What West County Library Offers:
High School:
At West County, our library strives to be the educational epicenter of our building - offering the technology and educational resources that our students need (whenever they need it) in order to succeed. Our library also offers a wide variety of fiction for our patrons to check out. Any student is welcome to check out books or magazines from the library throughout the day and most days after school as well. Materials that are checked out from the library can be kept for up to two weeks. Books can be put on hold for students who know exactly what they want to read next. There is also a form in the library for students to make book requests - the request will be reviewed and considered for order (even if it is a whole series of books). The maximum checkout is 3 books at a time.
Open Library at the High School:
Our library is open from 7:45 AM to 3:10 PM.
What's New in the Library
New books are steadily being added to our library throughout the school year. Students are allowed to request books if they fill out a "Book Request Form" for the books to be reviewed and considered for our Library. I am currently working on enhancing our graphic novels section and sports fiction section. We have cool new bookmarks, coloring sheets and word searches - and new seasonal decorations! We also have implemented a new reading incentive program at the middle school.
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Look for new signage and book displays coming soon to our Library. And check out our new Office Supply and Game Shelf that is for student use (these items and games do not leave the library). We have also added Breakout EDU games to our library for classroom use - only teachers are allowed to check these games out.
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Stationary and Game Shelf |
Fall is in the Air . . . . finally!
Our Nonfiction section was heavily weeded in 2018 and our fiction was weeded in 2020 in order to keep our collection current and organized to ensure easier access for staff and students. Nonfiction, like before, is still organized according to the Dewey Decimal System.
Our Fiction section has a New Book Display called "FALL into a new book" with our most current additions on display for checkout. Our Fiction Section is organized by genre - each book is alphabetically organized like before, however it is now divided according to genre. Look for the new Book Displays at the middle school as well. |
You can see our New Book display above.
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