"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

Library Media Specilaist

Mary Ellen Quinn Olivieri

Hours

Every Morning 7:20 - 7:40

After School

Monday: open until 3:20

Tuesday: open until 3:00 (Robotics Club Meeting)

Wednesday: open until 1:20 (Meetings)

Thursday: open until 3:00 (Robotics Club Meeting)

Friday: open until 3:00

The St. Francis Xavier Library Media Center provides a safe and stimulating environment that promotes learning and literacy to help students achieve academic success and to become independent seekers of knowledge.

Our library centers on student learning with instruction focusing on research strategies that will help students access and evaluate information and use it correctly. Students are instructed on how to use the Online Card Catalog and the Dewey Decimal System which helps them become independent learners.

Our collection is current with books of high interest value that support the curriculum, the Accelerated Reader program, and appeal to diverse student needs.

Technology is an integral part of the learning process here at St. Francis and the library provides computers for student use and a Smartboard used for instruction and presentations. The computers are equipped with software that supports the curriculum and helps with research and writing. Students have access to the Online Card Catalog on all computers in the school.

Policies

Students should have their Agenda Book signed by a teacher if they are planning on visiting the library not during their scheduled class time.

Circulation

Students may borrow books for 14 days and they are renewable. A fine of five cents a day will be charged for each day a student's book is late.

Volunteers:

The library is a wonderful place to volunteer! There is always much to do such as checking books in and out, assisting students in locating books, reading a book at storytime, or working at our Spring and Winter Scholastic Book Fairs!

Book Donations

Book donations are always welcome. It is great way to add to our collection.

	Our Library has 15 computers which enables half a class to work on assignments or take AR tests.
	We open each morning at 7:20 for students to take AR tests. Parents are welcome to come and help their children select books.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Christmas websites to inform and enjoy!

Holiday Traditions

Spelling Bee 2008

Congratulations to Kieran Martin our SFX Spelling Bee winner. Kieran will represent SFX at the Diocesan Spelling Bee which will be held at St. Francis during National Catholic Schools Week in January. Way to go Kieran!!

Accelerated Reader Program

The second quarter begins on Tuesday, October 14th.

AR will end for the second quarter on December 17th at 12:00!

If you have any questions about the program, click on the links below or feel free to stop by the library or call me at 602-266-5264 Ext. 4106. You can also email me at MaryEllen.Olivieri@sfxphx.org

What is Accelerated Reader?

Click here for AR book list

Our Book Fair will be held in early December.

Volunteers are needed!

Student Book Review

The Big Field by Mike Lupica

Fifth grader, Nick Johnsen, just finished reading The Big Field and said, "the book has a really good message, would be enjoyed by both boys and girls, and that there is an unexpected twist." Thanks for the review Nick. Good job!!

If you would like to review a book, just see Mrs. O!

Mrs. O just finished reading several of the books in the Young Bond series. If you like action and adventure with lots of information, these are great reads. The books are about James Bond when he was a teenager and all the adventures he found himself in the middle of when he was trying to get through Eton (school in England). If you are a fan of the James Bond movies, these book are a must!

Word of the Day!

Improve your vocabulary. Learn a new word a day. Go to the

following website:

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mwwod.pl

Need Help Doing Research Notecards?

Go to the following website:

http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/writing/notecard.html

The Kentucky Virtual Library has a fun and interactive website

on researching called:

HOW TO DO RESEARCH

GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE AND HAVE FUN LEARNING!

HTTP://WWW.KYVL.ORG/HTML/KIDS/F_HOMEBASE.HTML

Writing Resources:

The Internet Public Library - Did you wait until the last minute to look for those references for your term paper? Is it too late to have the folks take you to the library? Don't despair! Just visit the Internet Public Library! It has complete editions of previously published print works on-line, as well as new works only published in electronic form. You can do research or visit the Reading Room, Exhibit Hall or the Classrooms. It has divisions for Youths and Teens as well. Well, get cracking, go to the library!

Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. - This is a must for anyone writing a paper of any kind.



Wordsmyth - The Educational Dictionary - Thesaurus.  This site will help you find your vocabulary words and those "other" forms that you need, as well.

Spelling Rules - This site, from Loyalist College in Bellview, Ontario, Canada, has information about when to use "ery", "ary", "ible" and "able". Even I kept saying, "I didn't know there was a rule for that! I just memorized the spellings!"

28 Rules for English Spelling  - A nifty little page of rules for spelling the 87% of English words that follow the rules of phonics.