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The SHMS
Library or Instructional Media Center (IMC) houses all types of
educational AV equipment and materials as well as over 13,500 books
and magazines for informational and leisure reading for students and
staff. The media center
has flexible scheduling, which allows students and staff to use the
library at any time and enables classes to have more flexible times
when signing up for research. The
IMC is completely automated with four online public access catalogs
or OPAC stations. Seating capacity is about sixty.
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Students
are allowed to have three books checked out at a time but are given
special permission to check out more if needed for research.
Reference material and magazines may be checked out for three
days and books may be checkout for three weeks.
Students may renew items up to three times.
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The IMC serves more
than 500 patrons each year and circulates, on the average, 43.50
items per patron during the school year.
Each year the library handles over 18,500 transactions.
All six-grade students come to the library at least once a
week, usually on Thursdays, with their language arts teachers in
order to check out books. The
library is also open each day during homeroom for students to check
out as well as after school.
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Monday, Oct. 16 to Thursday, Oct.
19
The PTO and
Scholastic Book Fairs will hold a book fair in the SHMS Library,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 13th to the 16th
during school hours. The book fair will also be held during Parent/Teacher
Conferences on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 15th and 16th.
Parents, guardians, grandparents, siblings and friends are
invited to attend! If
you come during school hours, please remember to check in at the
office and get a visitor’s badge before coming to the fair.
Scholastic will
be providing a wonderful selection of hardbound and paperback books.
There will be new releases, award-winning children’s books
as well as classics and great nonfiction books.
The fair will also include bookmarks, educational activity
books, sudoku puzzle books and more.
This will be a perfect time for students to get some reading
materials to keep those brilliant minds sharp and active the year
round. Normally 50 to
60% of the fair profits will be given back, in the form of books, to
the SHMS library collection. Thanks
for your support of SHMS and the library!
You might want
to visit the following site to check out some of the highlighted
books that we will have in the fair this year:
http://www.scholastic.com/bookfairs/books/middle.asp?wid=n63Umy8LKf1221477035
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SHMS students
participate in voting for the William
Allen White Children’s Book Award.
All students will be encouraged to participate in reading at
least three books from the William Allen White Book Award Master
List. They may vote
for their favorite book in April.
The William Allen White Children’s Book Award program is
the oldest state reading program in the United States and is
proud to have one of the highest student participation rates.
This year the program celebrates it’s 57th anniversary.
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