About+LMERC

About the Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre (LMERC)

The library

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The Languages and Multicultural Education Resource Centre (LMERC) is a specialist support centre/library for schools in the following areas: Languages, English as an additional Language (EAL), Multicultural education and Global citizenship, Studies of Asia, Civics and Citizenship, Human Rights,, Values and related areas. The resource centre is part of the English as an Additional language and Multicultural education Unit (EALM), Department of Education and Training (DET). The library has a collection of over 30,000 physical resources and also maintains a number of online sites providing digital resources and links to curated digital resources. This includes the online catalogue at: [], this wikispace and the LMERC pinterest page at: [] .======

The library is open 9am-5pm Monday to Fridays. The library is located at Level 1, 189 Faraday St, Carlton. CO.AS.IT building.

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LMERC is a dedicated resource centre for Victorian teachers from all sectors. Fondly known as 'LMERC', it has gone through a number of changes of identity and location in the past 25 years. Over those years two crucial things have remained the same- its magnificent collection of books and resources, and the expertise and dedication of its librarians and library assistants. Through LMERC, thosands of teachers have been given practical pedagogical advice and resources to meet the diverse learning needs of their students. They have been better able to teach English, to nurture their students' love of language learning, to help them to fully develop global perspectives and cultural literacy, and to appreciate the multicultural world in which they live. ======

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The flexibility of the LMERC collection to change and grow in the light of new education policies, changing student populations, and the needs of educators has ensured that is has been recognised through the years as an essential resource. ======

Collection
The LMERC library holds an extensive collection of over 35,000 references, resources and multimedia materials for teachers P-12 and includes:·
 * teacher reference materials ·
 * culturally inclusive & bilingual picture books, fiction and big books
 * posters ·
 * selected journals related to language teaching and multicultural education ·
 * DVDs, audio CDs and CD-Roms
 * Realia (boxes of culturally specific objects) ·
 * Readers ·

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">LMERC services focus on promoting the collection to teachers, teacher aides, community workers and pre service teachers. Professional development to teachers and pre-service teachers alike shows them how to to incorporate multicultural perspectives and Australian Curriculum cross curriculum priorities and general capabilities across the curriculum. ======

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Services to non-metropolitan schools have always been a vital part of LMERC provision. Resources can be posted out to government school teachers in rural areas. The postage to the school is free but the school or teacher will need to pay the return postage fee. ======

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Email or phone LMERC to order resources (theme, year levels/reading levels, formats). lmerc.library@edumail.vic.gov.au or ring 9349 1418. ======

<span style="color: #6ebc49; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">New Arrival kits
EAL RPOs can request resources to be sent to schools receiving a newly arrived non-English speaking student. Most students will have attended an English Language school but some will not. Teachers and RPOs can request resources to enable mainstream teachers to assist students with low level English. Resources include teacher resources on teaching EAL in the mainstream setting, photocopiable activities and interactive CDs and DVDs, bilingual dictionaries and picture books, high interest -low literacy readers and activities for particular areas such as grammar, pronunciation, speaking and listening, phonics, pair work etc. Teachers should contact their EAL RPO in the first instance. RPOs can contact LMERC by email at lmerc.library@edumail.vic.gov.au.