Branford Public Schools
Francis Walsh Intermediate School Branford, CT

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We're All Smiles!

Walsh Library Media Center 

It All Comes Together Here!     

The Library Media program at Walsh provides students the opportunity to become effective users of information by:

  • developing their skills, knowledge, literacy to solve complex issues
  • inspiring them to be life-long learners
  • promoting reading enjoyment
  • ability to access a variety of libraries and resources in all formats

The library media specialists are collaborative educational partners with classroom  teachers providing students with numerous opportunities to use a variety of diverse information resources to achieve curriculum standards for 21st century learning.

There are several popular resources students use as part of the Library Media Program.  Check out some of these links!  

Additional links for Nutmeg Award and Citation Machine can be found by clicking  word "Links" above.  Check "Files" for research organizers and tools. 

 Nutmeg 2010 Results!

Connecticut voted!

Nutmeg Book Award 2010- the winners are:

Intermediate:  Double Identity by Margaret Haddix

Teen:  Life As We Knew it by Susan Pfeiffer

 

 

 Readers' Choice Survey

Click the above link (Readers' Choice Survey) to complete a brief survey about each book you have read!  It may help others decide what to read next!

             

http://www.iconn.org/

On-line resources provided by the State of Connecticut.   Biographies, Health, Science, History Resources from newspapers, magazines, books.

 

http://go-passport.grolier.com/splash 

Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia including current events from Associated Press.

 

 

http://www.blackstone.lioninc.org/

View local Blackstone Library to access electronic catalog to reserve or even renew a book, CD, DVD.

 

http://www.wwml.org/index.htm  

 

View local Willoughby Wallace Library to access electronic catalog to reserve or even renew a book, CD, DVD.