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The goal of the Sayles School Library Media Center is to have a concise directory of websites that will help our staff and students find information that will supplement our collection.

Through technology the computer makes available to us a world of information at our fingertips.

This site will lead us to this information in a fraction of the time it takes to Google and choose. 

  

Check-Out and Over-Due Policy
Grade Level Items Duration
Kindergarten 1 Book 1 Week
Grade 1  1 Book 1 Week
Grades 2 - 3 2 Books & 1 Magazine 1 Week
Grades 4 - 8  2 Books & 1 Magazine 2 Weeks

 
Please remind students to return their library books on time!

Please help students to protect books & magazines from damage by food and drink.

Please encourage students to put library books and magazines in the same place at home or keep in back packs so they don't get lost.

If an accident should occur and books or magazines are damaged, please return them to the Media Center for repair.  Please do not try to repair them yourself.  If a book is damaged beyond repair it must be replaced or paid for.

Library privileges will be suspended if materials are over-due.

There will be a replacement fee charged for a lost book.  Library privileges will be suspended indefinitely if the fee is not paid.

8th grade students who owe books and do not pay for them will not be able to take part in graduation exercises.  All books must be returned or paid for.
   

Student Services

 
All classes are offered one class period per week to come to the library to return books and check out new ones.

The pre-school through third grade classes hear a story and then do an activity that reinforces the story they heard.  Sometimes they hear a story and then they watch a video of the same title and we discuss the differences between the two.

The kindergarten and first grade classes are the same as the pre-school, but the kindergarten and first grade students select books to take home at the discretion of their teacher.

Grades 2 through 8 have a library skills class during the first part of their class time, and then select books.  Once in a while Mrs. Shrewsbury or I will  read to them,  have a discussion, or spend time doing research.

All students have time to use the computers in the library and will be instructed on the use of electronic resources.

Students are allowed to use the library more often at the discretion of their teachers, for research, to look for specific books, or to return borrowed material.

A new service in the library is a Book Club for 7th and 8th grade students.  Students come into the library during their lunch time once a week and everyone has a chance to discuss the reading for the week while we have lunch and socialize.
  

Staff Services

  
The librarians will order books and other materials necessary to support the school curriculum.

With notice, the librarians will pull books and other materials from the stacks and make them ready for staff members.  They will also deliver them to the classrooms.