The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 9 March 1969 — Page 27

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! CONGRATULATIONS To Lakeland Community School Corporation * On Your New > High School Facility —Your Architect ———■===^^=^^^^^= ===^=: F^ESE=EEF^^

Resource Center A Busy Place

The Learning Resource Center of the Wawasee high school has been planned for the purpose of providing all kinds of enrichment materials for broadening the scope of the curriculum, of aiding teachers with materials for expanding the individual courses, and for providing recreational materials for school personnel. Physically, the center has been

planned to shelve approximately 10,000 books, as well as numerous filmstrips, records, tapes or other materials deemed necessary for an expanded curriculum. This amount of material is in keeping with guidelines and recommendations made by the State Department of Public Instruction and the American Library Association. At the present time approximately 3,300 books are on the shelves, plus 150 filmstrips and about 100 records to which students have access as well as about 50 periodicals and six newspapers. The Learning Resource Center is comprised of a reading room which will seat 75 students (18 of the seats are individual carrels for private study), an audio visual storage area and conference room, periodical storage, a listening area where students may view filmstrips or listen to records and tapes, and an office and workroom for processing library materials. The L R C is also a part of the independent study program in which students may choose one of three areas for study during their free periods. The staff is composed of a professional librarian, who is responsible for selection, organization and aiding students and teachers in locating the materials which they desire, a library aide, who does typing and other clerical duties, and 10 student helpers who take care of many of the routine housekeeping duties necessary for this type of operation. The Learning Resource Center materials are composed of some materials which were brought from the three high schools at Milford, North Webster and Syracuse because they were inappropriate for junior high school, and items which have been purchased through the use of federal programs as well as corporation funding. The L R C, still in an embryo stage, will, in the future, provide a greater amount and variety of material for both student and teacher use. Although the printed material is still dominant in any school library set-up, much more emphasis is being placed on a more balanced collection and variety of audio visual materials and the equipment for its use. Many types of materials are necessary to support the expanded curriculum which Wawasee high school is offering to students. Also it is essential that student use of the new types of materials be encouraged so that their education can be accomplished or an individual basis, according to their interests and abilities. Many students can learn better with pictures than by reading or watching a demonstration or listening to a record; consequently, it is the duty of the school to provide as wide a rpnge as possible so that each student can be served. The most logical method is to collect materials in a central location so that they may be organized for easy access to students and teachers. Thus the name became Learning Resource Center rather than library because it signifies a collection of resource materials of all kinds for the purpose of learning.