Windham Center School Library Media Center

The Windham School Media Center program provides carefully selected materials in all formats to students and staff in curricular and interest areas. The program’s goal is to collaborate with teachers in developing responsible, independent learners who find, evaluate and use information, and to encourage reading competency and enjoyment.

Two professional District Media Generalists and three full-time Library Assistants serve the district's 1600 students and their teachers. In addition, volunteers provide an invaluable service at all three schools. Volunteer tasks include shelving books, helping students use the online catalog and find materials on the shelves, processing books, shelf reading, coordinating the PTA Book Fair, and completing various special projects. The PTA also has offered incredible monetary and material support through the operation of the spring and fall book fairs at each school and the summer golf fundraiser.

The Destiny automated circulation system efficiently manages library resources and provides excellent service to students. The automated catalog from each school is available online. Through the Media Center web page students and staff can access multiple online databases. Grolier Online includes the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, America the Beautiful, and Lands and People. Through the State Library’s NHewLink we also receive access to EBSCO databases, which include NoveList K-8, elementary article search databases like Searchasaurus, and middle school and adult databases. NetTrekker is a “smart” and safe search engine; Atomic Learning provides web-based software training. Students also have access to Maps101 (maps), NoodleTools (a bibliography creator), NewsBank (newspapers), and Biography Resource Center (biographies).

Students at each level are active in a variety of special library media center programs and activities. At Golden Brook and Center Schools these include visiting authors and activities for Read Across America Week, Poetry Month, and National Children's Book Week. Students also participate in book projects, writing contests, spring and fall book fairs, summer reading incentive programs, and voting for the Ladybug Book Award. Additionally, Center School students participate in Battle of the Books, the 25+ Book Club, and voting for the Great Stone Face book award.