Learning Resource Center
"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library."
Albert Einstein
LRC Hours
Monday - Friday
8:10 a.m. - 3:10 p.m.
If you have questions, contact LRC Director Collette Campasano at ccampasano@sd308.org
book lists
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book lists
Rebecca Caudill
The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award was developed to encourage children and young adults to read for personal satisfaction. It is an Illinois award for outstanding literature for young people.
Caldecott Medal Books
The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.Newbery Award Winning Books
The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.Children's Choice Book Awards
Children's Choices has been a joint project of the International Reading Association (IRA) and The Children's Book Council since 1975. Publishers submit about 700 titles to be evaluated and voted on by 10,000 children. Throughout the school year, five review teams, located in different regions of the United States, work with their local classroom teachers and school librarians to incorporate the books into classroom activities.music
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music
- ccMixter ccMixter is an international community of 40,000 musicians. We create all original pells and samples and then co-create completed tracks collaboratively — all licensed under Creative Commons. You can listen to, sample, and interact with our music.
- Free Music Archive
The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America.
- Freeplay Music
15,000 songs, free music for YouTube and more.
- National Jukebox
The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
- The Freesound Project
Freesound is a collaborative database of Creative Commons Licensed sounds. Browse, download and share sounds.
meet the lms
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meet the lms
Just before graduating from Saint Xavier University, Chicago, with a bachelor of arts in English and a minor in education, I was fortunate to be hired by School District 308 in1994. As a teacher at Thompson Junior High, I taught seventh grade speech, eighth grade composition, and eighth grade drama for two years. I completed my master’s degree in teaching at Aurora University, Aurora, Ill., in 1998. As the blocked language arts class was created, I moved to seventh grade language arts, which I taught for six years. While supervising in the learning center, I realized how much I enjoyed it and received my school library media endorsement from Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, in 2002. Thompson’s learning resource center (LRC) position opened in 2002, and I spent the next 10 years as Thompson Junior High’s LRC director. I started an exciting new chapter as LRC director at Murphy Junior High in 2012. This is my 18th year as an LRC director and my 26th school year in District 308.
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