Learning Resource Center

subtitle: The best $2/year I spend on education.

One of my favorite support centers remains NJ Dept. of Ed's Learning Resource Center. My children (*) and I have logged hours and hours at the LRC. I have used many of their machines, their work area and their professional library. I have borrowed board games, books, manipulatives and curriculum resources, and cut hundreds of pieces on their Eillison Dies. I know no less expensive place to laminate things.

There are 4 LRC offices: North (East Orange), north satellite (Morris Plains), central (Dayton) and south (Sewell). Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5 pm.

New evening hours starting 9/2/08: Morris Plains, Tuesday until 6 pm; Dayton Wednesday until 6pm; East Orange, Thursday until 6 pm. (They follow the state schedule and do close for snow storms. I am not liable for any schedule changes. Late August to early September and spring break the centers are often packed with teachers, but many other times there is more work space than you could need. If you arrive on the day of a conference, the parking lot may be packed -- but there may still be work space; it will depend on the conference they are running.)

* - it is not a children's center at all. If you do not have children who can sit and self-entertain and handle time without food or drinks perhaps you can coop, or trade time with another parent so that you can go on your own.