Tiny iBrary Has a New Location

   Ibrary Volunteer and Student The iBrary started with a Reynolds Foundation grant of $2,500 one year ago. It has since become a regular part of school life at H.B. Lee. The iBrary is a collection of about 500 books that students helped select. These include popular graphic novels, teen novel series, activity books and other high interest materials. Parent volunteers help to keep the iBrary open two days a week. This has been a great outreach program to kids who otherwise did not get to the library in the past. Since the iBrary and the regular library are part of the same system, students find it a handy way to return or renew items from either collection.

    You can help! We encourage parents to come and join the iBrary team. It’s a fun way to meet all the kids at our school and it makes a big difference to our developing young readers. Typically, iBrary volunteers work each Thursday for a month, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. If you’d like to find out more about it, contact Mark Hardin, library media specialist, at extension #8080.

 

 

Lee Reads

    National trends indicate a big drop-off in reading during the middle school years. Not at H.B. Lee! Over the past two years, our students have more than doubled their circulation rates at the school library. During the first three months of this year, students checked out 5,975 books. That compares to 4,880 books last year and 2,273 books in 2006. Students come regularly as class groups to check books out, but they also make good use of the iBrary extension program, which makes up 200-300 of each month’s activity.

    Some of the most popular items this year are the Twilight series of vampire/romance books by Stephanie Meyer. Students also enjoy the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, who was this fall’s teen author lecturer.