Opening Hours
The Williams-Parker Library is open during the school week from 7:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. and closes at 3:30 p.m. on Fridays and days immediately before holidays.
Finding Materials
Books can be found using the computerized library catalog by entering author, title, subject or key words.
Borrowing of Materials
All Brookwood students, faculty, staff and parents are welcome to check materials out of the Williams-Parker Library.
Books
Lower School students may borrow up to eight items at a time for a period of 10 school days. Middle and Upper School students may borrow up to eight items at a time for a period of 20 days. Items may be renewed for an additional loan period if not requested by another student or teacher. Although late notices are issued, the date due slip is the patron's reminder to bring materials back on time.
Late Books/Replace Charges
Materials must be returned on time so that other patrons may have the chance to use them. Lost or damaged materials must be paid for in full. Damaged materials include rain-soaked books and books in which there is writing. Take care of library materials so that others can benefit from them after you.
Reserve Books
Teachers may place books on reserve shelves (behind the circulation desk) for classes to share. Faculty requests for reserves should be given the librarian.
Reference Books
All reference books and encyclopedias are non-circulating. Copies may be made in the Upper School Library
Periodicals
The Library subscribes to approximately 100 magazines and newspapers. Back issues of magazines are housed in the reference room. Periodicals may be used in the library or photocopied, but do not circulate. Infrotrac provides online access to the full text version of magazines dating back to 1989.
Vertical File
Maps, pictures, pamphlets, etc. maybe checked out for one week. Emphasis has been placed on collecting historical information about Thomasville, Thomas County and Georgia. The Vertical File is located in the Reference Room.
Research Hints
Download Research Hints (PDF)
Exhibit proper library behavior
Know and follow library rules and procedures
Know rules of basic care of library materials
Know that materials in the library have a specific arrangement
Resources:
Book: What Happened to Marion's Book?
Locate title page and identify the following:
Title, author, illustrator, publisher, place of publication
Locate copyright date of the book
Learn that easy fiction is arranged by author's last name
Learn to place easy fiction call numbers in order
Locate an easy picture book on the shelf by using call number
Locate and use magazines in the library
Student will know procedure to renew a book and place a book on hold
Resources:
Workbook: Practice in Library Skills-Grade 1
Game: Brookwood Express
Video: A Magical Journey Through the Library
Locate table of contents and index
Use table of contents and index to locate information
Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction books
Understand how fiction and non-fiction books are arranged on the shelf
Arrange nonfiction call numbers
Locate easy and junior fiction books on the shelves using call numbers
Resources:
Workbork: Practice in Library Skills-Grade 2
Game: What's the Word?
Game: Brookwood 500
Game: Dewey Match
Game: Shelf Finder
Game: Library Trivia Quest - Level 1
Use the card/electronic catalog to locate materials by
title, author, subject, series, and keyword search
Able to identify information found in the fields of a MARC record
Able to understand the difference in the call number for different types of books
Able to identfy by call number the location of books (Lower School or Upper School Library)
Using the card/electronic catalog's book bag option, compile and print a list
Locate and use the collective and individual biograpy sections of the library
Make call numbers for biographies using the subject's last name
Resources:
Workbook: Practice in Library Skills - Grade 3
Game: Rabbits in the Magician's Hat
Game: A Peck of Apples
Game: What's the Word?
Game: Library Trivia Quest - Level 1
Video: A First Look at Your Library Media Center
Locate parts of the book and know their purpose
Learn to judge realiability of reference sources based on the following criteria:
accuracy, authority, objectivity, currrency, comprehensiveness
Learn to narrow or broaden searches using the card catalog
Learn to judge a book's usefulness
Locate and use simple reference books
dictionary, encyclopeida, atlas, almanac, biographical dictionary, thesaurus
Identify the differences among reference books and how to locate informaiton in each
Resources:
Workbook: Practice in Library Skills - Grade 4
Game: What's the Word?
Game: Guide Word Galaxy
Game: Library Lingo
Game: Library Trivia Quest - Level 2
Video: A First Look at YOur LIbrary
Treasure Hunt sponosored by Bound to Stay Bound Book Company
Reseach Project: Explorers of the World
Underrstand that there are ten main classes of the Dewey Decimal Classification system and they can be divided and subdivided into more specifi areas
Identify primary and secondary information sources
Be able to read information and record the main idea(s) in his/her own words
Be able to use specialized reference sources to obtain information
Learner will be able to use multiple information resources to gather information
Use appropriate search engines to access information on the Internet
Construct a search strategy using keyworkds and Boolean searching
Use magzine indices to retieve articles on a specific topic
Recognize the difference between a citation, an abstract, and a full-text article
Resources:
Workbook: Practice in Library Skills - Grade 5
Game: Dewey Decimal Bingo
Game: Internet Scavenger Hunt
Game: Library Trivia Quest - Level 2
Video: Using the Internet for Research
Research Project: Daughters of the American Revolution Essay Contest (research topic varies each year)
The Georgia Children's Book Award was established in 1968 by a professor in the College of Education at the University of Georgia. The purpose of the award is to foster a love of reading in the children of Georgia and to introduce them to a collection of books worthy of receiving an award for literary excellence. Teachers and librarians are encourged to read the books aloud to their students.
The award is given in two categories-picture books and novels-and is chosen from a list of titles suggested by a committee. The books receiving the most votes from the children of Georgia are the winners . The authors and illustrators of the winning books are often featured speakers at the annual Conference On Children's Literature held at the University of Georgia.
Each year our school purchases the books from the nominted list and make these available to teaches and students. Voting takes palce March.
The website for the program is
http://www.coe.uga.edu
Michael P. White is an award-winning artist and illustrator of The Library Dragon, The Secret of Old Zeb and Harriet's Horrible Hair Day. He considers visiting schools across the United States and artist's dream job. While at Brookwood he showed the students how one idea can start a story. Each class received instruction in how he creates his characters. His presentation was followed by an autograph party in the Williams-Parker Library.
January 28, 2005
Jane Kurtz was born in Portland, Oregon, but when two years old her parents moved to Ethiopia. When in fourth grade, she left for boarding school. Her family left Ethiopia in the late 1970's and she attended college in the United States. In 1994, Jane began writing books drawing on her childhood memories of growing up in Ethiopia. Jane has published 22 books: early readers, nonfiction books, professional books for teachers, picture books and novels.
http://www.janekurtz.com
May 6, 2005
Children's book author and storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy was born in Havana, Cuba, immigrated to the United States with her family in 1963 and grew up in Decatur, Georgia. She has authored six children's books and has won more than a numerous awards. Ms. Deedy lives in Atlanta. Ms. Deedy mesmerized our students with her stories and autographed books they had purchased.
She is one we will not soon forget. She was a delight!!!
January 20, 2006
Mrs. Alexander is the publisher and illustrator of a series of books written to teach children the geography and history of Georgia. She uses a ficitonal character, Yumion, who is a walking talking Vidalia onion who visits real life places. During her visit to Brookwood, Mrs. Alexander explained in simple terms how a book is made and then uses slides of photographs she has taken to show how she transfroms the pictures into illustrations in the books.
Copies of her books were sold and the students talked with her, had their pictures taken with her and had thier books autographed by the author.
http://www.besweetpublications.com
February 24, 2006
Ms. Baggott is a writer (not an author, she says) of books for adults and younger readers and is currently a member of the Florida State University's Creative Writing Program. Her books for younger readers which she writes under the pen name N.E. Bode are The Anybodies, The Nobodies and The Somebodies. Students in second through seventh grade received some advice from her about writing. The Williams-Parker Libvrary sponsored an autograph party with punch and cookies and students enjoyed talking with the author as she autographed their books. Check out her website. It has many fun activities that correlate with her books.
http://www.theanybodies.com
