Hartford Public Library and the city school system have developed a new partnership that will allow students and teachers to use the library’s resources more extensively for education and instruction, officials said Wednesday.
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Superintendent Christina Kishimoto said there is “overlap in our missions” to educate Hartford students and engage families. “It only makes sense that a school system and the local library system and the city work together,” she said.
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[Our emphasis] Mary Hooker [Environmental Sciences Magnet School] Principal Peter Dart said his school has a paid subscription for an online encyclopedia service that the Hartford Public Library offers for free on its website.
“We’re already saying, ‘Let’s not do that, because that’s a duplication of services,'” Dart said Wednesday at the Goodwin branch. “That’s going to save us money and allow us to invest in our own library.”
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The library has partnered with city schools in the past. The Mark Twain branch is currently housed at Hartford Public High School’s media center, where there are library-managed after-school programs.
A New Public Library-Public Schools Partnership Announced in Hartford, Connecticut
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About Gary PriceGary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
