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The mission of the Topeka Public Schools Library Media Program is to empower all students and staff to be effective users of information and information technology in order to communicate ideas and solve problems in an ever-changing world and to foster life-long literacy.
Improve student achievement
Foster literacy
Produce technologically astute students
Nurture life-long learning
- All regular schools within the Topeka Public Schools have library media centers with material collections developed to meet the needs of the individual school. There is an emphasis on good books for children to read, on nonfiction books with current information and on materials and digital resources to support classroom teacher needs. Hope Street Academy and Capital City Schools have smaller library media center collections.
- Access to school library collections and Internet resources is provided through Destiny, the library manager system. The library system icons for both your school and the entire district appear in the “Reference-Library” folder of your Novell delivered applications window. The library system provides title, author, subject, keyword and location information for books and websites as well as “One Search” which searches our paid, research databases.
- Access to online research databases is also provided in the same applications folder, as well as on the “home page” of District Media Center.
- Staffing varies, depending on the size and level of the school, from one half-time library media specialist at some of the smaller elementary schools to two library media specialists at Topeka High’s library media center.
- The Library Media Services curriculum, aligned with the KCCR standards, is coordinated with the individual subject area curriculums and when possible instruction is integrated with classroom activities. A five-step information problem solving model is used to guide students toward being effective users of information.
- Several district-wide support services are provided by the Media Services central office. These include professional library research services, elementary literature sets, etc.
Building Library Media Services Staff
HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
HIGHLAND PARK HIGH, 2424 SE California, 66605-1797
Lisbeth White - Media Specialist
E J Drake, Media Clerk
TOPEKA HIGH, 800 SW 10th, 66612-1687
Tonya Foster - Head Media Specialist
Jewelia Oswald - Media Specialist
TOPEKA WEST, 2001 SW Fairlawn, 66604-3598
Jessica Karns - Media Specialist
Michelle Ditmore, Media Clerk
HOPE STREET ACADEMY, 1900 SW Hope St., 66604-3599
Elise Blas, ½ time - Media Specialist
Avondale Academy, 200 SE 40th Street, 66609
MIDDLE SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
CHASE, 2250 NE State Street, 66616-1390
CAITLIN SCHWANKE - Media Specialist
EISENHOWER, 3305 SE Minnesota, 66605-2500
Vacancy filled with Substitute
FRENCH, 5257 SW 33rd, 66614-4099
KELLY KELLEY - Media Specialist
JARDINE, 2600 SW 33rd, 66611-1883
DANA FITZGERALD - Media Specialist
LANDON, 731 SW Fairlawn, 66606-2336
Delmy Orellana - Media Specialist
ROBINSON, 1125 SW 14th, 66604-2996
NICOLE BROKAR - Media Specialist
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
HIGHLAND PARK CENTRAL, 2717 SE Illinois, 66605-1497
Morgan Garbo - Media Specialist
JARDINE ELEMENTARY, 2600 SW 33rd t, 66611-1883
Debra McCann - Media Specialist
LOWMAN HILL, 1101 SW Garfield, 66604-1349
Jana Toillion, ½ time -
Krista Bonzo, ½ time Media Para -
McCARTER, 5512 SW 16th, 66604-2271
Marissa Harris, ½ time Media Para -
McCLURE, 2529 SW Chelsea Dr., 66614-1600
, ½ time -
Krista Bonzo, ½ time Media Para -
McEACHRON, 4433 SW 29th Terr., 66614-3199
Melissa Williamson - Media Specialist
MEADOWS, 201 SW Clay, 66606-1194
Karin Thompson - Media Specialist
Bridgette Martin, ½ time Media Para -
QUINCY, 1500 NE Quincy, 66608-1264
Jana Toillion - Media Specialist
RANDOLPH, 1400 SW Randolph, 66604-2600
ROSS, 1400 SE 34th, 66605-2684
Jessica Kubie - Media Specialist
SCOTT, 401 SE Market, 66607-2076
Brenda Orellana - Media Specialist
Robin Lampe, ½ time Media Para
STATE STREET, 500 NE Sumner, 66616-1391
Elizabeth Anderson, Media Specialist
WHITSON, 1725 SW Arnold, 66604-3300
Alisha Schwinn -Media Specialist
WILLIAMS, 1301 SE Monroe, 66612-116
Amy Gugelman -Media Specialist