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Visit to Fillmore Central Elementary & Middle Schools
December 03, 2008 02:35 PM | School Media Centers, Library VisitsMichael Scott, Assistant Director
On November 7th, during a marathon day of visiting libraries, I had the privilege of visiting the Fillmore Central Elementary and Middle School media centers. Both schools are located in a connected building in Preston, MN. Jill Eerdmans, the media specialist for Fillmore Central Schools, gave me a tour of the two media centers (check out photos from my visit on SELCO's Flickr site). Both media centers have fairly large spaces devoted to them as well as sizeable book collections. There are computers (both Macs and PCs) available in each media center for students to use. Though these two media centers are not on the SELCO ILS, they are both on an automated system (Follett) and this is available for students to search as well.
With regard to staffing, Jill spends a large amount of her time in the elementary media center as she is without a support staff person. However, in the middle school media center, Jill has a support staff person, Mary Hatfield. Unfortunately, Mary wasn't in the media center that day but I did get to see some of her nice display of fossils. Check out the photo of Mary's display of fossils on the SELCO Flickr site. In addition, on the day that I visited, I saw a familiar face volunteering in the elementary media center: Paula Michel, the former Harmony Public Library Director! Paula is assisting Jill with a major weeding project in the elementary media center. It was great to see Paula again as she was Harmony Public's Director when I worked at SELCO the first time (1997-1999.)
I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to Fillmore Central Elementary and Middle Schools and want to thank Jill Eerdmans for the opportunity.
