| The mission and goals of the St. James Episcopal Day School Library are in accordance with Standards and Guidelines For Library Media Programs In Louisiana Schools. Toward this end, our mission is to provide the resources and materials as well as instruction in their use, which will support and enhance the instructional program of the school and serve the needs of the school community. Our goal is to establish and maintain a collection with a wide range of educational materials on all levels of difficulty, with diversity of appeal, allowing for the presentation of many points of view. |
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The library provides a broad-based collection, which supports the school curriculum and encourages recreational reading. The collection of over 9,000 titles includes but is not limited to monographs, videos, computer programs, CDs, maps, globes, charts, kits, periodicals and newspapers.
The library is open from 7:55 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. daily. Students may use the library before school, at recess, and during class with teacher permission, as well as their regularly scheduled weekly class time. Small group research is available at any time there is not a library class in session.
All students in Kindergarten through grade five attend library class thirty minutes each week to learn information processing skills, print and non-print using literature in connection with the classroom curriculum. Pre-Kindergarten classes come to the library for fifteen minutes once a week for story time. The librarian works closely with the classroom teachers on scheduling library time, planning curriculum connections, and acquiring of resources and technology. The library promotes itself as an alternative classroom.
Books may be checked out for one week and renewed twice. Students must return overdue books before checking out another. Overdue fines are not charged, but grades are held until books are returned or replaced.