The
Library Media Center at East Hampton High School serves many
purposes for both students and staff. Its mission focuses on
offering programs and services that are centered on information
literacy and that are designed around active, authentic student
learning as described in the information literacy standards for
student learning. The goals of today’s library media program
point to the development of a community of learners that is
centered on the student and sustained by a creative, energetic
library media program.
To that end, the East Hampton High School Library Media Center
provides students and staff with myriad materials in order to
effectuate successful research, pleasure reading, and assignment
creation. See the American Association of School Librarians’
site for more information. |
The
library provides three essential services:
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In the area of audio-visual services, the library media center
supplies students and staff with VCRs, videotapes, laminating
services, audio cassettes, and tape recorders. In addition, the
library media center keeps all of these supplies in working order.
The East Hampton school system is a member of the
Regional Audio
Visual Education (RAVE) consortium.
The
library at East Hampton High School currently maintains a print
collection of over eleven thousand volumes, comprising many
fiction titles and myriad resources having to do with the
curriculum of the high school. Students are invited to visit the
library during study halls to read for pleasure or work on
homework assignments. Most teachers use the library as an
effective resource when they give students research assignments.
Inventory and cataloging at the library is automated, using Athena
version 8.1 as the resource.
Technological
opportunities abound for students. The library has thirteen Wintel-based
computers for student use. Students use these machines for
research and for other uses related to classroom work. Like the
rest of Connecticut, the high school and its library are members
of the iCONN network allowing students access to thousands of
journals, periodicals, and reference works related to academic
subjects. |
