Local Library Visit By Bus 4

Local Library Visit By Bus 4: Hellenic American Education Foundation. Athens College – Psychiko College Library and “J.M. Carras” Kindergarten Library and Hellenic American Education Foundation. Athens College Elementary School Library and Psychiko College Elementary School Library

Time: 08:00-12:00

Hellenic American Education Foundation. Athens College – Psychiko College Library and “J.M. Carras” Kindergarten Library

Type of library: School library for Junior High and High School

Postal address: 15, Stefanou Delta, Psychiko, 154 52 Athens, Greece

Distance from Congress venue: 5.5 km

Meeting point: Megaron Athens International Conference Center

Optimal route: by bus

A volunteer will be waiting for you at the proposed meeting point.

The Hellenic American Educational Foundation is a non-profit educational institution, established in 1925, that operates two schools – Athens College and Psychiko College with a total number of about 3.500 students. Each school has an elementary school, a junior high and a high school. Psychiko College also runs an I. B. Program. The institution also has a kindergarten and various other educational programs.

The mission of the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation is to provide, by international standards, the highest quality education and to cultivate in its students those habits of mind, body, and spirit necessary for responsible citizenship in Greece and the world; moral courage, intellectual discipline, compassion, and an unswerving devotion to justice, truth and social responsibility.

The Athens College – Psychico College Library is the oldest active school library in Greece. Its first books were purchased in 1930. As of 1964, the Library is housed in its own building, approximately 1000 sq. meters in size, on the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation’s Psychico campus. It serves the students (7^th to 12^th grades), the faculty and the alumni of both schools,

Its collection includes approximately 70,000 books, 600 magazine titles, subscriptions to databases, as well as many CDs, DVDs and other items. The reading room has study spaces and carrels that can accommodate approximately 200 persons and offers the use of 45 computers. To support student research projects the Library’s facilities also include four seminar rooms that are equipped with a total of 36 computers, 60 laptops and special equipment for audiovisual projections.

The Library is a lending library for students, staff and alumni of Athens College and Psychico College. It is open to the general public as a reading library. All users have access to photocopy facilities and printers.

The Library has a strong program in information literacy. Through lessons in information literacy as well as the assignment of project work, students are taught the process of research, evaluation and utilization of information, and delivery of a final “product.” Information literacy provides them with the necessary skills and critical thinking for their higher education studies in Greece, in Europe and in the United States. The Library is staffed with 11 librarians.

The Library of the J.M. Carras” Kindergarten Library was established in 2014, has a collection of 5.000 volumes in a lovely space and offers many educational programs. It is located in the same campus as the Athens College – Psychico library and one could combine both libraries during the visit.

Hellenic American Education Foundation. Athens College Elementary School Library and Psychiko College Elementary School Library

Type of library: Elementary School Libraries

Postal address: Palaiopanagias ave., Kantza, Greece

Distance from Congress venue: 30.0 km

Athens College and Psychiko College Elementary School Libraries are two separate libraries that are located on the same hill in Kantza, Attica, a short distance from the airport.

They each serve a student population of about 1.000 students and their teachers. A library hour is included in the weekly curriculum of the students (grades 1^st to 6^th). The total collection of the two libraries numbers about 45.000 volumes. Each has about 28 computers to support student research and student research projects. The strength of the libraries focuses on their information literacy program and their program to promote reading. Authors, illustrators and animators visit the libraries on a weekly basis to present their books and discuss them with the students. The librarians also coordinate student clubs on a variety of topics. Each library has three librarians.