Media Specialists in the News!

This page will bring you notice of articles about Connecticut media specialists enjoying their 15 minutes of fame! If you or your program make the news, send an electronic copy or an Internet link to the webmaster for inclusion. We'll all share the glory!

Check out the back page of the March 2006 CEA Advisor. You'll see Joan Joseph of Newington High School and Karen Fecko and Mary Metheny of Glastonbury High School in front of their computers in their school media centers. The screens show the Connecticut Digital Library and the article is about teachers and students using the online periodical database.
Great full-page article and color photos on library media specialists as a link to safe, free, fast, and 24/7 Internet resources!
Bonnie Symansky, CEMA PR Chair and Rock Hill Elementary School LMS, and Julie Lavado, Highland Elementary School LMS, have another great article and photograph in the Record-Journal (serving Meriden, Southington, Cheshire, and Wallingford) on March 19, 2006. The half-page article explains their interschool blogging project on last year's and this year's Nutmeg books. The black-and-white photo shows students completing an ice-breaker activity as they get to know each other face-to-face. Both Wallingford schools are considered sister schools because they have similarly designed buildings. The same technology teacher serves both buildings and was involved in setting up the project with the LMSs.
Wonderful project promoting integration of reading and technology!
David Bilmes, media specialist at Schaghticoke Middle School in New Milford, CT, has a terrific article published in Library Media Connection magazine, February 2005, pages 28-29 - "Battle of the Books: A Step-by-Step Approach." It's a super article describing his experience organizing and running an extremely successful Battle of the Books.
An April 1, 2006, message from David recently mentioned that:
There was an article on the front page of the local section of the Waterbury Republic-American today about
how students at Long Meadow Elementary School in Middlebury are having their writing published by
Leopard's Pride Printing Press, a makeshift school supply cart that's decorated to look like a small
printing press.

"School staff members and parent volunteers use the 'printing press,' which is named after the school's
mascot, a leopard, to put the work of the students into book form."

"The program was the brainchild of kindergarten teacher Jami Richardson and Angie Groman, the school's
media specialist. They said several parents help edit the books, put them together and laminate them."
In March, the CEA Advisor (Vol. 47, No. 7) included a photo and an article about Joyce Goldberg, media specialist at the Frank T. Wheeler School, who ran a Cat in the Hat program for Read Across America. 57 guest readers participated.
A headline in the April 4th issue of the Record-Journal declared that the "School Library Isn't What It Used To Be." The article on page 22, written by Marge Tichy, media specialist at the John F. Kennedy Middle School in Plantsville, talks about Keith Curry Lance's research and the connection between student achievement and a well-stocked, professionally-staffed media center.
The News-Times for Friday, September 9, ran an article about a wonderful program organized by Sydnye Cohen, LMS at Brookfield High School. Every student in her school read the same book over the summer - The Old Country, by Mordicai Gerstein, 69, of Northampton, MA. Gerstein then came to the school speak to the students about his book, whose theme of tolerance is having an impact across all curricula.
Here's a story from the News-Times of Danbury about a computer club whose advisor is New Milford LMS Rich Kosier: <http://news.newstimeslive.com/story.php?id=76442&channel=Local>

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