The Rambling Reader

Quarter 3 2026

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

Library Statistics and Class Overview
New Library Promotions and Displays
Ramtastic Reads
Resources in Focus

Library Statistics and Class Overview

Study hall visits for quarter 3: We continue to be a popular space for students to visit during study hall. This quarter we had 7,349 student walk-in visits from their study hall, and had 2179 circulations.

We also manage the space for class projects and research and we had over 283 class periods scheduled in quarter 3

Among the classes that visited the library, we collaborated on projects for English debate research, research into events of the age of imperialism in world history, spanish-speaking country research, A Tale of Two Cities research, and Digital Citizenship.

Library Promotions and Displays

We celebrated the current and past winners and nominees for the Youth Media Awards. We had the live stream of the awards ceremony on January 30th. We have many of the Printz , Morris, YALSA Nonfiction, Coretta Scott King, Pura Belpre, Sydney Taylor and others on display.

For Black History Month we showcased the contributions of Black authors and rotated books by genre to display at the tables focusing on science fiction, historical fiction, romance, poetry and more!

In the month of March we've been celebrating the contributions of prominent historical and contemporary women authors and biographies /autobiographies of famous women. You can see some of the selections at each table in the library!

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

*Top 10 Independent Reads Checked out in Quarter 2:

One of Us is Next - Karen McManus
Catching Fire - Suzanne Collins
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
Moneyball - Michael Lewis
Dune - Frank Herbert
Empires of Light - Jill Jonnes
The Wicked King - Holly Black
The Wager - David Grann
Sheepdogs - Elliot Ackerman
Let Us Descend - Jesmyn Ward

*These do not include assigned readings.

Resources in Focus

For students: Exploring a career path? The library offers many resources for exploring different careers. Ferguson's Career Center offers in-depth information on workforce descriptions, salary ranges, employment prospects, and more. We also offer many career information links via PowerLibrary's PA Job Resources for workforce statistics and resume-building focused on PA.

Award Winning Books for 2026

For teachers: Our professional ebook collection through MackinVia was updated in February with many more titles. These would make a great resource for differentiated supervision.

You can access this by logging into mackinvia (pinerichland.mackinvia.com) with your Pine-Richland google email account and clicking on the backpack icon and selecting "Pine-Richland Professional" as your location. (See the screenshots below.)

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