At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.

 --President Barack Obama

What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.  --Harold Howe, former US 

Commissioner of Education

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.                              

--Henry Ward Beecher Libraries enable the past to talk to the future.

--Edward Cornish

"School libraries help teachers teach and children learned. Children and teachers need library resources--especially books--and the expertise of a librarian to succeed. Books, information technology and school librarians who are part of the schools' professional team are basic ingredients for student achievement." Former First Lady, Laura Bush

A Look at School LibrariesElementary, Middle, & High School

Weber City Elementary School• Quick Facts

– Total Enrollment: 415– Total Staff: 47– Staff to Student Ratio:   8.8 : 1– Highly Qualified Teachers: 94%

• Standards of Learning Data 07-08– Reading: 93% – Writing: 97% – Mathematics: 92% – History: 89.95%– Science: 98%– Phonological Awareness K-2: 97%

WCE Library Circulation Desk

View from the Circulation Desk

Books

The Back Wall of Books

A little nook within the libraryThe closet on the right is used for storage.

Spring DecorThese were used last year and saved to use again this year. The librarian explained that she places these on top of the book shelves with little 

picket fences that she has made, then displays spring books.

Behind the Circulation Desk

Classroom CratesThese crates are filled with books each week. The librarian prepares each teacher one crate each week with books to keep within the classroom. 

Clifford welcomes students to the library.

Books on Tape/CD

Work Room

Work Desk

More Work Area

Storage Room

Teacher Resources

Doors to the Library

Welcome to GCMS Library

Computers and Tables

GCMS Library

Computers

Storage

Magazine Area

One of two couches located within the library

Far left corner of the library

Standing at the back of the library, looking towards the library entrance

Work/Meeting Space

GCMS Library Circulation Desk

To the right of library entrance

Work Room

Storage Room

Gate City High School LibraryThe GCHS Library/Media Center has a collection of over 9,000 books and non-book resources, three card-catalog search stations, and five multi-media research stations. Computerized research includes these encyclopedias: Americana, Grolier, Compton's Multi-Media, and World Book. Ongoing subscriptions to electronic databases include InfoTrac (a computerized version of the Abridged Reader's Guide), and SIRS RESEARCHER. Other computerized programs include Discovering Authors, Twayne's author series, Time Almanac, Broadcast News, and a host of other programs to supplement the high school's instructional programs.

Can you find the librarian in this picture? This is the first view upon entering the library.

Looking to your right upon entering the library

Upon rounding the corner, entering the library

Card Catalog Computers

Behind the Circulation Desk

Also Behind the Circulation Desk

Work Room

More Work Room

More Work Room

TV Storage?This is where I remember it always being…perhaps so teacher who come to use it won’t have to worry with rolling it all throughout the library??...That’s my guess.

*Yawn…*

Looking Towards the Entrance to the Library

A Little Nook in the Corner of the Library

Computers

Magazine Area

More Tables

A View from another angle

Small room within the libraryThis room was being used for testing when I visited, 

but it is also used for AP classes. 

Directly outside the small classroom

Above the Computers