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This Month:

TAB enjoyed its ALL TAB field trip to see Pedro Martin! We finished the year with an ice cream sundae party and selected our Top Ten Picks for the year.  See which books won!

Here’s how to check your library account for books you owe. Clear your accounts as soon as you can before summer check-outs can begin.

The library will be closed many dates starting the second week of May due to testing. Contact margaret . carpenter @apsva.us if I can help you plan and get the books that you need. We’ll bring them to you!

College Ready with Research Skills? Join our pilot project. Interested 9th graders can work with Liz and Maggie to “badge” students whose work demonstrates their advancing skill. Spreadsheet (make a copy and share it with L and M.) See Maggie to get involved.

10th grade researchers are working on their inquiry-based Primary Sources Paper. The library’s lessons and subject guides provide support to develop college readiness and resource awareness!

Brownies n Books: Sign up to lead or contribute to sessions on this schedule!  <– read about our last sessions for the year!

Future Problem Solving Club: Congratulations to Nicola and Finn who came in first and second in the state-wide creative writing competition that centers upon evolving technology and global challenges. It is called Future Problem Solving. Details are at VAFPS. Join the club next fall, especially if you would enjoy a little research and possibly the dystopia genre! Maggie is the club’s sponsor. Creative writers can ask her for more information!

Summer gives new opportunities to start Book Clubs! students who are planning to start their own book club or any other club at school next Fall can ask for the library’s notes and tips!  Rosie, our Activities Director will help you succeed!  Maggie can support you to use the Spread the Word link at the bottom of H-B’s home page to get your announcement on the PA system, on the scrolling announcements in the hallway and on the school’s social media. Visit her for help!

E-content (some of it) is changing locations this year!  See how H-B’s newest e-books and audio-books will appear in the SORA app which is on the list of APS Library Databases.

Track a new goal this year with an individualized reading contract. Meet with Maggie for support. It’s a application of one of our Four Pillars: Self-Directed Learning.

Restorative Justice in Education (rje) has a following in APS schools as a means to promote non-violence, caring communities, integrity, equity and student choice and voice. Contact Maggie if you’d like to participate in H-B’s work inspired by The Little Book of Restorative Justice in Education. It’s an easy-to-read book you can check out from our library. Joining us develops leadership in our students as well as H-B’s Four Pillars: Caring Community, Equity, Self-Governance and Self-Directed Learning.

Our schedule for Brownies -n- Books and information about joining a reading group provide great community building and service opportunities.  What will you lead?  Need ideas?  The schedule models diverse ways to share your voice, passions and library resources during I-Blocks.

Skills Focus:

Our Research Guides linked here support specific research projects assigned at HBW. Use them to develop skills targeted for Middle Schoolers and High Schoolers. Explore the menu there to find the databases recommended for art, fashion, history, science and more!

Report to Maggie your research topic/question to get additional support and recommended resources. Meet with Maggie afterward for support. Using your APS Google login… High Schoolers use this form for Science Fair and Science Expo projects, NHD, PSP, Capstone, Sociology and projects of all kinds.

Community Building:

9th Graders are helping the library build a “collection” in the library’s catalog of the favorite books. Suggest a title to Maggie to be added since it will help other readers discover great YA fiction.

Suggest a book that you want us to purchase for our collection: link.

Personal Reading Goal for 2023-2024: If you would like support from the library to reach a personal goal for your reading, you can record it at tinyurl.com/PersonalRG (or login to APS Google and access the Personalized Reading Goal Google Form.)  Consult individualized reading contract for some great ideas to stretch yourself through self-directed learning!

Log in to the catalog with the link at right to check if you have any overdue books (image here shows how.)  Use the catalog to access e-books in our Mackin and Follett collections. See books available from all of our APS libraries and arrange an inter-library loan.

Two Programs:  Our library at The Heights Building provides materials to students from two programs:  H-B Woodlawn (grades 6-12 as well as adult English Language Learners) where Maggie and Carol serve, and APS’s Shriver Program (serving older students with special needs.) From our facility, you can check out books ranging across reading levels from pre-reading to advanced college level research.

It won’t take long for you to see where books are shelved in our library.  Does this map help?

Heights Library Sublocations. Look for color coding at the tops of the shelves as you browse.

Can you guess where each call number is shelved?  Hint:  look at the top and the bottom of each spine label that appears in the picture below!

Learn more about call numbers and their related locations in the library

Library Hours: 8:40 – 4:00.        Maggie Carpenter, Librarian    Carol Burger, Library Assistant

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