Learning through Books, Media and Technology

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Chico High School: Uning the library media center and its tools to push out the walls of the classroom

What do you do with 4,000 students? A Great library media center helps!

Library as learning laboratory — for students and teachers

From local access systems to global dialog

Helping students and staff connect

Restructuring: getting to the heart of the learning process

Making the most of learning resources, from human to technological

Winning combinations — kids, technologies, teaching partnership

A "logical place" for applications of information technology

The "Dream Team" at work: changing ideas of how we prepare students for the future

From library to "Discovery Center" — a marriage of tradition and technology

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From library to "Discovery Center" --- a marriage of tradition and technology

Monterey High School
Monterey

With one of the oldest facilities and collections in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, the Monterey High School library comes from a traditional print-oriented base of books and magazines. Recent technological developments, however; have brought changes to the collection and the facility. Traditional services and instructional strategies have also undergone changes.

Involvement in the Monterey Model Technology Project has resulted in collaborative planning between the library media teacher and the entire high school staff. The library has been renamed "The Discovery Center" --- a very accurate description! Resources now include the TOM/INFOTRAC system, CD-ROM technology, video/laser technology, an online public access library catalog, Dialog online searching capabilities, and computers for word processing.

Utilization of the center by students has increased because of cooperative efforts with classroom teachers. For example, English teacher Rich Lundy requires his junior students to do research on specific time periods in American history and analyze the influences and implications of literature during these periods. In another class, students use print and nonprint resources to create a video report that is then presented to the class. Classroom teachers ,and Marilyn Canady work together on all phases of these projects.

• Monterey High School (Grades 9-12; enrollment 1,484)
  P.O. Box 1031, Monterey 93940 (mail)
  Hermann Drive, Monterey; (408) 649-1074
  Mae Johnson, Principal
  Marilyn Canady, Library Media Teacher
  Monterey Peninsula Unified School District