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Lake Highland Preparatory School has 3 Media Centers with one in each of our Upper, Middle and Lower Schools. Read more about them below.
Click here for Card Catalog & Databases.
Upper School Media Center
The Upper School Media Center is located in the Calkins Library building. The Media Center is open Monday-Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A full-time librarian and library assistant are available to help students in grades 6-12 locate materials for research projects, class assignments and recreational reading. Students in 6th-12th grade can borrow from the Upper School and Middle School collections. Together these collections contain over 12,000 books. Titles can be accessed online: library.lhps.org. Books may be borrowed for three weeks. The Upper School Media Center subscribes to ten online databases (which include full-text articles from periodicals, journals, encyclopedias, books, e books and newspapers) and 40 print journals / magazines. The Upper School Library Computer Lab has 21 PCs and there are 50 laptops available for student use (within the Calkins Library building). Students are each assigned their own account. They can access the internet and printer (to print in color, please ask for assistance). Students with their own laptops have internet and printer access through a wireless hub. There is a photocopier for student use (10¢ per copy).
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The Hope and Bill Roll Center for Media & Technology
(Middle School Media Center)
Lake Highland Preparatory School Middle School is proud to house the
Hope and Bill Roll Center for Media & Technology, which combines
state-of-the-art research technology with traditional book lending and
hands-on reference resources. The Middle School Media Center is designed
to integrate with the campus-wide wireless network, to distribute our
media resources into the classroom, and even at home.
Our services include:
On-site reference collection selected to support and enhance the middle
school curriculum.
A comfortably furnished young-adult reading room designed to encourage
LHPS Middle School students to browse, sit, and read.
Online catalogue access to the LHPS Upper School Media Center, providing
online check-out and same-day delivery of over 11,200 titles.
10 state-of-the-art online reference databases, provide access to an
expansive selection of books and research articles, accessible from the
media center, the classroom, and home.
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Lower School Media Center
The Hardy M. "Hank" Snow Lower School Library is located in the Bradshaw
Building. Hours of operation are 7:40 am to 3:30 pm Monday through
Friday. Students in Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade use the library
throughout the week. Students come to the library as a class or on an
individual basis. The collection contains approximately 14,000 titles
including books and videos which can be accessed through our
computerized card catalog. The Lower School Library has 11 student
computers that are used for Accelerated Reader Quizzes, Internet access,
connection to online reference subscriptions, as well as the library
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