Photo from the Children's Room

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Teachers

Quick Helps

  • Ask for a longer loan period than the usual three weeks if it fits better with your plans.
  • We will visit your class for stories, book talks, and/or information about the library.
  • Bring your class for a tour, stories, book talks, or explanation of the online catalog.
  • The library has a Parent/ Teacher Collection of books and magazines.
  • With a PIN number you can reserve and renew materials online.
  • The PCSC textbooks are here for students who forget to bring their textbook home.

Just for Teachers!

  • Call us - 839-6602 x109 - if you would like us to pull and hold books from a list or on a topic for you to stop in and pick up.
  • Sadly, now that we are part of Evergreen Indiana, teachers who teach in Guilford Twp. but live outside the township may no longer get 'Teacher Cards.'

Bring Your Class

We'd love to see your class at the library. Call a week or more ahead to schedule your visit. That way, we'll be ready for you, and your visit won't conflict with a library program or another class visit. When you visit, we can offer:

  • Tours and orientation to the Children's Room.
  • Group project reference help.
  • "How to find a book" using our online catalog.
  • Theme or general book talks (also available in your classroom).
  • Browsing and checking out books by students, mix and match with the above.

Services for Children

  • Help finding books by author, title, subject, series or keyword.
  • "Reader's advisory," which often starts with, "I'm looking for a good book."
  • Story Line - a phone story which changes weekly. 839-6602, then press 6.
  • Kid Kits for children who are ill or taking a trip. A staff member chooses a bag of library materials based on the child's reading level and interests. Each kit may include books, tapes, puzzles, magazines and paper-and-pencil activities.
  • Reserves on checked out materials.
  • "Interlibrary Loans" if our library doesn't have the book you need.
  • Children's Activities. These are free, but preregistration is usually required. They include family programs, topic-based programs for the school aged, early literacy story programs for babies, toddlers, 2 & 3-year-olds, 4 & 5-year-olds, all ages, and assorted programs for primary and tween children. In summer we have many special activities, and a Summer Reading Program to encourage children to keep their reading levels up by reading for pleasure.

Children's Materials to Check Out

  • Books
  • Encyclopedias
  • Magazines
  • Books on CD, and music CDs
  • Videos
  • DVDs