Three schools are described in the document: Weber City Elementary School, Gate City Middle School (GCMS) library, and Gate City High School (GCHS) Library. Weber City Elementary has over 400 students and high standardized test scores. GCMS library has books, computers, storage areas, and work spaces. GCHS library has over 9,000 resources including books, databases, and research stations. Photos show facilities and resources at each school.

1. At the moment that we persuade a What a school
child, any child, to cross that
thinks about its
threshold, that magic threshold into
library is a
a library, we change their lives
measure of what it
--President Barack Obama
forever, for the better.
thinks about
A library is not a luxury but education.
one of the necessities of --Harold Howe, former US
Commissioner of Education
life.
Libraries
--Henry Ward Beecher
enable the
quot;School libraries help teachers teach and
children learned. Children and teachers need
library resources--especially books--and the
past to talk
expertise of a librarian to succeed. Books,
information technology and school librarians
to the
who are part of the schools' professional
team are basic ingredients for student
future. --Edward Cornish
achievement.quot;
Former First Lady, Laura Bush

2. A Look at School Libraries
Elementary, Middle, & High School

3. Weber City Elementary School
• Quick Facts
– Total Enrollment: 415
– Total Staff: 47
– Staff to Student Ratio: 8.8 : 1
– Highly Qualified Teachers: 94%
• Standards of Learning Data 07-08
– Reading: 93%
– Writing: 97%
– Mathematics: 92%
– History: 89.95%
– Science: 98%
– Phonological Awareness K-2: 97%

4. WCE Library Circulation Desk

5. View from the Circulation Desk

6. Books

7. The Back Wall of Books

8. A little nook within the library
The closet on the right is used for storage.

9. Spring Decor
These were used last year and saved to use again this year. The librarian
explained that she places these on top of the book shelves with little
picket fences that she has made, then displays spring books.

10. Behind the Circulation Desk

11. Classroom Crates
These crates are filled with books each week. The librarian prepares each
teacher one crate each week with books to keep within the classroom.

12. Clifford welcomes
students to the library.

13. Books on Tape/CD

14. Work Room

16. Work Desk

17. More Work Area

19. Storage Room

20. Teacher Resources

22. Doors to the Library

23. Welcome to GCMS Library

24. Computers and Tables

25. GCMS Library

26. Computers

28. Storage

29. Magazine Area

30. One of two couches located within the library

31. Far left corner of the library

33. Standing at the back of the library,
looking towards the library entrance

34. Work/Meeting Space

35. GCMS Library Circulation Desk

36. To the right of library entrance

37. Work
Room

38. Storage Room

39. Gate City High School Library
The GCHS Library/Media Center has a collection of over 9,000 books and non-book
resources, three card-catalog search stations, and five multi-media research stations.
Computerized research includes these encyclopedias: Americana, Grolier, Compton's
Multi-Media, and World Book. Ongoing subscriptions to electronic databases include
InfoTrac (a computerized version of the Abridged Reader's Guide), and SIRS
RESEARCHER. Other computerized programs include Discovering Authors, Twayne's
author series, Time Almanac, Broadcast News, and a host of other programs to
supplement the high school's instructional programs.

40. Can you find the librarian in this picture? 
This is the first view upon entering the library.

41. Looking to your right upon entering the library

42. Upon rounding the corner, entering the library

43. Card Catalog Computers

44. Behind the Circulation Desk

45. Also Behind the Circulation Desk

46. Work Room

47. More Work Room

48. More Work Room

49. TV Storage?
This is where I remember it always being…perhaps so teacher who come
to use it won’t have to worry with rolling it all throughout the
library??...That’s my guess.

50. *Yawn…*

51. Looking Towards the Entrance to the Library

52. A Little Nook in the Corner of the Library

53. Computers

54. Magazine Area

55. More Tables

56. A View from another angle

57. Small room within the library
This room was being used for testing when I visited,
but it is also used for AP classes.

58. Directly outside the small classroom

59. Above the Computers