Welcome to your Library

“You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.”

--Michelle Rodriguez

The 5 Ws and an H

• Why?

• What?

• Who?

• When?

• Where?

• How?

Why?

• “The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.” --Carl T. Rowan

• “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” --Henry Ward Beecher

• “Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future” --Ray Bradbury

• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” --Jorge Luis Borges

What?

• More than 16,000 titles!• Books! (Fiction! Nonfiction!)• Magazines! Playaways!• Reference: encyclopedias, dictionaries,

atlases, online databases!• Computer lab / laptops!• Printers! Photocopier!• Supplies!

Who?

• Mrs. Hartmann

• Mrs. Johnson

When?

• Hours: 7:15 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday-Friday

• Lunch Passes are available to middle school students every day outside the MPR during the first 10 minutes of lunch. You must have a pass in order to come to the library.

• Sign in & leave your pass.

Where?

• Here.

• Second floor of the high school building.

How?

• http://www.portjeff.k12.ny.us

• Use the online catalog to find a book

• Check it out with Mrs. Johnson or Mrs. Hartmann

• Use the online databases for research

• Login to the Internet: research research

Pop Quiz!

• Ready?

Pop Quiz

1. When entering the library, I should

a) run at high speed

b) talk as loudly as I can

c) act civilized and sign-in

d) keep chomping away at my sandwich

Pop Quiz

2. Food is allowed in the library

a) if I’m careful to hide it

b) when I forget to eat breakfast

c) only if it’s “quiet” food

d) NEVER!

Pop Quiz

3) I can use my phone and headphones in the library

a) when my Mom or Dad call me

b) if music helps me think

c) if I hide them really well

d) ONLY at lunch

Pop Quiz

4. When I’m in the library, I cana) readb) drawc) studyd) talk quietly with my friendse) researchf) daydreamg) run around like I’m on a playground

Pop Quiz

5. When I’m done using library supplies, I should

a) leave them in a big mess as soon as the bell rings

b) stash them on the floor when the bell rings

c) put them neatly away before the bell rings

Pop Quiz

6. I can check out any title in the library.

a) True

b) False

Life in the Library

• Some scenarios….

Scenario #1

• Your English teacher wants you to find a book by Avi to read for class. Where do you go? What do you do? Bonus: What do you do when you’re done with it?

Scenario #2

• Your Social Studies teacher asks you to make a copy of a print map of Burkina Faso. Where do you go? What do you do?

Scenario #3

• You and your best friend are having a disagreement as to how to spell a word. Where do you go? What do you do?

Scenario #4

• You’re going on a long car trip with your family and really need something to entertain yourself. Where do you go? What do you do? Bonus: What do you do when you’re done with it?

Scenario #5

• Your math teacher would like you to find biographical information on Einstein. Where do you go? What do you do?

Hooray! You did it!

• Give yourself a hand….