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the national medal for Museum and
Library Services is the nation's highest

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honor for libraries and museums that are
serving their communities in exceptional

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ways Park View library media center
Specialists Jennifer fiser and Candace

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main rush and Community member Pablo
Rivera traveled to Washington from

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Sterling Virginia to receive the
national medal and spoke to imls about

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how the library impacts the community
well at the Parkview uh Library Media

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Center we are working on reimaging the
library into a welcoming Gathering Place

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For Students faculty and staff uh who
can come together in a atmosphere that

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Fosters academic Synergy uh Sparks
creative and critical thinking and

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inspires creativity the community that
we serve is a very diverse Community

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it's diverse culturally and it's also
diverse socioeconomically

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the Parky library media center is open
every school day from 7:45 until at

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least 5:00 at night we have school uh
hours before school and we always have

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students waiting at the door the reason
that we're open extended hours is

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because there is a need in our community
for students to have a safe place to

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come maybe early in the morning when
their parents have already left for work

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um they need to have space to finish
their projects they need to have

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computer access ESS and they seek
research assistance and assistance

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finding books to read um some students
go in there to finish work to finish

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projects have their meetings um or just
to look up some information so usually

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before and after school is used more
dedicated towards educational stuff but

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it's also used for some recreational
stuff there are board games there are

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magazines we have um art supplies we
have glue sticks uh we have scissors um

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you know we just have everything that
you might be looking for now during the

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day um there are classes that go in and
sometimes our Librarians give little um

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workshops on how to use um programs on
the internet and programs that are in

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the computers um some classes go in to
pick up books for their use in our

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library I think we have a philosophy
that is twofold I'd say we really

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concentrate on service and teaching
and so at Park viw that uh is seen in

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the way that we try to seek out whatever
needs that our Parkview Community might

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have whether that's a teacher need and a
new tool that they would like to teach

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their students and we can help them with
that or maybe it's a student need where

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they uh do not have a printer and an ink
at home and they come in in the morning

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to print out that paper that's due that
day um the other part of our philosophy

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is teaching we are uniquely placed in a
school library to bring the teaching

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aspect of all Librarians into our
practice we can find ourselves working

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one-on-one with a student at a computer
teaching them how to use software to

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site their resources for example um but
we also have the opportunity to teach

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whole classes we are a very Lively
Library uh we have lots of activity lots

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of interaction we know that students
learn through social interaction and so

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we Foster that social interaction we
don't shush them which is not to say

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there aren't quiet areas of the library
where students can go if they need quiet

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space to study uh but we just have a lot
of uh student groups coming in to do

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projects students doing their individual
projects teachers meeting with students

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uh during the day and before and after
school we have two programs that we have

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developed that are morning concert
series and it started with guitars on

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the go uh which consists of guitars
percussion voice sometimes keyboards and

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it was so popular the first year that we
did it that we branched out and decided

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to have two Series so now every Thursday
morning in November before school we

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have Multicultural Ensemble is called
world view world view is the guitar

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Ensemble made up of Parkview students
and it's often joined by other faculty

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members who who join in and jam with
drums or guitars or their own instrument

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struments and it's just become very
popular to uh have these concerts in the

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morning when students arrive off the
buses they see what's going on they hear

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the music out in the halls and they
start gathering in groups and sometimes

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they start dancing and it's just been a
really wonderful program to have at

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Parkview Library I think that the
students know that they can come to us

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for things big and small um and things
traditional and not traditional if they

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know that they can come to a librarian
to help find a book

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but I think at Park View they know they
can come to a librarian to help

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proofread their paper if if they need
that type of adult support so we're

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there for whatever they might need when
you're looking for a space where it's

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welcoming where you feel at home you
really find it at the library as soon as

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you walk in they'll greet you not not
just by a handshake or just by a simple

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hay just with the genuine smile and you
know it's that warm smile that lets you

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feel at home so so um I mean that that
feeling you it's it's definitely a

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unique feeling that you get when you go
there