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LIBRARY INFORMATION CENTER HIGHLIGHTS
•    Technology-rich facility
        o    All members of the learning community have access to an extensive and impressive range of information resources via the library the Library Media Information Center. This inviting, spacious, technologically rich, state of the art facility seats 125.  The information Center includes an instructional classroom, conference room and an informal area for reading and browsing.  The facility is quipped with 35 desktop PC’s and 72 Mac Books in carts. In order to meet the individual learning styles and abilities of students, the Library provides and organized collection of approximately 26,000 items.  These materials can be searched from the district web-based catalog, Destiny. The resources of the Upper Merion Twp. Library  and local colleges and well as all libraries throughout the states are accessible through the Access PA inter-library loan process that provides for delivery and return.

•    Reference information
        o    We provide an extraordinary array of online reference and periodical databases for students to access in school and remotely at home.  Unique resources such as books on ipods, laptops, digital cameras, and digital video cameras are also available for use and home checkout

•    Information Literacy Skills
        o    The High School Library Information Center offers a 9-12 Library Information Literacy Skills Curriculum that is part of the District’s K-12 Library Information Literacy Skills Curriculum.  These 21st century information skills are integrated, planned, taught and assessed with content area teachers. The emphasis on the program is that learners use 21st century information skills resources and tools to think critically, gain knowledge, draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge, create knowledge, share knowledge, be ethical and productive, and pursue personal and aesthetic growth (AASL).  

•    Student Use
        o    Library access is provided from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30.  There can be as many as 70 students in before school and 40 in after school. The library instructs on average 20 classes a week.  We can guarantee that 100% of the student body uses the Library in an instructional way every way.

•    Instruction
        o    Collaborated, differentiated instruction utilizing Understanding by Design concepts,  Library 2.0 techniques and philosophy, access, and excellent resources make our library program one of the premier programs in the state.