Libraries & Technology

Overview

The collections and services of The Key School libraries support the School's Mission. Committed to the principles of intellectual freedom, all three libraries maintain rich resources that... Read More

In the Libraries

  • Picturing America Grant

    Students use Mary Cassatt's "The Boating Party" as inspiration for a creative writing exercise

    Awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association, this grant has provided Key School with twenty double-sided laminated posters of great American works of art which will be used throughout the School both as displays and as teaching tools.

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  • What is Peace?

    After listening toVladimir Radunsky's What Does Peace Feel Like? in library classes, third graders offered the following insights:
    What is Peace? (PowerPoint presentation, 42,401KB)

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  • Georgetown Conference on Academic Integrity

    When the Georgetown University Honor Council invited high schools to participate in its 2007 Conference on Academic Integrity and the Transition to College on November 16, Upper School students and faculty from Key responded enthusiastically.

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  • Wish List Table Donations Greatly Appreciated

    The Library Department thanks the community for the generous donation of the following books purchased at the Barnes and Noble Book Fair:

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  • A Successful Night at Barnes and Noble

    Many thanks to everyone who helped make this year’s Barnes and Noble Book Fair such a success. The School earned $3,612, twenty percent of the evening’s gross total, which will be used to update and refurbish the Ford K. Brown Library.

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In The Gallery

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Barnes & Noble Book Fair 2007

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Downloads

Suggestions for Good Middle School Literature
Barnes & Noble Gift Card Order Form
Internet Safety Resources

Highlights

  • Internet Safety—Raising Kids in a Digital World

    Robin Raskin addresses parents
    Middle and Upper School Parent Education Program

    Blogging, MySpace, Facebook, and Instant Messaging are all available to our children and may present risks.

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  • The Information Age

    As a thought-provoking introduction to an Upper School parent education forum on technology and media literacy, Upper School librarian Nancy Fitch shared the following: How pervasive is technology in the Key School’s Upper School curriculum?

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  • Manse Renovation Sparks Lower School Research Project

    A fourth grade student displays photographs of the Manse taken in the early 1900s

    With the Manse renovation well underway at the start of this school year, all members of the Key community began to catch glimpses of how the original mansion, with its expansive wrap-around porch, actually looked.

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  • Media Wise: Decoding the Message

    Four members of Key's Library and Technology Department took their expertise on the road to the 2005 AIMS Fall Conference, where they jointly presented Media Wise: Decoding the Message, a program detailing the introduction of a media literacy curriculum for Middle and Upper School students.

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  • Emphasis on Media Literacy

    Library and Technology Chair Marilyn Meyerson talks with parents

    "Media literacy," says Marilyn Meyerson, Chair of the Library and Technology Department at Key School, "is the ability to think critically about all forms of media and to have insight into the implications of what we see and hear in the media, whether it be advertising, television, the Internet, music, or any other form of public communication."

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