Teacher Services

Class and Group Visits

School groups or other local organizations are welcome to visit the library! Visits are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact the Children's Librarian at 785-7709 for available dates. Please call a minimum of two weeks in advance to schedule a visit or workshop. Application forms are available if students wish to get library cards.

Preschool visits may include a storytime, craft, and browsing time.

School age (Grades K-6) visits may include a tour, stories, an orientation to library services, basic library skills instruction, research time, browsing and checkout. Design your own visit from the options above, or choose one of our themed visits below.

Each themed visit includes a library tour, story, activity, craft, and browsing/checkout time if students wish to get library cards. The clue activities are a fun way to help students discover and remember where resources in the Children's Room are located and will make their library visit a memorable one! Suggested time for each visit is 1.5 hours.

Library Detectives

Starting with the story The Web Files by Margie Palatini, students will become Library Detectives! The program includes their very own case to solve - The Dirty Rat and the Stolen Crafts. Students will follow clues around the children's room to find the location of their missing decoder watch craft projects, which they can put together once they've solved the case!

Library Pirates

Arrrggghhh! Students will get into the pirate spirit with a couple of great pirate stories, then follow the treasure map clues around the children's room to find a hidden surprise! After the activity, kids can make their own pirate spyglass to take home.

Workshops on planning and conducting storytimes or on selecting developmentally appropriate literature for children (infants, toddlers, preschoolers, or school age) are available upon request for high school and college classes as well as community agencies serving youth and parents.