Library Media Center
Maintained by the
Library Media Center
Lawrence Junior High School
7 School Street
Fairfield, Maine 04937
207.453.4200 x312
kscott@msad49.org
LMC Hours
weekdays
7a.m. to 2:15 p.m.
usually earlier
usually later
More News
Kathy Scott
Dec 20, 2006
Library Media Center
Dec 19, 2006
Channel 3 News
Dec 19, 2006
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
The Curriculum
LJHS LMC Integrated Curriculum
“Discovering the best way to find or create information”
__ Orientation to LMC - rules, layout, similarities to other lmcs
__ Orientation to Spectrum card catalog database
__ Orientation to LMC home page and its uses
__ Orientation to the MARVEL! databases
__ Search strategy (What do you need? Best approach, etc)
__ Pathfinders - research guides - bibliographies
__ Types of fiction
__ Author awareness
__ Compare and contrast information sources
__ Access to
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Looking for a magazine article?
Gone are the days of thumbing each issue of a likely magazine in search of the article you need. Just like the telephone book is really a database of telephone numbers, and the card catalog is a database of the books and other media in your library media center, there is a database for searching for magazine articles. In fact, there’s a database for searching Maine newspapers, and one for health information, and another for information about animals, and, well, there are a lot more!
In
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Kathy Scott, Library Media Specialist
Media Specialist at LJHS since 1980
Excellence in Middle Level Education Awards
Fly Fishing Kids
Interactive Children’s Museum
Grassroots Staff Development
Award for Outstanding Library, State Board of Education
Graduate program in Library Science from Western Michigan University
Bachelors of Arts (summa cum laude) from Michigan State University
additional studies: University of Maine system
Author
Moose in the Water Bamboo on the Bench
Headwaters Fall as Snow
dvd:
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Library Media Services
Locate, analyze, evaluate, interpret, and communicate information and ideas
The Library Media Center
actively serves 450 seventh and eighth grade students,
their faculty, and the community with:
• 8,000 books, including a full range of fiction, non-fiction, and reference works especially selected for middle level students
• Multi-media, including DVDs, CDs, computer software, and access to the Area Resource Center
• Subscriptions to sixty periodicals,
• On-line
Monday, December 18, 2006
Channel 3 News
Every morning before school, the fifteen volunteer members of the Channel 3 News Crew meet in the LMC to produce their daily live broadcast. The school’s general announcements, practice and rehearsal schedules, game results, contest winners, student birthdays, and daily weather is shaped into a script. Graphics, audio background, and video effects are added. There is just about enough time for a run-through before the floor director cues the opening trailer at 7:25. The news is re-
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