About the Stargate Library
Stargate Library will be a centralized, friendly, comfortable environment and quality resource for the entire Stargate community, that will assist all patrons in locating and obtaining resources quickly and efficiently through digital, local and state sources.
The Library is open every school day, a half hour before school, through the lunch/recess time and half hour after school, for reading and study or other quiet endeavors. Whether you are student, staff or parent, we can help!
- Books - find one or many - fiction or non-fiction - in this Library, throughout the school district, in local or even state libraries. Library holds 11,000 volumes listed in searchable on-line catalog
- Research - there are many resources in the Library which have not yet been tapped and there's so much more to on-line research than Google and Wikipedia
- Guidance on Fair Use, plagiarism and citations available.
- Information on Gifted and Talented issues, classroom materials and differentiation resources.
- Assistance with the use of the Stargate Website and Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, feeds, and social networking bookmarks
- Internet safety tips/strategies available for all ages.
- A safe, quiet and study space open from half an hour before school to half an hour after school ends, every day. Also open through lunch times for quiet activities.
- Instruction in effective Library skills and behavior for all grade levels.
- Six patron computers available for homework or academic research - drop in or schedule ahead.
- Coordinate S.W.A.T. team (Student Workers Assisting Technology)
- Coordinate the Stargate Founders Conference.
Valicia McPherson
Information Resource Coordinator
About me: I have been involved with Stargate since the school's inception when I coordinated all the hiring for the first three years. I left the school for five years, and returned with my youngest son in 2003. I spent two years volunteering in the Library and serving as the school's historian before accepting a full time position here. This will be my third year running the Library. Other than books, I am passionate about the collaborative potential of the Web.