Dotty Cook - Media Specialist

          Our Media Center is the hub of the learning circle at Merritt Brown.  We provide the students with reference materials, reading materials, periodicals and technology to assist them in their learning.  

         The School's Instructional Television Program is a function of the Media Center.  We produce a morning announcements program called "Bear Country Today" using a   student crew.  The crew writes, directs, and produces our program each morning.

          The Media Center is also the office primarily responsible for installing, upgrading, and maintaining the school's 250+ computers and the school's computer network.  Also, the Media Center maintains its own computer center of 14 PCs.  It is used for research, Internet, STAR testing, typing and all of the other normal middle school computer projects...

          All of Merritt Brown's classrooms are network cabled and fully operational.  All teachers and students have Internet access in their classrooms.  Our goal for the future is five computers per classroom - all up and running on the Net.

          Our Library's primary method of accounting for and controlling our inventory of books and equipment is Athena.