Terri Seward, Media Specialist

Lori Osgood - Media Assistant

757-566-5159

757-566-5158

7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Mission

The philosophy of the Media Center is to provide access to a dynamic and relevant collection of resources that supports the curriculum at Toano Middle School. Our mission is to help students become effective users of information, develop a love of reading, and become life-long learners.

Guidelines

• Individual students need a pass to use the Media Center, except before or after school. Students must sign in and sign out when they enter and exit the Media Center.
• Students may check out books for two weeks (no fines are charged). Items may be renewed or placed on hold. At various times of the year this policy may be adapted for inventory and circulation needs.
• Overdue notices are sent out to homeroom teachers.
• Students are responsible for lost book charges.
• Media Center computers should be used for classwork only.
• All students must sign the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) before using the computers.
• Staff may check out as many items as needed and reserve materials for use in the Media Center and/or the classroom

Accelerated

Reader (AR)

Toano Middle School participates in the Accelerated Reader program. This assessments helps a student to improve his or her reading skills and is designed to offer students a wide choice among fiction and non-fiction. Our online catalog, which is accessible from the Media Center, the classrooms, and online at home; identifies any book found as an AR book and gives the reading level or book level and point value. If the book is not part of the AR program, it has no identifying AR in the entry. If you wish to search through AR books only in the TMS library catalog, there is a drop-down menu labeled "Reading Programs" a the bottom of the Basic search window.For an even more refined search of AR books by genre (mystery, science fiction, fantasy, etc.) use the Power Search tab across the top of the online catalog page.

Home Connect and Accelerated Reader Link

AR BookFinder

At the above links above you will be able to view your child’s progress towards reading goals, view all books your child has read and see the scores for quizzes your child has taken. An added feature is the AR Bookfinder which indicates the titles of books for which quizzes are available. This includes ALL books, not just ones that are in the Toano Media Center. You may wish to note whether the interest level on the book in question is LG (for lower grades), MG (for middle grades), or UG (for upper grades-including material for more mature readers). The information at this link is constantly updated.

 

 

Resources

• Books
• Magazines
• Newspapers
• Computers
• Internet access
• Databases
• Printing
• Scanning
• Audiovisional equipment (staff only)
• Multimedia retrieval system (staff only)
• Laminating (staff only)
• Comb binding (staff only)
• Letter die-cutting (staff only)