This is the goal of the Los Alamitos High School teachers, including Kathy Foss, library media teacher. Kathy's busy desk in the center of the room places her in a great position to confer with teachers, direct student use of computerized indexes and microfiche resources, collect requests, and deal with individual questions. Student assistants and volunteer parents help to build databases of materials in the collection that may be overlooked by students using traditional search methods. Biographical information on specific individuals may,. for instance, be hidden in collections of short biographies, in sources featuring critical literary analyses, or in materials about art, music, political events, history, or cultures. It isn't unusual to see the district superintendent, administrators', board members, or parents on campus and in the library media center looking at how facilities and materials are being used and how students are doing.
Students do seem to get caught up in the game of finding and making sense of information.