OUR STAFF:
Marilyn Kimura, Librarian
Peggy Clark, Library Assistant
Jennifer Addiego, Cataloging Assistant

OUR MISSION:
To support the acquisition of reading and research skills and promote the growth of literacies for gifted students from pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade.

OUR GOALS:

Reading:
To develop a community of dedicated, passionate, literate readers who experience joy in reading. We look to empower students to find those books that speak directly to each individual and to enable readers to experience gratification, competence, and pleasure in reading as they interact with text and images to create meaning. We look for development of aesthetic criteria along with comprehension, and seek to expand and enrich our students' lives with literature and art from the diverse cultures and time periods of our human existence.

In Lit Club, founded in 1982, students in grades 2-8 have opportunities to practice reading strategies and literary analysis in small groups. Lit Club groups meet weekly for an hour with trained parent and teacher facilitators. Children are encouraged to read for pleasure, to develop a love of literature, and to share this passion with others in focused discussion based on personal response to text.

Our Adult Lit Club meets monthly, affording parents, staff, and friends time to socialize over book discussions.

RESEARCH:
To develop independent, self-motivated, disciplined learners who use critical and creative thinking to find out what they want to know. The research process is inquiry-based, and authentic projects provide students the opportunity to explore, select, understand, evaluate, and use print and electronic resources for information.

OUR POLICIES:
Our library materials are available any time the building is open and our library catalog is available 24/7 on the Web. In order to foster self-reflective independence, children from Kindergarten through 8th grade are responsible for deciding for themselves how many books to check out, based on their judgment about how many they can take care of. We strive to enable children to travel worlds through books. Balanced information, excellent writing, point of view, multicultural exposure, and different genres inform our selection of resources, as reflected in our Library Selection Policy (pdf download).

OUR RESOURCES:
The library houses 18,000 print and AV items, and electronic resources, to nourish and challenge our community of readers. Our web-based library catalogue can be searched from computers at school or at home.. We provide an on-line subscription to World Book Encyclopedia and ARTstor, a comprehensive database of images for our community. For our adult population, we have information and curriculum materials to support the faculty and a broad collection of parenting and gifted education references.

Search our library catalog.

Search World Book Encyclopedia On-Line.

Look at our student books wiki -- Jabberwiki.

OUR PROCEDURES
Library Privileges

• All members of our Nueva community -- students, parents, staff -- automatically have borrowing privileges. We keep barcodes at the library desk. Students have theirs already; parents should stop by and ask for one.
• Our loan period is two weeks. We don’t charge fines, and are liberal about renewing books. If they are not returned by the end of the year, we charge a replacement fee.

Hours of Operation

• 8:00 am to at least 4:00 pm -- and maybe later, as long as there is a staff person on site. You are welcome to check books out of the library at any time the doors are open, whether or not library staff is present. Check out using the automated system, or write your name, book title, and barcode number on a slip of paper and leave it on the desk.
• Our catalog is web-based and you can access it at any time, on or off campus, to check our holdings. Go to: http://nuevaschool.org/programs/library/library-catalog. Bookmark it!

We couldn't do it without help from our friends! Please consider volunteering in the library. Contact Peggy Clark for details: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .