Welcome parents to our amazing SAS Pudong Elementary Library…

Welcome to the 2014-2015 school year and a special welcome to any new patrons… we are so excited to have you as part of our community. I think you’ll agree with me that the facilities we have at SAS are second to none, and when it comes to the Libraries at our school, that is indeed the case. Our Shanghai American School Library houses the largest collection of English books in the entire country of China, and although our ES Pudong library is the smallest of our 4 libraries, it has over 30,000 titles in its collection…How lucky are we?

Our technology resources are also growing all the time; we currently have 60 kindles, 60 Ipod nano’s and 11 Ipads all loaded with books, (some kindles have over 150 books on them) so there is no shortage of new reading material available. If there is a book you want to read, and we don’t have it in our Pudong Elementary library, check destiny to see if we have it somewhere else, like Middle School, or Puxi Campus. If you can’t find it there, let me know and I’ll order it for next year, as well as buying on kindle, audio or ibooks if it is available.

We encourage your children to please return your library books AS you finish them; do not wait until your library day to return books. Please return your books to your classroom library basket, OR to the plastic tub that will be in the main hallway as you enter school in the morning, by the back library door. We are NOT allowing you into the library before school at all. You are allowed 14 days for each book checked out, and one library cycle for technology, however, if you finish early, please return your item.

Guidelines for Check Out

EVERY student in Elementary must check out at least ONE non-fiction book each check out period.

Pre K-1st Grade you are to check out up to 5 books at a time. We’d like you to always check out ONE non-fiction book (at least). You are also allowed to check out one magazine or one DVD too, as well as fiction books in the Primary Library.

Grade 2-Grade 5 students, you guys can have UNLIMITED check-out privileges; so use your common sense and make sure you don’t check out more books than you can read.

Grade 2-Grade 5 students, like I said, your check out is unlimited, within that, you can check out a maximum of:

1 Graphic Novel

2 DVD’s

3 Books in a Series

Lunch Recess Time Library Visits

Monday and Wednesday-Grades 2 and 4 are allowed to check out in the library during their lunch recess time. If the day is too hot/wet/polluted you are welcome to stay and read. If the day is fine, we’ll send you out to play once you’ve checked out your books.

Tuesday and Thursday-Grades 3 and 5 are allowed to check out in the library during their lunch recess time. If the day is too hot/wet/polluted you are welcome to stay and read. If the day is fine, we’ll send you out to play once you’ve checked out your books.

I can’t wait to greet you all in the library, with over 1,000 new books, bringing our collection to over 30,000 items, there really is something in our library for everyone!