O'Rourke Library & Learning Center
Looking for an academic workout?
Spend time in one of the most interesting corners of BFHS
Today's library at BFHS is Just over 8,000 square feet of space but the walls fell away years ago. Our library is not as much about warehousing content as it is about limitless exposure to ideas.
Workshops, displays, new acquisitions and learning events keep the place interesting and always full of surprises. Students from all grades with an unlimited range of interests and passions come together every day to define what we mean when we refer to the O'Rourke Library and Learning Center.
Life Long Learning aka Information Literacy Skills
Each week the library staff engages in Professional Development Activities that relate to the use of technology as a tool for education, what's new in the world of publishing, staying attuned to existing resources and new format options and much more.
High on the priority list is the library workshop program that engages students in every grade level and in all subject areas. Information handling skills are developed incrementally through familiarizing students with IT tools like NoodleTools which helps with organizing research, capturing notes, linking evidence to ideas and learning the nuances of using MLA citations and TurnItIn software designed to coach students in complicated subject areas like plagiarism. Learning the difference between a magazine and a journal, how to make choices from long lists of retrieved articles when doing database searches and understanding the influences of time and point of view on content are only some of the themes of library student workshops.
Just in time tips and tricks from the library staff help students to stay in front of the challenges technology sometimes presents. Structured practice and time-on-task guide students through developing awareness and decision making around complicated issues like the ethical, legal and social uses of information for the 21st Century while one-on-one interactions step students through what they need to know and practice to keep the idea of service in their National Honors membership,
Some of our best features
Library Displays
Quick Check-in
Path to Academic Success
What would Emerson say?
" When the artist has exhausted his materials, when the fancy no longer paints, when thoughts are no longer apprehended, and books are a weariness, — he has always the resource to live. Character is higher than intellect. " ---from his essay American Scholar
Cross Country & Track Winter 2015-16
Cross Country is run in the fall season from August to November. Home meets are held on the course located on campus. Winter Track runs its meets at the Reggie Lewis center in Boston. The Season runs from December to March. Spring Track runs from March to June. Home meets are held on the James Brady Track.
For more information please contact Mr. Czarnecki at sjc@fenwick.org
Tutoring & Homework Help
Arrangements for tutoring are made through the library's collaboration with the Guidance Department to assist individual students on a regular basis or as needed. The help is designed to lend support to individual students in the following areas: subject specific or general academic work and when appropriate to organize and facilitate focused study groups. For more information, please contact Mr. Czarnecki at sjc@fenwick.org
National Honors Society
This group is committed to academic excellence and the development of leadership and character and membership applications are extended to those with qualifying G.P.A. An essential element of the National Honor Society is service to the school and to the community. The National Honor Society meets the 1st Wednesday of every month during the academic year. For more information please contact Mr. Czarnecki at sjc@fenwick.org
The Fenwick Book Club
Ask a librarian
Email: dms@fenwick.org
Website: http://www.fenwick.org
Location: 99 Margin Street, Peabody, MA, United States
Phone: 978-587-8350