| DeKalb Educational Media |
Department of Educational Media
Mountain Industrial Center
1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd.
Stone Mountain, GA 30083
678-676-2401
678-676-2427 Fax
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Educational Media StaffRosalind Dennis, Director
Valerie Ayer, Coordinator
Debbie Sandford, Coordinator
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| Educational Media, Educational Media, a department of the Division of Teaching and Learning, provides services and support to the system’s school library media programs. The department’s staff of one director, two coordinators, one cataloger, and six auxiliary members assists the school library staff (a certified librarian and in some schools, a library clerk) at 140 schools and special programs in providing services and materials to DeKalb’s students and teachers. Educational Media provides a number of specific services. The Professional Library provides “24-7” online access to an extensive collection of books, e-books, and other professional documents and journals as well as interlibrary loan to DeKalb teachers and employees. The Learning Resources Center offers DeKalb teachers its 14,500 DVDs, videos, CDs, and a sheet music collection through an online catalog with courier delivery to our schools and sites. Instructional Media Processing provides library cataloging for materials to DeKalb’s school library media centers (LMCs) through membership in LYRASIS/OCLC. |
| The department’s administrators communicate with LMC staffs through school visits, e-mail, a listserv, online memos, and annual motivational and organizational meetings. In addition to the services provided by the Professional Library, the Learning Resources Center, and Instructional Media Processing, the department supports the LMC staff by offering the following: |
- professional learning courses on a wide range of professional topics
- training for LMSs for implementation of new programs
- training for principals in the annual LMS evaluation
- presentations by prominent authors and experts on current library trends and issues
- guidance on compliance with state and regional accrediting agency standards
- guidance on implementation of the school system's Copyright Policy, Internet Acceptable Use Policy, Instructional Media and Equipment Policy, and Accountability for School Property Policy
- updates on current trends in the profession
- information updates from the school system and from the Georgia Department of Education
- acquisition services and fund accounting for purchases of library materials
- opening day collections for new LMCs
- development of specifications for new LMCs
- purchase of LMC and classroom audio visual equipment for new schools
- support for new LMSs through targeted professional development classes, on-site visitations, mentoring, and implementation/evaluation of required program activities and initiatives
- collaborative programs for K-12 students with the DeKalb County Public Library
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| AASL National School Library Media Program of the Year 2001 |
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