Media Services

The Friendship Valley Media Center is open to all students, staff, and families of the Friendship Valley community from 7:25am until 3:00pm daily. Students have weekly book checkout with their homeroom teachers on their assigned media day. Students are welcome to come to the media center for additional book checkouts throughout the week during appropriate times as decided by classroom teachers.

Mrs. Towns collaborates with classroom teachers in an effort to provide support for classroom instruction and curricular support through the use of media skills. Every student has an assigned 35 minute media class during the week. However, many students visit the media center for additional instruction and research opportunities as needed throughout the school year.

The Friendship Valley Media Center has 9 computer search stations that provide students and staff access to the Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). OPAC is a computer program that is used to locate materials within the FVE media collection as well as to check the availability of such materials. Friendship Valley Elementary also has a mobil computer lab of 14 wireless laptop computers that is used for media instruction and is also available for classroom instruction.

In addition to media instruction, the media center is available for small group research, individual instruction, and special activities on a request basis by classroom teachers. The media center has three instructional areas, a research area, and a TV production studio.