Library Storeroom Takes on New Life
Structural
Modifications for “Media Production Laboratory” Underway
With the expert coordination of Roy Baxter, three windows and a door are in the construction phase in the back of the library. What was once a dark storage area is being transformed into a laboratory where students can work with several different forms of media to produce projects for their classes.
Presently students can make 35mm slide/sound, video tape, and audio presentations. In the future, it is hoped that equipment can be obtained to allow for a wider variety of presentation formats. These formats would include computer generated presentations with specific software, and the ability to store these presentations on either CD ROM or video tape. The neighboring Multi Media Presentation Room can either work with the Lab or independently. It is a perfect room to view student work, or for teachers to give lessons using a wide variety of media.
Included in the Lab is a small television studio with the ability to broadcast to specific locations within the school.
Student Volunteers At Work During Summer ‘97
Help to Enhance Library
Appearance
Several important projects were completed over the summer by students volunteering for the community service program. The most visible and labor intensive was the remounting of the flags. Student volunteers Edwin Liu, Dan Park, Phil Park, with summer employees David Wilson and Michael Johnson (’97) assisted in removing thirty five dusty flags from their warped wooden poles, washed each, hung them out to dry and ironed where necessary. Each flag was then reinstalled on a six foot piece of conduit with self tapping screws (no string) and topped off with a golden cabinet knob to act as finial. The flags were then placed back in their respective brackets looking good for September.
Ji Hoon Ryu helped shelve books and made sure books were in the correct Dewey Decimal order. Brian Fullmer jumped on board and helped David Wilson catalog the large record collection. Christopher Kim, and Jason Chow
also volunteered several days and assisted on other projects.
Many thanks all the students
that chose to work in the Lalor Library Media Center Summer ‘97!!
Would
Give Library Gallery/Exhibition Capabilities
Display and exhibition space would dramatically increase with the installation of display areas on top of some or all of the library’s fourteen low bookshelves. Still in the planning stage, these display cases could be as large as two feet by twelve feet and house student created displays such as solar systems, artwork, sprouting seedlings, or even an ant farm. At the perfect height for a standing observer, these areas would be put to an educationally efficient use. The cases themselves would be roughly two feet in height and have several slide in plexiglass panels with a plexiglass top to take advantage of the natural light.
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