McKelvie Library News Blog

Congratulations to our third raffle winner drawn during National School Library Month!  Bella, in Mrs. Bernier's homeroom, was selected out of the entries submitted. The Great Stone Face title that Bella selected, via the Google Form entry, will be mailed to her home from one of our local indie bookstores,  Bookery   Manchester. Happy reading! Please click  HERE  for the fourth Google Form raffle for a Great Stone Face nominee. These weekly raffles are being held in honor of National School Library Month. Please only submit one entry per week,  McKelvie . The fourth winner will be announced on May 1st via the library blog!  If you have not heard already, we have a new digital resource to explore! Sora, an OverDrive product, is a digital platform which allows K-12 schools to access audio and eBooks. Our school has recently enrolled in the New Hampshire Schools Shared Digital Collection via the Sora platform. Sora is an OverDri...

Congratulations to our second raffle winner drawn during National School Library Month! Grady W. , from Mrs. Steere's homeroom, was selected out of the 68 entries submitted. The Great Stone Face title that Grady selected, via the Google Form entry, will be mailed to his home from one of our local indie bookstores,  Bookery   Manchester. Happy reading, Grady! Please click  HERE  for the third Google Form raffle for a Great Stone Face nominee. These weekly raffles are being held in honor of National School Library Month. Please only submit one entry per week,  McKelvie . The third winner will be announced on April 24th via the library blog!  McKelvie, we have a new digital resource to explore! Sora, an OverDrive product, is a digital platform which allows K-12 schools to access audio and eBooks. Our school has recently enrolled in the New Hampshire Schools Shared Digital Collection via the Sora platform. Sora is an OverDrive pr...

Congratulations to our first raffle winner drawn during National School Library Month! Lilly M., from Mrs. Davidson's homeroom, was selected out of the 93 entries submitted. The Great Stone Face title that Lilly selected, via the Google Form entry, will be mailed to her home from one of our local indie bookstores,  Bookery  Manchester. Happy reading, Lilly! Please click  HERE  for the second Google Form raffle for a Great Stone Face nominee sent from  Bookery  Manchester. These weekly raffles are being held in honor of National School Library Month. Please only submit one entry per week,  McKelvie . McKelvie , thank you again for keeping your library books and library-issued textbooks safe during our remote learning time! I know that at this point all library materials are overdue (not the textbooks as we were not scheduled to start collecting these until June 5th). Please do not be concerned about overdue library books as long as yo...

Happy National School Library Month! I hope that you are all continuing to read for pleasure. It is so important that we keep reading during this time of remote learning. Please click  HERE  to see a  LibGuide  I have created and will continue to update as we grow as remote learners. Click  HERE  for a fun raffle for students to participate in! One entry per student per week, please! Typically, we vote for the NH Great Stone Face Award in the month of April during National Library Week (April 19th-25th, 2020). This voting has been postponed until the month of May. I will provide a link to the ballot when voting is open. Please be sure to read or listen to two or more nominees in preparation for the May vote! Click  HERE  to go see the Great Stone Face page on the  McKelvie  Library website. I want to share a quote with you from Mason Cooley.  "Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." Please ...