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Tenafly High School ’s

Lalor Library Media Center
January 1999

Annette Schembari, Library Secretary, has just completed cataloging new standardized test study guides into our reference collection. Now students can make use of these recently purchased guides falling under the headings of SAT, SAT II, HSPT, AP, and more. Interested students can use these guides individually in the library or form study groups and meet at specified times. Used effectively, these guides can help boost scores. The guides can be found on a special cart in front of the electronic reference center.

Annette Schembari, with students Dan F., Michael S.,
Alex P., and Seth S. showing new study guides

Throughout the day, students can be found reading in the library's periodical area in front of Mr. Elefante's 160 gallon fish tank. Dolores Butler, Library Secretary, makes sure each periodical is received, processed, and put on display on a timely basis so students can have access to the most current periodicals. With a wide variety of nearly 40 periodicals, there is something for everyone.

Dolores Butler with students Hillary P.,
David D.l, Alex S., David C.l, and Jason E.

Under the direction of Vincent Benenati, Director of Buildings and Grounds, Wilber Smith and Tom LePore completed a beautiful new electrical installation that fully powers up the media production lab. The installation included bringing in additional power through a long custom cut electrical conduit, installing a circuit breaker sub-panel, (allowing us to turn the equipment on and off safely) and adding several electrical outlets located throughout the room. The fine work they have completed will be used for years more years and is much appreciated!

We have been fulfilling requests for books and media from the English department fallen under the heading of "literary criticism.” The Tenafly Educational Foundation, through a grant the library received last year, has funded these requests. Over the next several months we shall be making additional purchases with the remainder of the funds. Many thanks to the TEF for making these funds available!

Chief Engineer of WNJU TV Brings Expertise to Library’s Media Production Lab

Mr. Bill Mierisch, WNJU’s Chief Engineer, recently spent three long days and many precious hours planning, configuring, recommending, wiring, and teaching. He has done this for us all on his own time, giving the school access to his years of technical knowledge and expertise. Mr. Mierisch has been the driving force behind getting the contributed equipment located in our Media Production Lab / Television Control Room up and running. Mr. Mierisch has taught us about the technical aspects of television which include timing, sync, phase, burst, interlacing, cabling, BNC connections, distribution amps, patch panels and much more. We have learned about reading waveform monitors and vector scopes, essential to understand how TV works. Now we have more knowledge to share with students so they have a chance to gain more of an appreciation of how television works. We are on our way to having a professional broadcast quality facility thanks to Mr. Mierisch!

Mike Hegarty and Jim Morrison (Social Studies), Fumiko Bacon (World Languages), Joe Spilewski (Art), and Steve Moger (Theatre Arts), participated in a workshop over the Christmas break that demonstrated the potential of the media production lab/television control room and how it can be used for classes. Steve Moger was a key to the success of this workshop through his careful explanation of the equipment and its function. During the workshop, several mock television productions were made. For each, workshop participants were rotated, so every participant became familiar with the equipment and its function. We experimented with the equipment, and, through debriefing, formulated ways classes can best use this facility as a group. At the end, Joe Spilewski gave us a tour of the graphic arts computer lab, where we discussed ways of integrating this technology with video.