Media Center Hours of Operation:
Sunday 8:30 am – 12:15 pm
Monday 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Wednesday 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Book Drop is located in the Ark wing.
The standard period for checking out a book is one month.
Volunteers:
The Media Center always needs willing, enthusiastic, and dedicated volunteers.
Duties of volunteers include availability to provide assistance for two hours once a month with the circulation desk, shelving, processing of books, and promotion.
To sign up to be a volunteer, contact Dr. John Hull or the librarian, Jean Anderson.
Contents:
The books are arranged according to Dewey Decimal System. The library collection is composed of 7500 – 8000 volumes plus videos and audios for all ages and topical classifications.
The largest number of books are in the areas of fiction, children – easy, and religion. Biographies, junior fiction and non-fiction, gardening, how-to books, history and holiday books round out the collection.
The Dewey Decimal System:
To help your search for a particular book, utilize the ten main categories of the Dewey Decimal System:
100 – PHILOSOPHY / PSYCHOLOGY
200 – RELIGION
300 – SOCIOLOGY
400 – LANGUAGE
500 – NATURAL SCIENCES (astronomy, geology)
600 – APPLIED SCIENCES (agriculture, manufacturing)
700 – FINE ART
800 – LTERATURE
900 – GEOGRAPHY, BIOGRAHY, and HISTORY
000 – GENERAL (encyclopedias, bibliographies)