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The Oak Terrace School Library is open each school day from 8:00 AM- 3:30 PM.

Students in Kindergarten and Grade 1 have weekly visits scheduled for literature appreciation, book return, and selection.

Students in Grades 2-5 have a flexible-access schedule which enables teachers to coordinate with the media specialist to integrate literature appreciation, information literacy skills and a wide range of resources into their curriculum.

The Oak Terrace Library is an open library. That means that students may come to the library any time between the beginning of school and lunchtime whenever they have permission from their teacher. Students may come in for check-out, for research, or for independent study.

In order to keep this an open library, volunteers are needed to man the desk and help with shelving when the librarian, Mrs. Weiner, is working with classes or small groups.

To volunteer, please call  or email Mrs. Weiner at 433-0930

"Flexible Library Access" is the North Shore School District 112's method of delivering instruction of library/information skills along with the teaching of the classroom curriculum.  Although flexible library access is a relatively new concept, exciting research is beginning to show that it is the most effective way to teach information/library skills by melding those skills seamlessly with the classroom curriculum. Traditional "library" skills such as book care, using library shelving patterns, or finding a map in an atlas are, of course, taught, but they are practiced within the context of the classroom curriculum. Thus, a second grade literature piece in the classroom with the theme of cats might culminate in a session spent in the library on the difference between and fiction and non-fiction using appropriate pieces of fiction and non-fiction "cat" literature. Sometimes these activities are so seamless,  work is done in both the Library and the classroom and that children may not be aware that they are practicing "library" skills. Often, your child may have several teachers working with his/her class including the classroom teacher and the Library Teacher.  By not restricting the child to a once-weekly library visit, your child also has access to the Library Information Center all the time.  Your child's classroom teacher has a plan to facilitate easy and frequent visits to the Library Information Center.

The Oak Terrace IMC (see newest pictures) houses a collection of over 12,000 books and electronic resources. The library catalog is an online catalog that can be searched from any computer on the school network. Encyclopedias and other information resources are available in print and electronic formats. The Internet (accessible from our Home page), a virtual library that provides a multitude of information world wide, is accessible in the library, the classrooms and the computer lab.

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