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The Hillcrest High School Media
Center is located in the center of the school with doors leading to
both the front hall and the back hall of the school. There is an
atrium located adjacent to large windows, which allows natural light
to filter into the library, and it also provides a view of the award
winning water garden complete with fish. Teachers often take their
classes outdoors on sunny days, and library patrons can check on the
fish just by looking through the floor to ceiling glass. The
class of 2007 donated a 125 gallon fish tank, which is the home of
African Cichlids. Most of the cichlids were born and raised at
HHS.
The Media Center has a collection
containing 15,000 books, most of them purchased in the past three
years. Our young adult fiction collection is updated frequently in
our quest to get the latest titles out to the students and to keep
our readers reading. Nonfiction titles are evaluated often and
titles are added to support the curriculum. Our Reference
Collection contains over 1,800 books. The Media Specialists are
happy to take suggestions from teachers and students when ordering
books.
We have 38 magazines, 4 newspapers,
24 computer stations for students as well as 8 mobile computer labs
to give our students the technological advantage and access to
numerous online sources. Teachers bring their students to the Media
Center to take advantage of all our resources during a class
period. We have, on occasion, been known to send a cart full of
books to the teacher's classroom. In order for students to complete
projects, reports, and research papers we will lend them tape, glue
sticks, scissors, paper, pens and markers. We also house 8
carts of laptops for teachers to check out and use in their
classrooms. The school purchased ten sets of Promethean
Activotes for teachers to use with the Promethean boards to receive
immediate feedback from their students.
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