Media Center

 

The PTHS Library Media Center is an approximately 4500 square foot facility with print and non-print resources. The facility is available for students from 7:30AM to 3:45PM and to faculty and staff at any time. Students may come with a pass from study hall, a teacher pass, or a lunch pass. In addition, students visit the LMC with their classes as curriculum enhancement.

 

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." - Aristotle (Quote Geek - http://www.wisdomquotes.com)

 

Mission Statement

 

The mission of the library media program in the Pequannock Township School District is that which is set forth in Information Power: Guidelines for School Libraries:

 

i.e., to ensure that the students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.

 

This mission is accomplished:

 

• by providing intellectual and physical access to materials in all formats
• by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading, viewing, and using information and ideas
• by working with other educators to design learning strategies to meet the needs of individual students

 

(Information Power, p.1)

 

To carry out this mission, the school library media center must offer a variety of services whose primary functions are the development of thinking and information skills and the development of motivation for reading; and must use the expanding search capabilities of the computer. Services range from the selection and processing of appropriate materials and arranging them for ease of access, to providing access to materials outside the individual library media center, to providing instruction to staff and students in locating, evaluating, and using the materials.

 

Essential to the success of any library media program is a pleasant and well-organized physical facility with a welcoming atmosphere and an environment conducive to learning. That facility must be open and staffed five days a week.

 

Two further essentials to providing intellectual and physical access to information are adequate support staff (secretarial and/or paraprofessional) and flexible scheduling. Without support staff the library media specialist becomes mired in clerical routines and cannot be available to staff and students for planning and presenting activities and providing instruction.

 

If classes are scheduled rigidly into the library, neither the library nor the services of the library media specialist are accessible to those classes and individuals who are working on research activities.

 

"Students and teachers [should] have access to the library media center and to qualified professional staff throughout the school day. Classes [should be] scheduled flexibly to encourage use at point of need." (Guidelines, p.38)

 

Contact Information

Telephone 973-616-6000 (High School)

FAX 973-631-6029 (High School)

 

Postal address 85 Sunset Road -

Pompton Plains, NJ 07444 (High School)

 

Internet/Subscription resources in the LMC

Passwords available from your teacher or the Librarian

UNITED STREAMING - View and Download Educational Media Clips to use in presentations, etc. http://www.unitedstreaming.com

 

eLibrary Curriculum

eLibrary is a multi-use database that includes a general information component, a History Center, and a Literature component. This database has a remote access password for student at-home use. Please see your teacher or the Library Media Specialist for information. http://www.proquestk12.com

 

FROM THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Pequannock Public Library has several subscription databases that are available both from a remote computer and from the library, itself. You can access the remote databases from the library’s website.

http://www.pequannocklibrary.org

 

JerseyClicks "High Quality Internet Age Information" from anywhere you have Internet access! To access JerseyClicks, use your public library card number or see the librarian for more information. http://jerseyclicks.org/homepages/jclicks/index.asp?cid=jclicks&lid=jclicks