Library and Resource Center for "Arlozoroff" Elementary School

"Arlozoroff" is an elementary school in east Kiryat Chaim with over 700 pupils. During the last few years the teachers staff developed a program focusing on Kiryat Chaim and its heritage and it was decided to incorporate this topic into the school library using textbooks, pupils' papers, photographs and the Internet.

The school library is in need of comprehensive renovation and upgrading including new furniture and technological equipment such as computers and Internet stations as well as about 500 books.

The library will be open to the public living in the area, in the afternoon and evening hours.

Tchernikovsky Elementary School Library

The 30-member teaching staff of Tchernikovsky Elementary School (est. 1963) currently educates 384 pupils in grades 1-6, with a minimum of 28 children and a maximum of 36 children per classroom. The school library is an unattractive, ill-equipped room with cold floors, walls in need of whitewashing, furniture and shelves requiring replacement, and very few books. Its only encyclopedia was published in 1980; its most recent dictionary dates from 1971. The library lacks even a single computer. The lack is felt not only by the 20% of the school's student body that come from socioeconomic want, children who have no access to books or a computer at home, but also by their more fortunate classmates.

The Tchernikovsky Elementary School Library proposal budget includes provision for air conditioning; carpeting and laminated or parquet flooring so that the younger children can sit on the floor for story hours and other group activities; new shelves and furniture; up-to-date computer and communication stations; full safety features including fire detectors and emergency exits; and of course, books!

Tel Chai Elementary School Library

Tel Chai Elementary School is the largest elementary school in Haifa. It is located in the mid- to lower-class Neve Sha'anan neighborhood (est. 1922), which is home to approximately 14% of The City's population. The school currently educates 560 pupils; these include many immigrant children from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia. The Tel Chai Elementary School Library is inadequately insulated from heat, cold and noise; poorly ventilated; and scantily furnished.

The proposal budget includes provision for structural renovation of the library's ceiling and walls; air conditioning and electrical re-wiring; library furniture; and drapes to cut the sun's glare and help insulate the space from temperature extremes.

Hugim Elementary School Library

Hugim High School was established in 1934 by a group of German-Jewish immigrants to Mandatory Palestine. Imbued with Zionist ideals, they sought to provide their children with academic instruction at European levels and with Israeli cultural values, all delivered in the Hebrew tongue. Graduates of the school in its early decades have included Nobel prizewinning chemist Aaron Ciechanover and renowned historian of the Holocaust Yehuda Bauer. Today, 1,100 middle-class pupils in grades 7 through 12 are instructed by a teaching staff of 100.  All faculty members hold B.A. degrees, and 30% hold M.A. degrees. In 1999, Hugim was the first Israeli school to win international ISO 9002 recognition for administrative excellence.

Hugim High School has remained true to its founders' belief in pupil-centered education and in the capacity of all people to learn and to fulfill their potential. In keeping with this philosophy, Hugim instructs children at all learning levels, providing special-education programs for slow learners and accelerated programs for gifted children. The school has successfully integrated computer technology into classroom instruction. In addition, all pupils benefit from a rich extracurricular syllabus designed to encourage them to develop personal and social responsibility and leadership skills.

Until recently, however, Hugim High School has lacked a library building. Its book collection has been stored in the school bomb shelter, a small, dark, windowless underground room. During the Second Lebanon War of July-August 2006, the shelter had to be temporarily emptied of its tables and chairs and readied for emergency use. Recently, however,  in partnership with the Municipality of Haifa, the school has demolished three old classrooms and constructed in their place an approximately 130 square meter, fully equipped and furnished library building with carpeted floors, acoustic ceilings, central heating and cooling, up-to-date computer and communication stations, and full safety features including fire detectors and emergency exits. For easy physical access, a corridor connects the building to school classrooms.  

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