🌟 Welcome to the Durham Middle School Library Learning Commons! 🌟

🏆 Proud winner of the GLMA 2021 Judy Seritella Exemplary Library Media Program Award!

We are a flexible, student-centered space built for collaboration, creativity, and innovative thinking.

✨ We offer:
• Spaces to make, explore, experiment, and learn
• Digital tools + resources that boost student success
• A librarian who partners with teachers and leads digital learning
• A schedule that stays flexible so students can create, think, and grow

Library Media Specialist, Mrs. Erin Baker

Library Media Paraprofessional, Ms. Kate McFadden

MISSION

📚 Our Library Learning Commons is the heart of the school — a dynamic space where teachers + library staff = powerful learning. Everything we do supports the mission to boost student achievement through strong partnerships, reliable resources, and a welcoming environment for all.

👩‍🏫 Meet Your LMS Team:
• Mrs. Baker, school librarian, teacher leader, co-planner, co-teacher, and digital literacy guide
• Ms. Kate McFadden, library paraprofessional and champion of all things library

💡 Together, we empower students with tech, print, and digital tools — and keep our library spaces growing and evolving to meet your needs.

✨ One Team. One Goal. Student Success.
And the Library Learning Commons is all in.

VISION
🧨We’re here to spark curiosity and support every learner. Our goal? To empower students to become lifelong readers, ethical information users, smart media consumers, independent thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and informed global citizens — all through the resources, services, and engaging experiences we offer every day.

LIBRARY COLLECTION

📚 Explore the Durham Library Learning Commons!

• 7,500+ print books and thousands of eBooks & audiobooks
• Access even more titles through EBSCOhost & Sora by OverDrive
• New books added all the time!

💻 Tech & Creativity Spaces:
• Desktop computers & printers for student use
• A Creation Station with supplies to spark curiosity, inquiry, and creativity

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