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Multiple Intelligences Resources (Gathered from various sources on the Internet.) What should be in an MI library? The New City School, an elementary school in St. Louis, MO, is in the process of creating the worlds first MI LIBRARY. The school had two gyms, one of which had been used as a cafeteria for years. They decided to build a new dining hall and convert the old gym/cafeteria into a library. It will feature risers with book shelves around the perimeter (to make the high windows more relevant to students), a mini-theater area for student performances, two semi-soundproof classrooms, water and sinks, a mezzanine, more book shelves, and a small art gallery on the outside of the library. The new library will be, appropriately, a very linguistic place. The shelf space for books will triple, for example. But since its going to be an MI library, thats just the beginning. Because planners at the The New City School know what a powerful tool MI can be in student learning, they want to find ways to incorporate MI in the library. The library shouldnt be a gymnasium or an art room, but students should be able to use their bodily-kinesthetic and spatial intelligences to learn in the library. Likewise, their logical-mathematical, musical, naturalist, intrapersonal, and interpersonal intelligences should also be addressed in this very linguistic setting. Says New City School Director Thomas Hoerr, ?we have worked a great deal on this and have many plans, but Id like to gather your thoughts too: what ideas do you have about how we can incorporate all of the intelligences in our linguistic MI library? I welcome your ideas about how to address intelligences in the library (and/or your thoughts about libraries, in general. ) Also, please send this to anyone else who might be able to offer good suggestions. Id like to hear from them too! Please zap me at trhoerr@.? In 1983, Howard Gardner introduced his Theory of Multiple Intelligences in a seminal book, Frames of Mind. Ba