Welcome to the Academy Library Media Center! The Penn Yan Academy library media program strives to provide school community members with services and materials to meet their educational, personal, and professional needs.  The library media program endeavors to provide learning experiences to improve the ability of students to effectively interact with information in a variety of formats.  Components of the program include; stimulating and encouraging an interest in reading, providing resources and activities that contribute to lifelong learning, providing collaboration and assistance to teachers and others in applying principles of instruction and information technology, and providing access to materials that represent a variety of experiences, opinions, and perspectives.

-(Adapted from: Information Power:  Building Partnerships for Learning,  (1998) p. 6-7)