Welcome to Balboa Elementary Library!   My name is Lee Fowler, teacher/librarian/information specialist.  Our library is an exciting place for your student.  It is filled with  wonderful books to read and it provides engaging learning activities to develop information/problem solving skills.

Library instruction has changed significantly in the last decade. With the arrival of the information age, the scope of our library program has expanded considerably.  We are the information specialists who teach your student how to navigate technology in a global world. 

Our mission is to ensure students are effective users of ideas and information.  We focus on both literacy development (love of reading) and information problem solving (research.)  Developing literacy is a team effort. Library classes teach the reading and thinking strategy skills that students are learning in their classrooms.  Library instruction also teaches students the information problem solving process, those research strategies of how to find, evaluate, select, and use information.  Critical skills for today's world!