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
Quick Links
Quick Links![]()
Quick Links
- Britannica Online
- Card Catalog
- Career eBooks
- Ebooks
- EBSCO
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Coupon code: Bednams182
- Enter coupon code (you only need to do this once)
- Fill out the form when prompted
- Remember your username and password!
- Start citing!
book lists
book lists![]()
book lists
images, audio and video
images, audio and video![]()
images, audio and video
Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
Getty Images: BBC Motion Gallery (use Royalty Free section)
From the BBC’s first broadcast in 1922, up to yesterday’s news, BBC Motion Gallery gives you exclusive access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of unique motion imagery. Spanning news, sport, natural history, wildlife, locations, celebrities, culture, and more, there is a wealth of content just waiting to be discovered.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
Wikimedia Commons
A database of 23,260,653 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Yale Digital Commons
Search 1,500,000 records; 250,000 digital assets from across Yale's collections.
music
music![]()
music
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.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
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
meet the lms![]()
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.
