Resource Centres
Three resource centres are located throughout the school and are easily accessible and offer students a great deal of support with their academic studies.
- In its main floor library is the Shep Connection Centre, where students take a number of individualized courses (online and correspondence). We also have a special section in our main floor library with a number of mandarin resources from the Confucius Institute in Edmonton.
- On the upper floor, there is another Learning Commons, affectionately known as "the Bookloft." This new venue hosts a technology resource centre, including laptops, SMARTBoard and a VideoConferencing suite. The school has online access to both the University of Alberta and Edmonton Public Library Catalogues. They offer an outstanding selection of reference materials and literature. Students now have the opportunity to reserve and download their latest books through an eBook solution called Overdrive (available as a download in the Apple App Store).
- Student Services is a place for students to come for assistance in aspects of High School (career counselling, personal counselling, post-secondary transition). A number of students, faculty and staff also assist international students in adapting to their new environment and making the transition into Canadian culture as easy and seamless as possible. Student Services is the hub for scholarship information. Over a half million dollars in scholarships are earned by Shep students each year.
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