page_title: Sussex Technical High School
section_title: School library
hierarchical_section_title: Sussex Technical High School / History / School library
caption_attribution_description: English: Banner awarded in 2006 at the Sussex Tech High School for Library Media Specialist of the Year by the Delaware School Library Media Association.
context_page_description: Sussex Technical High School is a public high school in Georgetown, Delaware. Its enrollment at last count was roughly 1,300 students. As a choice school, each year over 600 eighth-grade students in Sussex County apply for 300 openings. The mascot is for the school a raven.
  Also known as Sussex Tech, the school was one of two Delaware high schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2008 for academic achievement. It was previously selected by the Department of Education in 1996 as one of ten showcase site schools, receiving the New American High Schools award for high levels of success.
  The school is operated by Sussex Technical School District, an overlay district serving all of Sussex County.
context_section_description: With its full-time conversion in 1991, Sussex Tech also opened its own library and hired a librarian. This project started in a small storage room with a desk, chair, one computer and no books. It quickly filled to capacity.
  In 2000, the school opened its current library, known as the Benjamin Franklin Information Center. The new library emphasized the school's technical focus, relying on computer workstations for access to resources in external networks. Sussex Tech's library led the state of Delaware by 2007, with 75 computers available for its students.
  During 2007, the school library also became the first to implement Delaware's Statewide Library Catalog and Schoolrooms system, an interface allowing students to reserve and request books from any library in the state, and also providing online access to magazines and newspapers. Books requested from other locations through the statewide system are delivered to the school's library.
caption: Award banner, received from the Delaware School Library Media Association in 2006 by Sussex Tech's librarian, Patricia Woods (aka Patricia Birch)
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