Media Center

Spring Hill Middle School IMC
The SHMS Library or Instructional Media Center (IMC) houses all types of educational AV equipment and materials as well as over 14,500 books and magazines for informational and leisure reading for students and staff. The media center has flexible scheduling, which allows students and staff to use the library at any time and enables classes to have more flexible times when signing up for research. The IMC is completely automated with four online public access catalogs or OPAC stations. Seating capacity is about sixty.

The IMC serves more than 550 patrons each year and circulates, on the average, 45 items per patron during the school year. Each year the library handles around 20,000 transactions. All six-grade students come to the library at least once a week, usually on Thursdays, with their language arts teachers in order to check out books. The library is also open each day during homeroom for students to check out as well as after school.

Entrance and OPAC Stations
Students are allowed to have three books checked out at a time but are given special permission to check out more if needed for research. Reference material and magazines may be checked out for three days and books may be checkout for three weeks. Students may renew items up to three times.

Library Media Specialists
Miss Sims is the librarian/media specialist and has been employed at SHMS for 21 years. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Education at Pittsburg State University and Master’s Degree in Library Science and Information Management from Emporia State University.

Mrs. Sobotka is the library aide. This is her 8th year in that position and her 16th year with the school district.