New Jersey High School Wins National Library Media Program of the Year

Staff -- School Library Journal, 8/1/1998

The Instructional Media Center at Flemington, NJ's Hunterdon Central Regional High School has been named the 1998 National School Library Media Program of the Year. The award, with a $5,000 prize donated by Follett Library Resources, is administered by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), a division of the American Library Association.

In a letter announcing the award, David Loertscher, chair of the AASL committee that presented it, reflected on their visit to Hunterdon. He wrote that the Hunterdon IMC program "explodes the myth that 'it doesn't take money to create a quality education,' and an equally devastating myth that 'access to the Internet is the only information tool students and teachers need.'"

Hunterdon was honored in the category for single schools that exist as a school district. No awards were granted this year in the small and large-district categories.