The St. John the Baptist Library Collection has more than 10,000 items including easy, fiction, nonfiction, reference, professional, periodical, and audio-visual materials. The reference section includes atlases, almanacs, thesauruses, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. The school has a full-time librarian and participates in the MDK12 Digital Library Project, a partnership of Maryland public school districts and participating nonpublic schools for the purpose of collective, cost-effective purchasing.
Below is the list of online services to which our school subscribes through the MDK12 Digital Library. These are managed by the library. There are other resources as well. You may connect to the services below by using the home access codes attached to Tuesday notes home at the beginning of the year. Please keep these instructions near your computer for easy access.
BrainPOP
CultureGrams:
http://online.culturegrams.com
Scholastic Go! (formerly Grolier Online):
SIRS: Knowledge Source; Discoverer; and Decades:
World Book:
https://www.worldbookonline.com
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Hours – The library schedule is determined at the beginning of each year and is posted outside the library door. The SJB library is generally open during regular school hours.
The Collection – The SJB Collection consists of more than 10,000 items, including easy, fiction, nonfiction and reference books, periodicals, professional, and audio-visual materials The reference section includes atlases, almanacs, thesauruses, dictionaries, and circulating and non-circulating encyclopedias.
Stories and poems written by SJB students are collected in a creative writing book, which is kept by the library.
Coding – A color coding system is used to help identify certain reading levels. Students are not necessarily restricted to these levels.
Checkout – The student who checks out the book is responsible for its return. Students should not lend or borrow checked-out books.
Handling materials – SJB library books have the barcode and date due slip positioned on the lower left corner of the front cover. We ask students to treat library books with care.
Courtesy – Students are expected to be quiet in the library so others may read and work.
Two categories can appear on weekly notices that are sent home from the library:
Weekly Borrowing periods and limitations:
Kindergarten – some in-school borrowing at teacher’s discretion; maximum of one book at any given time
Grades 1 & 2 – maximum of one book at any given time for enjoyment
Grades 3 & 4 – maximum of two* books at any given time for enjoyment
Grade 5-8 – maximum of three* books at any given time for enjoyment
Books and Magazines – 2 weeks/renewable unless on reserve
Encyclopedias (circulating) – overnight/renewable daily unless on reserve
Parents – may borrow through their children’s library card(s) (kept in the library) except seasonal items at times of peak use in school.
Returns – drop slot at the circulation desk just inside the library is the only official return for all students; white classroom crates (in Grades K-4 only) help consolidate daily returns
Renewals – allowed, with a limit of three renewals
Reserves – as needed for popular items or for research projects
Fines – 10 cents per day/per book that school is in session. Fines are not excused for routine absences, but are excused for snow days or other all-school emergencies.
Replacement costs – also posted outside the library door and on the school website
Paperbacks - $9.00
Hardcover - $19.00 or cost of replacing the book
Refunds of replacement costs are made if a book is eventually found minus any accrued fines.