Media Center
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Policy and Procedures
Media Center Hours:
Monday 7:30 - 4:00
*Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 7:30 - 4:10 (activity bus days)
Friday - 7:30 - 3:30pm
*Afterschool in Media Center
Students are allowed to stay after school in the Media Center to study, research or work on homework (on activity bus days) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays , from 2:45 - 4:10 pm. Any student wishing to stay after school needs to sign up with the Media Staff before 2:40/end of the day. Computers are for educational use, and students are expected to access appropriate websites for research and study during the school day and afterschool. Students are not allowed to check email or access social websites.
Visitation/ASK: Media Center is open before school, during ASK, lunch and after school. Students should sign up for ASK appointments in the Media Center with Ms. Burk or Ms. Altman.
Scheduling classes please see Ms. Burk, Media Specialist.
Material Loan Policy: Books/Recorded books (and Play-a-ways) - 2 week loan
Magazines (back issues)/Videos - are not available for checkout.
Reference Books (encyclopedias, etc.) - 1 day loan
Student Privleges 6th/7th/8th grade - may borrow 3 materials. Overdue materials temporarily suspend borrowing privileges.
Staff
Ms. Tammie Burk, Media Specialist
Ms. Pamela Altman, Media Assistant
Media Center and You!
The mission of the Media Center at A. Mario Loiederman MS is to maintain an open, safe and friendly environment filled with current educational resources in print and non-print formats to meet the interest and needs of our diverse student population.
The media center’s collection of over 20,000 pieces of materials and resources offers a variety of resources on all reading levels. The collection includes playaways/recorded books, e-books, online resource databases, magazines, newspapers, graphic novels, books in other languages (both Fiction and Nonfiction titles in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Urdu etc), music CD collection, art prints and more. Much of the Reference collection has been matched with an e-book version, which allows students to access the reference book online from home.
Each year MCPS purchases online database resources to assist students with research and class projects. These databases, which have been evaluated by MCPS, are creditable sources filled with valid information and facts, pictures, videos, timelines and primary document information. In addition, the Media Center also purchases online database resources or Loiederman students such as Grove Art Online and Grove Music Online.
Grove Art, www.groveart.com is an online reference resource for all aspects of visual arts worldwide from prehistory to present day, great for art prints, artist information etc)
Grove Music Online, www.grovemusic.com (an online reference resource for Music includes full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, dictionary of Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz).
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The Media Center is the ideal place to visit and check out reading materials, complete research, type and study. The Media Center is open before/ after school during ASK and lunch. Students may visit the Media Center before and after school without a pass. However, during the school day a pass from your teacher is required. Students are able to make an ASK appointment with Ms. Burk or Ms. Altman to visit during the ASK period of the day.
- Borrowing privileges for all grades 6th /7th /8th grade - limit of 3 items.
- Books / recorded books are checked out for 2 weeks.
- Magazines /videos are not available for checkout.
- Overdue materials temporarily suspend borrowing privileges
Passwords for online resources/e-books are distributed by the media staff.
Media Center Resources
The media center’s collection has 20,000+ pieces of materials offering a diversity of resources including recorded books, e-books, magazines, newspapers, graphic novels, electronic resources, books in other world languages, CDs*,DVDs, Videos* , Geokits*, Art prints* and more.
There is a mounted LCD projector, a Promethean board and 27 computers in the Media Center. Three additional computers are dedicated to Patron’s Catalog, allowing patrons to independently search the collection of materials.
*Staff Only
EBooks
See Media Staff for Username and Password
Gale Virtual Reference
TV Studio
WLMS Morning News is responsible for presenting the daily announcements each day. The Morning News usually pre-recorded the day before, airs each morning at 7:55 am on Channel 38. Students are responsible for much of the work that makes WLMS happen each day working as announcers, operate teleprompter/character generator/audio equipment, studio cameras, assist with editing, select audio and create slides for the morning announcements.
WLMS TV is open to all students. No previous experience is necessary to be a WLMS TV Crew member. However, preparing and presenting the morning news requires a lot of work and commitment, therefore students who are interested must be responsible, dependable and dedicated!
“Rolling Announcements” is a slide show news presentation of the current events and news at Loiederman. The Rolling Announcements are shown throughout the day on Channel 38 following the morning news.
WLMS TV News and the Rolling Announcements are sponsored by Ms. Burk, Media Specialist. Please see Ms. Burk for more information.
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