Libraries - The Wardlaw + Hartridge School
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Libraries
The Wardlaw+Hartridge School has two libraries for our students, faculty and staff: The Sonawalla Center for Global Learning and the Lower Snowdon Lower School Library. Our libraries are modern workspaces to address how students learn today. Flexible and adaptable library spaces support varied instructional techniques, promote student collaboration, and enhance online and face-to-face communication. In addition to research tools, a richly diverse literature collection and large virtual periodical collection, the libraries are intentional spaces of collaboration.  As students, faculty and staff engage in the Information Age, literacy skills include that of information, media and technology literacy. These skills play an important role in how students adapt to the ever-evolving world more effectively. The Libraries of The Wardlaw+Hartridge School are a part of the Technology & Media Services Department intentionally connecting these influential elements of academic success.
Sonawalla Center for Global Learning
Lower Snowdon Lower School Library
The Sonawalla Center for Global Learning is located in the Upper Snowdon Library. In addition to print materials housed in the stacks, the space includes individual and small group study areas, digital research resources, video teleconferencing and streaming facility, with the flexibility to include new technologies as they emerge.  The Center for Global Learning allows spaces where students work alone in individualized research stations or work cooperatively in different sized groups in either open areas or in smaller, private breakout rooms. A designated mediascape room allows for our students to connect with people all over the world. Because research is continually changing, the landscape of the Center for Global Learning has become a virtual library. An online academic library currently includes annual subscription databases such as Journal Storage (JStor), Project Muse, and many others to keep current the research information and provide ready access for all students and faculty.
The Lower Snowdon Lower School Library serves students every day of the school year.  Students in Pre-Kindergarten through Fifth Grade visit the library once a week for scheduled book exchanges.  This space is a vibrant, warm environment that is designed specifically for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through Five. This print-rich environment provides opportunities for our Lower School students to enjoy literacy in an inspiring space.  Students in Grades One through Five visit the library once a week for scheduled book exchanges, yet they are able to choose from the catalog at any time in the week.
Lower Snowdon is also used as a gathering space for the Early Childhood and Lower School students throughout the school year.  Redesigned in 2018, this space is a vibrant, flexible library with a collection appropriate to the grades it serves.  Literacy is critical to academic excellence, and a warm, inviting library space, for the youngest pioneering thinkers, is key to engaging a love of books an life-long learning. Modern and flexible, Lower Snowdon allows students to live in such a space.
LOWER SNOWDON LIBRARY
CENTER FOR GLOBAL LEARNING
Kristin Lambertsen
Head Librarian
ONLINE RESOURCES