Sentences with phrase «high school libraries»

The goal is to provide direct assistance funding to middle or high school libraries for special short - term projects or events that would create new or enhance educational activities in order to engage students with and in the library and to promote reading, books, literacy and authors.

«Motivators and Barriers to Sexual - Health Information Provision in High School Libraries: Perspectives from District - Level Library Coordinators and High School Principals», School Library Research.

While only 33 percent of elementary school libraries currently offer ebooks, 50 percent of middle - school libraries, and 63 percent of high school libraries do.

Average collections topped 1,500 in high school libraries, and 435 in middle school libraries in 2012, up from 365 and 119, respectively in 2011.

We have flexible scheduling, as do most high school libraries.

Students at New York Life Revitalizing High School Libraries sites talk about why their library media centers «rock!»

Funded by the New York Life Foundation from 2003 - 2005, Revitalizing High School Libraries (RHSL) was a pilot program that allowed Public Education Network (PEN) and its member local education funds (LEFs) in Minneapolis, San Francisco and Tampa to update and refurbish library media centers in four high schools.

Students at New York Life Revitalizing High School Libraries Sites Talk About Why Their Library Media Centers Rock!

«An expertly crafted piece of historical fiction, Berry's latest is a must for middle and high school libraries.»

- Kirkus «It's not subtle in the way that Gulliver's Travels, M.T. Anderson's Feed, and Scott Westerfeld's «Uglies» series aren't subtle; it's social commentary with a bite... Endlessly discussable and a first purchase for public and high school libraries.»

Book of the Year Award, South Carolina Association of High School Libraries, winner, The Body of Christopher Creed, 2005

Librarian Christmas / Archivist Christmas / Literary Christmas / Navidades literarias / Navidades archiveras / Navidades bibliotecarias / Bookish Christmas See more about Public Libraries, High School Libraries and Book Pages.

Thanks to our individual donors and thanks to our corporate sponsor, Follett, we were able to rally hundreds of residents to take action to support the high school libraries.

The new money is for middle school and high school libraries.

The Rockland County Times donated the proceeds to the Thomas J. Foley Memorial Foundation, with the purpose of distributing the movie «Thomas J. Foley: Legacy of a Young Hero» to local high school libraries, thereby spreading his inspirational story.

He went from table to table at a high school library, attempting to console devastated family members.

At 7 AM, five students assemble in the Shermer High School library to serve a 9 - hour weekend detention.

We remain inside this one set — an unbelievably spacious high school library — for nearly the full 97 - minute runtime.

An under - utilized high school library becomes a constant learning organization and a place of cloud literacy where students present to each other and collaborate via their avatars inside 3 - D virtual classrooms.

Joquetta Lynn Johnson is a high school library media specialist with the Baltimore County Public Schools and an adjunct lecturer at Morgan State University.

An under - utilized high school library becomes a constant learning organization and a place of cloud literacy where students send their avatars into 3 - D virtual classrooms.

Mrs. Robin Burns, high school library media teacher, has worked with students in Mr. Kelly Wetherhold's Media Management II class to document the design and printing process.

Standing in the Clover Hill High School library one recent Thursday afternoon, Democratic congressional candidate Warren A. Stewart did his best to respond as students peppered him with questions on everything from school vouchers, gun control, and abortion to why a working citizen under age 18 must pay taxes but is not permitted to vote.

NEA member and Valley Regional High School library media specialist Kristie Schmidt provides a visual explanation to her students of what would happen if the censors got their way: An empty bookshelf in their library and a list of what's missing.

A student looks for a book in the George Washington Community High School library on Monday, August 29.

The first session of the school year will be held on Tuesday, October 13 at the Burlington High School library.

This marking period Mrs. Marie Shuey, high school ESL teacher, and Mrs. Robin Burns, high school library media teacher, worked with ESL students to digitally curate research for an ecology unit.

A prospective growth area is the use of the Beyond High School library to offer more testing preparation for students with post-secondary goals ranging from competitive colleges to vocational programs and the military.

On today's Local News Hour, Leslie Thatcher speaks with Park City school board president Tania Knauer about remodeling plans for the high school library and master planning for the Kearns Blvd. school campus.

Kristen Mattson, Ed.D., is a high school library media center director in Aurora, Illinois.

«The presence of comics in a junior high school library resulted in a dramatic 82 % increase in library traffic and a 30 % increase in circulation of non-comic books.»

Trouble is, the app looks and feels like my old high school library — utilitarian and unlovely, mostly functional but stern and not always user friendly.

Learn how the recent addition of an assessment feature makes Research Companion the one - stop shop for all your information literacy needs and to hear about the great success librarian Deborah Sherry had after adopting Research Companion in her high school library.

«I recently went into the Woodbridge High School library.

Through middle and high school the library is a safe haven for shy, introverted, special needs, emotional support, and «new» students!

Me thinking high school library...» Britney Wyatt: «I'd love to share it with... Read More

For this assignment, I decided to reach out to my old high school library (Merrimack Valley High School) and the New Hampshire State Library (NHSL).

I have purchased some reference titles in ebook format for my high school library and have a couple of English teachers who take advantage of them.

Homework assignments were answered using local resources — the high school library WAS the public library for much of my childhood.

The Columbine High School library, where most of the 13 people were killed in that 1999 rampage, was removed and then another was opened to take its place.

Carroll Senior High School • Southlake, TX 08/2002 — Present Librarian Oversee all aspects of a high school library serving over 1,200 faculty, staff and students.

Not exact matches

Community programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where people meet.

In high school back in the «80s, this man made available for me a job as a «security guard» at the Rosenberg Library in Galveston, TX — the library which he thoughtfully and dutifully led for over 30 years.

My favorite high school memories take place in the library: lounging by the magazines, Quiz Bowl practice, the time I spent reading The Lord of the Rings at a table in the fiction section.

Another student was a bit less diplomatic, declaring that my musical tastes are a «disgrace to teenagers» after I mentioned that I began building my classical library during my high school years.

I suspect they are at the school computers in junior high school during study hall or maybe at the library.

A sign should be put up on libraries «This is not a telephone booth, or a day - care center, or a high school cafeteria.»

Dear Abby: For high school annuals, contact your local library.

«We have all the characteristics of an old - fashioned hometown - in our downtown area, we have a high school and a library and a post office that people can walk to.

Mrs. Hollenbeck was employed for 20 years in the library at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn prompting many students to share her lifelong love of books and reading.