About
The Spartanburg High School library serves approximately 1550 students in grades 10-12. To provide extended access to our facility and our resources, we open at 7:00 and close at 3:30. Students may come before and after school without a pass or from study hall classes with a pass. We limit the lunch crowd to twenty students so make sure to pick up a lunch pass from one of the library staff members. Our collection of over 22,000 items includes books, Playaways, CDs, videos, DVDs, and magazines. Users can find items by using our Destiny catalog. Our patrons, both students and teachers, continue to help us maintain the quality of our collection by giving us suggestions for titles to add to our holdings.
Our books, CDs, and Playaways (digital audiobooks) circulate for a period of two weeks; videos and magazines circulate for two days. Reference books do circulate but only overnight. As fines are assessed for overdue items, attention to due dates is important. Having the library staff renew items is always an option.
Guidelines about rules and expectations for library usage, Internet Safety, study hall access are both published in the Parent/Student Handbook and displayed within the SHS library.
As always, if you have questions about the library media center, you can call the school at 864-594-4410 ext:7232 and ask for Susan Myers, Irene Tighe, or Myra Webb.
Philosophy
We endeavor to develop in all students and staff the ability to access and use information independently in a variety of formats. The resulting skills support, enrich, and supplement classroom instruction; stimulate intellectual curiosity and creativity; support the acquisition of knowledge and undertanding of the world; develop critical judgement and aesthetic appreciation; and, not least, celebrate reading.
Principal's Reading Honor Roll
The Principal's Reading Honor Roll is a reading club/program that remains popular with our students. We value our students input and participation and interaction is an important component of the club. Reading thirty books and blogging on our VikingsRead blog earns the recognition of our principal, Mr. Jeff Stevens. In addition to our normal circulation, 45 participating SHS students read a total of 1290 books last year! Go PRHR participants! Our club meets from 7:25 to 7:55 in the library lounge on the following dates: 9/11; 11/13; 1/8; and 3/12. All are welcome; join our blog to request books, review books, and suggest books to your fellow readers.
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