Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Art Prints Decorate Hew Library The Berkeley High School library became more and more visual last year, announced Mrs. Carol Kalamaras, assistant librarian. Mrs. Kalamaras elaborated, saying that the addi- tion of 40 or 50 art prints to the library emphasized some of the literary aspects which tie in with art. The prints, bought with the $200 raised from last year ' s student art work sale, were from various periods in history illustrating the art forms contem- porary with great literary works. Miss Nova Bartlett, who was the art department chairman before she retired last year, coordinated the art sale and bought the picturs. Mrs. Kalamaras expected to recieve from the Elementary and Secon- dary Educational Act an additional $100 with which to buy more prints. The prints were on display in the library and in various rooms throughout the school. On the suggestion of Mr. John Barnes, BHS English instructor, Mrs. Kalamaras started an Art Print of the Week. 29 — Photos by Chris Hum (left) Mrs. Larissa Rulofson, Head Librarian, right, attends to Roger Heilman at the counter of the BHS Library. The library has many new facilities, including a stack area for non-fiction books, and an enlarged reference section, in which is contained a number of art books. The library also has several classrooms which may be used by the library, or by classes doing work in the library. Above, Mrs. Carol Kalamaras, Assistant Librarian, explains library facilities and procedures to 10th graders, in one of the library classrooms.

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— Photos by Chris Hum The BHS Library is well used by students as a study center. It contains many facilities, such as the Reader ' s Guide and a magazine section which students find quite useful for research. Librarians (left to right) Mrs. Louise Wheeler, Mrs. Ann Wilbur, and Mrs. Louise Caswell are checking out books. Mrs. Caswell checks out for one period books that have been reserved by teachers for their classes. 28 Many New Goals for Library Set During the Past Year Berkeley High ' s librarians, Mrs. Larissa Rulofson and Mrs. Carol Kala- maras, said they set many new goals for the library this past year. The most im- portant ones for the near future are to increase the book collection from 15,000 to 30,000 volumes, to add audio-visual materials and equipment, and to extend the library instructional program. In the audio-visual field the librarians say that they hope to obtain microfilms which would make it possible to store a back file of magazines for ten years. A collection of records, tapes and film- strips, available to all students and de- partments of the school, will be started and housed in the library. They say they hope a copying and duplicating ma- chine will be added to the library equip- ment by next year. Under the library instructional pro- gram Mrs. Rulofson and Mrs. Kalamaras say they hope to involve as many de- partments and students in the school as possible so that each students learns to utilize the library to its full potential.

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Instructional Materials Center Is Newest Addition to BHS The Instructional Materials Center is a new depart- ment. It was organized and used this last year. The purpose of the center is to buy, create or produce audio and visual tools to aid teachers. These teach- ing tools are materials that the student can see or hear that will help him to better understand the con- cepts presented in the classroom. The Center, which is located in a corner of the Electronics room G 201 is in charge of Mr. Alvin Garcia, who planned it and supervised its installation. Many tools such as reproducing machines, type- writers, tape recorders, closed-circuit television, films and photographic equipment are to be found there. There are cabinets full of nuts, bolts, beads, screws and the like and files full of idea materials. At this Center, ideas for new teaching aids were developed and improved. Occasionally students helped in the building of the aids. However, the Cen- ter was designed for teacher use. The materials made were those that could not be purchased more cheaply through commercial sources. Those generally pro- duced were photos, blueprints, charts, tapes, dittos, film clips, slides, three-dimensional structures and transparencies. The closed-circuit TV was the most useful and time- saving device. Because of it, all the students in a class could easily see the precise work the teacher was demonstrating. This saved time because the teacher didn ' t have to repeat the demonstration. Several cameras were placed in key positions around the room and the teacher spoke into a wireless micro- phone. A similar effect was achieved by the use of projectors of various kinds. These included, in addition to 16 mm movie projec- tors, overhead projectors, slide and film strip projec- tors, 8 mm single concept desk top projectors and opaque projectors. — Photo buy Howard Coleston Audio-visual supervisor Mr. Alvin Garcia at work figuring the budget for the new instructional materials center which he planned. Small portable tape recorders and a wide range of tapes greatly expanded the homework field. Students could take the recorders home and listen to dramatic readings, operas and other audio material at their leisure. This gave the teachers more time for cl ass instruction. Teachers were able to conduct two lessons at once as some students would use headphones and listen to tapes while the rest would listen undisturbed to the teacher. Specialized typewriters and reproducing machines made pos- sible many new techniques. One typewriter is equipped with large type that is necessary for clearly projecting transparencies onto a screen. Another has the symbols used in German, Span- ish, French, Science and Mathematics. The reproducing machine makes copies and transparencies without a stencil. A complete photography laboratory and studio will be in- stalled in a wing of the Center. This will include cameras, light- ing equipment, developing tanks, print-making and photocopy- ing machines, print dryers and other paraphernalia. This section will be used extensively by the Center ' s staff and open for pro- fessional use. € O ■ o D- V FUTURE PHOTO LAB £ DARKROOM O INSTRUCTIONAL .. MATERIAL CEW7£ TS 1 FUTURE SERVICE REPAIR l FLOOR PLAN, ROOM G20I BEREFT N )] HIGH SCHOOL AUDIO VISUAL CENTER