See what is new at the Dr. Stephen J. Storkel Learning Center, including:

• New Library Promotions and Displays

• Library Statistics: An Average Day in the DSJSLC

• New Tall Table Seating

• Northern Tier Pine Center and Makerspace Club Collaboration

• Ramtastic Reads

• Resources in Focus

We also celebrated the current and past winners and nominees for the National Book Awards. Some of the recent winners in our collection include All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir and The Life and Times of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum.

Coloring corner artwork is now on display. Stop by and take a look, or add your mark to the current works in progress!

Library Statistics: An Average Day in the DSJSLC

Many students have made the library a part of their routine as a space to meet before school, during study halls, with a class project, or after school studying. We keep usage statistics to help illustrate the student patrons that share our space and resources each day.

On a typical day from 7:15-7:45 we average close to 100 students visiting prior to homeroom as they enter the building to meet friends, print assignments, study, or check out books.

After homeroom, we start study halls and class visits which we manage by adjusting limits depending on the number of classes visiting. Our study hall visits for the 2nd nine weeks totaled more than 3,500 and we can easily get more than 200 students visiting from study halls on average throughout the day.

We also manage the space for class projects and research and we had over 200 class periods scheduled in quarter 2.

Among the classes that visited the library, we collaborated on projects for 10th-grade English conceptual speech research, Social Studies projects focused on the Great Depression and World War II, Statistical Datasets, Spanish Speaking Countries, and CEW Mock Interviews.

New Seating

Northern Tier Library Cards and Makerspace Club Collaboration

Pine-Richland High School shares the room with Northern Tier Library to run the Pine Center branch after school Mondays-Thursday from 3-5:30 pm. If you ever need any resources beyond the high school collection, the welcoming and helpful staff can interlibrary loan materials or provide access to their electronic materials with a free library card. We are looking forward to strengthening this partnership by providing library cards to our students in the coming months.

Our Makerspace club has also strengthened our collaboration with Pine-Center's Maker program. See the pictures below of some of the recent Makerspace club meetings. We look forward to meeting again for the crocheting maker program on the 23rd.

Ramtastic Reads from the D.S.J.S.L.C.!

Resources in Focus

For students: Destiny Collections: Click here for our Destiny Collections for book lists and recommendations based on different themes/subjects/genres.

For teachers: Our professional ebook collection through Mackinvia (pinerichland.mackinvia.com) provides free professional development webinars. If you are interested, you can sign up on the links provided in this flier.