Learning through Books, Media and Technology

ARTICLES THIS ISSUE:

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

South Gate junior High School
South Gate

South Gate Junior High School's library media center program is an ever-widening network of partnerships. Students, staff, and community come together here and work to make the library media center an "idea place." Identified as the largest junior high school in the nation, South Gate Junior High has some other unique features: it serves as a model middle school for California; it provides an outstanding student activities program; 97 percent of its students are Hispanic; it is very community oriented; and, it applied for and received more than one million dollars in grants over the past three years!

Students at South Gate Junior High School anticipate their computer creation

The two library media teachers at this large school are extremely busy, dynamic people. They have worked harmoniously to provide a wide variety of technologies for learning, and have established networks with classroom teachers so that materials and technology are well integrated into the curriculum. At dedicated work stations, students have access to a variety of resources. An electronic encyclopedia is a "hot item" as are CD-ROM indexes to some 120 periodicals and corresponding microfiche copies of these magazines, many of them international in scope. A NewsBank work station provides access to the incredibly varied questions asked by students in the middle grades. Learning history from a personal perspective ("What was happening on the day you were ' born?"; "Where were your parents When Kennedy was assassinated?") is made possible through use of microfilm copies of the New York Times. This exciting center has responded directly to the needs of staff and students by becoming essential to all of them. From the array of electronic resources to the mini-library of paired English and Spanish books, to telecommunications tools, to ERIC information for teachers, Ruby and Dale are Inform tion Power personified.

• South Gate Junior High School (Grades 6-8, enrollment 3,970)
  4100 Firestone Blvd., South Gate 90290 (213) 567-1431
  Dr. Pete Ferry, Principal
  Dale Buboltz and Ruby Ling-Louie, Library Media Teachers
  Los Angeles Unified School District