Re: I'm not surprised, I've seen enough American movies and TV shows to realize that.
Syrina Send a noteboard - 12/09/2009 02:36:33 AM
Some are connected to the city library system as well. Decentralization of books isnt something I necessarily like. But libraries make for good study areas and sometimes have really nice old books that smell lovely. I'm surprised you're surprised. Go watch The Breakfast Club to see an awesome high school library.
But yes, I've never understood it in those movies or TV shows either. What can a school library offer that a city library can't? Study areas, sure, but a study hall will do that job just as well. In primary school it might be useful to have a limited number of books for students who work faster or whatnot, but in a HS, where letting students read books during classes isn't really done (as far as I'm aware, it isn't here anyway), I don't see the point.
School libraries are structured to support the curriculum, whereas public libraries contain a more general collection that meets the needs of a larger community.
For example, a public library might carry a few books on say, literary criticism, but they might have one for every major area: American, British, Modernism, non-European, etc. A high that has English classes concentrating on British and American literature (mine did at any rate - Am. Lit my Junior year and British my senior year) will concentrate on literary criticism in those two areas - because that is what the students will be studying.
It's not only for pleasure reading, but for research. Most high school (and college and university for that matter) libraries are going to focus more on the non-fiction research collection than the fiction collection, except where that supports the curriculum, like Accelerated Reader books.
Prep School deems books an "outdated technology"
11/09/2009 04:00:08 PM
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I find this awesome.
11/09/2009 04:27:54 PM
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I think this may mark the first time you and I have completely agreed on a subject. *NM*
11/09/2009 05:54:49 PM
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I think they should have done both.
11/09/2009 04:36:53 PM
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I thought about making a post, but it would be a poor version of this one. I agree completely. *NM*
11/09/2009 07:21:29 PM
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I'd be shocked, except that I'm not sure why a HS needs a library in the first place.
11/09/2009 06:01:44 PM
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Most high schools have libraries.
11/09/2009 07:13:37 PM
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I'm not surprised, I've seen enough American movies and TV shows to realize that.
11/09/2009 07:23:15 PM
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Re: I'm not surprised, I've seen enough American movies and TV shows to realize that.
12/09/2009 02:36:33 AM
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I think this is probably a good decision.
11/09/2009 06:14:28 PM
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For colleges it's a very different story, imho.
11/09/2009 06:24:47 PM
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Re: For colleges it's a very different story, imho.
11/09/2009 06:41:20 PM
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You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here.
11/09/2009 07:25:12 PM
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Yes. No one writing directly from wikipedia should BE in college.
11/09/2009 07:30:47 PM
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Re: You're betraying your lack of humanities (ha!) here.
12/09/2009 02:48:34 AM
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*gives you a scanner and a keyboard* Have fun.
12/09/2009 04:57:58 AM
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Re: cool, thanks for the free scanner, but...
12/09/2009 11:01:22 PM
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They still have physical classrooms, and they're whining about "outdated technology"? Pfft. *NM*
11/09/2009 06:32:25 PM
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Appalling.
11/09/2009 07:16:13 PM
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Yeah, you can actually. Have you tried curling up with an eBook reader?
11/09/2009 09:05:16 PM
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Just because you're unnaturally attuned to "new" things doesn't mean everyone is.
13/09/2009 12:59:19 AM
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Re: Prep School deems books an "outdated technology"
12/09/2009 01:00:48 PM
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I agree, but students going to a prep school probably don't have financial problems. *NM*
12/09/2009 11:31:53 PM
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Some Prep School, and some students, hence "Some Prep School. "
12/09/2009 02:04:38 PM
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bah, who needs to learn how to write a bibliography
12/09/2009 03:47:32 PM
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You're telling the wrong person; he has a form he wants them to observe.
12/09/2009 05:20:34 PM
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