The collection of the Dr. Deno Fenili Learning Resource Center (LRC) consists of over 7,000 books, magazines, videos and CD-ROM's. Students have access to the Alexandria automated catalog system. Students in the 3rd thru 5th grades participate in the Accelerated Reader program.

The LRC has a Computer Lab with 27 Windows XP machines. Each computer has the Office 2003 Professional Suite, Type 2 Learn, Kid Pix, Internet Explorer, and other software installed for student use.

The goal of the LRC is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. As the information hub of the school, the LRC program works in conjunction with the curriculum. Classroo teachers and the Media Specialist cooperatively plan the teaching of technology and information skills so that they are integrated with the subject matter being taught in the classrooms.

The staff of the LRC consists of Mr. Galiotto, the Library Media Specialist and Ms. Palanti the LRC Aide.

Here are a few useful SEARCH ENGINES

	Encyclopedia Britannica is an on-line encyclopedia that is written at many different reading levels, from elementary through college. To access this resource stop by the LRC and ask for the login and password.
KidsClick is a portal (a collection of sites grouped by subject or topic.) This is the first place I go to find elementary school curriculum sites. Searches can be refined by reading level and amount of graphics.
Yahooligans! is a searchable, browsable index of the Internet designed for Web surfers ages 7 to 12. Only sites judged appropriate for this age group are chosen.
Ask Jeeves for Kids allows kids to ask complete questions using plain English. Sites are filtered using SurfWatch to block access to many inappropriate Web sites
A mega search engine that searches many search engines and gives results with the most relevant first.
A good all purpose search engine that searches over 1 billion pages of the Internet

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Last updated 9/11/2008 by: J. G.