The Creal Springs School Media Center, staffed by Mrs.
Tracy Webb
and supervised by Roxanne Price (Marion Unit 2 Elementary Media Specialist), houses the school's library and computer lab.
LIBRARY:
The CSS library has approximately 6200 books for the students (Pre-K-8) plus reference materials and magazines. The library's fiction collection includes not only current series (Magic Treehouse, Junie B. Jones, Lemony Snicket) but, also, classics (Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, C. S. Lewis, T.R.R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss). It has non-fiction books that cover all major topics from
The First Book of Facts (001.4W) to
All About the Arctic and Antarctic (998C).
The library houses the school's video collection. We have approximately 300 videos that may be used by the teachers to supplement the curriculum of the school.
COMPUTER LAB:
The CSS computer lab has a total of 14 computers for the students to use. All these computers have internet access and may be used by the students to research papers, play educational games, as well as type papers. We have several pieces of software that teachers may use to supplement their teaching including Keybo, Island Reading Journey, Kidspiration and some of the Key Skills series.
ACCELERATED READER : Grades 4-8 participate in the Accelerated Reader Program, where the students are given a selection of books that they may read and then take a test on the computer to evaluate reading comprehension. CSS has 1060 books and tests dedicated to this program ranging in reading level from 1.4 to 13.5.