Summer 2021
Library Newsletter Lower Moreland Township School District in collaboration with the Huntingdon Valley Library Mission and Beliefs District Mission: To foster individual excellence in a nurturing environment by integrating a dedicated staff, an innovative curriculum, and community resources, while promoting respect for self and others. All students will acquire the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes necessary to become lifelong learners and citizens who will think critically, act responsibly, communicate clearly and collaborate effectively in a global community.
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In our school libraries, we support students in achieving these goals and teachers in constructing meaningful lessons to meet their curricular needs. Ultimately, we hope to create lifelong learners of all ages via our LMTSD School Library Media Centers.
The library misses all of its readers! We hope you have been able to find some good online reads and discover new authors. Miss Vanessa at the Huntingdon Valley Library has been busy organizing a fabulous summer reading program for our students! There are many events to look forward to in the months of June, July, and August. The Tails and Tales Summer Reading program will run from June 21-August 1. There is a program called Beanstack where students can log their reading, earn raffle tickets, and submit their tickets for awesome prizes - like books!!
Reminders! You can check your library account online at any time! Go to: http://library.lmtsd.org, click on your school and enter your network username (lunch #) and network password (lm5d…).
Looking for a suggestion for a great book? Check out what Pine Road students have suggested on FlipGrid and suggest your own on FlipGrid or Google Forms.Mrs. Zschunke can’t wait to check out what you’re reading this summer, you can read with your very own Flat Mrs. Zschunke and use it like a bookmark to read together. If you snap a picture of yourself reading with Mrs. Zschunke, email it or share it on twitter @ontheshelf4kids.
Once entered into Follett Destiny, you can search the catalog and resources, like Follett Shelf eBooks and Audiobooks, or see which items you have checked out. All of these books are in Mrs. Zschunke’s summer reading pile - what will you read?
@ontheshelf4kids @murraymakers @lmhs_library
Email Contact PR ~ Mrs. Zschunke: ezschunke@lmtsd.org MA ~ Ms. Grosso: rgrosso@lmtsd.org HS ~ Mr. Engleman: pengleman@lmtsd.org
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MA Library Summer Resources eBooks & Audiobooks Our virtual library contains over 1000 new books and can be visited using your school Google SSO here. You can download the MackinVia app to read or listen on any device!
This year the MA Library has grown its virtual selection of books and resources so you can access them all summer long!
Summer Reading Our updated Summer Reading Library contains a selection of the most popular, award-winning, and highly reviewed books in our virtual collection. Click on the image below to visit this slide and browse through our ebooks & audiobooks!
2020-2021 Collections Click on the image below to explore!
Start a Summer Book Club No matter how different your summer experiences look, a book club is a great way to keep in touch with your friends! Most of the eBooks and audiobooks in our virtual library have multiple copies available. If you end up loving the book, consider making a creative video and sharing it to our library FlipGrid to recommend it to your classmates!
MA Virtual Library
Summer Events at the Public Library Check out the last page of this newsletter for info on how to participate in the HV Library Summer Reading Program which begins June 21st!
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Have a great summer, Murray Avenue! Read some great books and build something cool! We’ll see you in the library and in the Murray MakerSpace next year!
With updated resources, the library’s main page offers digital ways to spend rainy summer days. If you need any help accessing another digital resource, I’m always just an email away at rgrosso@lmtsd.org
Library Websites
Pine Road
Murray Ave
High School
Pine Road: goo.gl/rJ3Bi7 Murray Avenue: goo.gl/rrLHV2 High School: goo.gl/ZwkCRX
Lower Moreland High School We will all remember this one. It will be a long time until we forget about the past school year. We all learned and did so much over the last year, and we are grateful for most of the growth we have had this year. The library has adjusted through all of our instructional changes and challenges and has provided excellent service to all of our students and school community. Some of what drove change in the library were projects that we normally wouldn't have been able to accomplish with a full building. Mrs. Succi took on the job of inventorying our entire collection of thousands of books and other materials which is the first step in preparing our library for our move to the new high school. After the inventory was complete, we were able to order a few hundred new books for the library to update and diversify our collection. The next step is currently in process. We are weeding our collection in an effort to make the library more current, rigorous, and relatable for our students and staff. This process will continue through the next school year as we prepare for the big move. Our library used our technology capabilities to keep in touch with our classes and community. We hosted many hybrid and in person events in our wonderful library space. We love seeing folks here in person, and we were thrilled to welcome classes and study hall students back to the space for a chunk of the year. The library space changed a bit this year as we moved the makerspace from the main library floor into the former media lab. The movement to 1:1 computing for our students eliminated the need for computers in that space, so now we have a space that will constrain the dust and noise of a well functioning maker space. We were able to keep the ball rolling on a long term project that had partial funding from the LMPTA. Manav Singh (‘21) is leading students through a project that will scan and upload the Lary Leong Memorial yearbook and LMHS newspaper collection. This collection has its own website and it will be searchable by the public.
Congratulations to the class of 2021! Summer reading Ebooks: We hope that you will take the opportunity to utilize the resources of the LMHS Library, The Huntingdon Valley Library, and the digital books that are available at the following links. Goodreads ebooks for teens- Variety of genres available for all. Library of Congress -Classic and modern books available for free. Junior Library Guild - Variety of genres available for all. Google Sheet of publishers sharing free eBooks-- mainly fiction. Our makerspace is always looking for donations of power tools of all sorts, hand tools, electronics such as speakers and monitors to help continue to build our makerspace capabilities. The high school library can facilitate the purchase of a Celebration, Honor, or Memorial book. Please reach out to pengleman@lmtsd.org for more information to honor someone with a book in their name.
Huntingdon Valley Library’s Summer Learning Program begins on June 21! Children, teens, and adults are invited to participate in Tails and Tales this summer. Use Beanstack to log reading time & activities, write reviews, connect with friends, and submit raffle tickets for prizes. Prizes include grand prize baskets, small gift cards, and book sets. Participants can also join our Million Minute Challenge to help us beat last summer’s reading time! Visit http://hvlibrary.org/children/reading-programs/ for more information. Sponsored by Friends of Huntingdon Valley Library.
Registration for summer events is now open! Visit the event calendar at HVLibrary.org for more information and to sign up.
Huntingdon Valley Library is now OPEN for Grab & Go and Contactless Pickup services. We can’t wait to see you this summer!