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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.
HIGH SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
LISBETH WHITE lwhite1@tps501.org
E J Drake, Media Clerk edrake@tps501.org
SUE PATRICK spatrick@tps501.org
PEGGY QUIRIN pquirin@tps501.org
JESSICA KARNS jkarns@tps501.org
KAY USREY, Media Clerk kusrey@tps501.org
ELISE BLAS, ½ time eblas@tps501.org
MIDDLE SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
CAITLIN SCHWANKE cschwanke@tps501.org
DANA FITZGERALD dfitzgerald@tps501.org
KELLY KELLEY kkelley@tps501.org
AMY GILLILAND agilliland@tps501.org
DR. SHYLA BIJU sbiju@tps501.org
NICOLE BROKAR ldittmer@tps501.org
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALISTS
JAN STOVER jstover@tps501.org
KRISTY RAUSCH krausch@tps501.org
ITURI KINNEY, Media Para ikinney@tps501.org
JANA TOILLION, ½ time jtoillion@tps501.org
VICTORIA SOTO-LLAMAS, ½ time Media Para vllamas@tps501.org
LAURA MCDANIEL lmcdaniel@tps501.org
SIGNE SANDQUIST, ½ time Media Para ssandquist@tps501.org
JANA TOILLION, ½ time jtoillion@tps501.org
VICTORIA SOTO-LLAMAS, ½ time Media Para vllamas@tps501.org
MELISSA WILLIAMSON mwilliamson@tps501.org
TONYA FOSTER tfoster@tps501.org
STEVE FULLER, ½ time Media Para sfuller@tps501.org
ANGIE BOLEJACK-STUPKA, ½ time astupka@tps501.org
STACY HARRISON sharrison@tps501.org
TIFFANY LUTTJOHANN tluttjohann@tps501.org
TBD, ½ time, Media Para @tps501.org
TIFFANIE BEASLEY tbeasley@tps501.org
JENNIFER JACKSON, ½ time Media Para jjackson@tps501.org
JEWELIA OSWALD joswald@tps501.org
TBD, ½ time, Media Para @tps501.org
STACEY VANHOUTEN, ½ time svanhouten@tps501.org
ALISHA SCHWINN aschwinn@tps501.org
AMY GUGELMAN agugelman@tps501.org
JENNIFER JACKSON, ½ time Media Para jjackson@tps501.org