.

Our school libraries vision is to function as the academic hub of the school.  We seek to fully integrate all curriculum and strategy so that the students can become lifelong learners and always have the information readily at hand.  The libraries goal is to enable the students to be successful by providing them access to information so that they can evaluate, enjoy, and create ideas and information in any format.

As a library, we have over 23.1 books per student and subscriptions to more than 80 periodicals.  We are in the process of developing a program to fully automate the library media center-including the catalogs, encyclopedias, CD-ROMs, public library databases, First Search, Word Cat, Infotrac, and selected websites.  In addition, the library also possesses a collection of VCR's, DVD's, and CD-ROM programs to enhance the classroom learning environment.  We are also working with other library organization to enhance our facility.  Currently students can access the Miami-Dade County Library System and check books out online, having the books shipped to a local library branch.  This also allows access to the Inter-Library Loan system.