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Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island
85 Taft Avenue
Providence, RI 02906
(401)751-2470
FAX: (401)351-7674
Email: info@jcdsri.org

 


The Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island Fishbein Library Overview

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Librarian and Website Coordinator

Karolyn White, BS, MS, CAGS, appointed 1993, alumni parent, Voice Mail: 82 E-mail: kwhite@jcdsri.org

Resources

Our library is automated by Follett/Sagebrush Software and contains approximately 5,000 volumes for Grades PreK-8. For example, there are some 400 items in the Reference Collection and over 2,000 items in the Fiction Collection. Collections include Primary, Intermediate, and MS Judaica, Autographed, Periodical, Audiocassette, Videocassette, DVD, and CD-ROM. There are four computers for student use as well as a TV, and VCR, DVD and CD players. Students may borrow books from Temple Emanu-El’s library, which is adjacent to our library.

Classes

Grades PreK-5 have a weekly, 45-minute class. Class activities may include stories, poetry, book reviews, artwork, puppetry, dramatizations, research problems and games, and researching.

News

A Library Monthly Newsletter is posted on the school website in the Newsletter section.

After School Club

For eight years the library has offered after school clubs. Our current clubs are Book Buddies, which involves books and activities based on a theme, and Knitty Gritty, which teaches knitting.

READING INCENTIVE PROGRAMS Rhode Island Children’s Book Award Program, Children’s Book Week, Reading Week, Jewish Book Month, Read Across America, Summer Reading Lists, the Library Summer Reading Program, and others.

SPECIAL ANNUAL EVENTS Bookworm Library Program, Scholastic Book Fair, Reading Week with a Visiting Author, Book Awards Celebration, Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Poetry Month, National Library Week, Teddy Bear Celebration and others.

VOLUNTEERS are needed to help with library tasks such as cataloging books on Mondays and Fridays. Other times may be arranged. Please feel free to drop by and help.

Thank you for all your support!

Please help your children return library books and use their library book bags. Karolyn White
 

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