2006/2007 St. Patrick School Library staff.
Back row: Shelly Christiansen, Amy Hartnett, Jen Weseli, Sue Krueger, Mary Pat Finnegan, Robyn Borchart.
Front row: Florence Simon, Mary Seyer, Teresa Sadrakula-Librarian, Peggy Geissler, Marybeth Lorbiecki.
St. Patrick School library history.
St. Patrick School library originally was a church library housed in the basement of the old church on St. Croix St. In the late1960’s Ester Berlin a retired librarian living in the parish helped move the church library to the school, to the room that is now the office. She was also instrumental in gaining Title II grants to start a proper school library. The library opened to students the fall of 1968. In 1973 the library space was needed as a classroom & the Sisters of St. Agnes were no longer living upstairs in the convent. Under the helm of new librarian Florence Simon the library was moved upstairs into the convents’ living room and kitchen area. During the major renovation of 2002 our library doubled its size and was moved to a more central location where it is located today. Again under Florence Simon’s guidance in 2003 the library became fully automated and currently houses 8,716 volumes and growing.
The library is staffed Monday – Thursday for the students and staff use.
Library schedule:
Monday: 6S, 6W, 1P
Tuesday: 5T, 3O, 3F, 8WB, 8D, 2P
Wednesday: Pre-KAM, Pre-KPM, 1M, 2C, 4W
Thursday: K-AM, K-PM, 7F, 5C, 4B, 7M
Library Rules:
Books may be checked out for two (2) weeks.
No more than two books at a time.
You may not take out any new books if you have any overdue books.
Library Programs:
Each year we participate in the WEMA Golden Archer Award. Students are asked to vote for their favorite book from a student-selected group of five books. When voting is complete at St. Patrick’s our votes are sent in to the Golden Archer Award committee who compiles all of the votes from students around Wisconsin. There are three winning authors, one from each level, Primary, Intermediate & Middle school. After the winners are announced we start the nominating process for the books to be read the following school year. The students enjoy reading the books & voting for their favorites, hoping they will be the winner for all of Wisconsin.
This school year the library is participating in the Scholastic “Classrooms Care” Program. The library aides read a story to the Pre-K– 4th grade classes at the end of their library time each week. We are keeping a list of all the books read. When we have read 100 books Scholastic will donate 100 books to a library in need in our name. Inner city libraries, Katrina devastated libraries are some examples.
“Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” Jim Rohn.
