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The Media Center of PLDMS houses over 10,000 books &
magazines for students, plus books and periodicals for teachers, internet
access, data bases and a variety of curriculum support materials.
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Mrs. Carlson is the Media Specialist,
and is available all periods except 1st when she teaches the TV
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BOOKS for students
Students may check out 2 books and keep them for two weeks. Books may
be renewed. Reference books and videos do not circulate, although some
older encyclopedias may be checked out for 3 days. Students who come
to us from other schools will be reminded to return any books to their
previous school.
ACCELERATED READER
We have over 4,000 books, both fiction and non-fiction, with AR reading
tests. The AR test list is over 100 pages in length. The Media Center
has 2 lists by title, one by author and one by reading level. An AR
test list is also provided to the Lee County Public Libraries twice
a year. You may also search for AR books through SUNLINK,
an online data base provided by the Florida Department of Education
and the University of Central Florida.
DESTINY - OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
PLDMS uses Destiny, a union catalog of media center resources of all
Lee County Public Schools. It is a web-based program (no home-access
at this time). Students may use 40 search stations to do basic searches
for books by title, author, subject, or keyword. For more advanced users,
Boolean seaching is encouraged.
INTERNET COMPUTERS
We have 40 computers with internet access. All computers are connected
to a printer. Students may print 2 pages of text at no charge. The Lee
School District uses a internet filter system called Chaperon to help
prevent access to educationally inappropriate websites.
COPY MACHINE
The National Junior Honor Society purchased a color laser printer for
the Media Center this summer. Students may make black and white photocopies
for $.10 and color photocopies for $.50. We hope to have print management
software later this year which enable students to self-service this
printer.
NEW STUDENTS
New students come to the Media Center during their first day to receive
a barcode in their new PLDMS planner. They will use the barcode to check
out both library books and textbooks.
The record of books that have not been returned from another school
will follow the student to their new schools. If your student did not
return all their books from a previous school, please have the books
brought to our Media Center, and we will return them to the proper school,
and so clear their record. If there is a problem about whether or not
books were returned, you will have to clear it with the original school.
If the students are monolingual, they may read the rules written in
Spanish, Haitian Creole, and Portuguese. We do have a variety of books
written in Creole, French, and Spanish..
ONE-LINERS on EAGLE EYE NEWS
One-Liners are greetings from students to students delivered on the
daily live announcements.. They are generally “Happy Birthday”
or “Good luck”, etc. type of messages. Students must use their
real name, and we charge $.50. For $2.50, we will sing “Happy Birthday”
to the “lucky” student. (Some years, we are pretty awful,
and other years, we’re fairly good..)
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