DEAL MS LIBRARY NEWS!

Greetings Families,

We are beginning the 2nd term already! The year seems to be moving along quickly with the winter holiday season fast approaching. The library will be submitting the yearly budget this month. I always rely on student and teacher recommendations when I put together our list of new titles to order each year. This year, I am sharing a link to the library's book recommendation form for families to engage with the process as well! See the link below if you would like to make some recommendations for the library. I try to honor all or most of the reasonable requests that meet our age range and curricular goals. I will also be publishing a list next month of the most requested and popular titles of the year for families looking for gift ideas or a great read for the upcoming breaks. See the list below or click on the image to be directed to the book recommendation survey:

Book Recommendation Form - Make suggestions for new books for the Deal Library!

Please help us with our Battle of the Books Wishlist at Politics and Prose!

This wishlist is to support the Battle of the Books competition and reading initiative at Deal MS for school year 2025-26.

The goal is to purchase 20 copies of the books for the school and encourage families to purchase additional copies for individual use. Battle of the Books is a great way to encourage our students to read award-winning books and test their knowledge in a friendly competition with their peers! We hope to have both a schoolwide competition with teams from each grade competing to determine which students will advance to the district wide competition. You can learn more about the district competition here:

https://dcla.org/DCLA-Battle-of-the-Books

We hope to provide every student at Deal with access to these titles and participate in the Battle of the Books, a schoolwide trivia contest! Please help us support this initiative by purchasing books for the school at the Politics and Prose Alice Deal Book Fair on November 16th or online by using the wishlist link below:

Https://politics-prose.com/wishlist/7152175339255482

I have created a web collection of school and public library links to supplement the CommonLit 360 ELA curriculum. The link has now been updated to include texts for Unit 2. Here students can find access points to school and public library resources for recommended texts with additional resources that support unit themes. Students can checkout and place items on hold or checkout digital copies from a device. The collection is updated throughout the school year to provide access to recommended titles as units change. See the link below for more information:

Https://bit.ly/ADMSLibraryLibGuide_ELA_Resources

Mr. Reichlen creates a new display of book recommendations each month. Also, students and families have the opportunity to make featured recommendations for the library displays by filling the linked form: https://bit.ly/DealMSLibraryRecommend

More information about the Must Read lists and digital resources on the web at the Library's LibGuide Page: https://bit.ly/DealMSLibGuide

- A libguide is a public facing website that provides additional information for the library, reading recommendations, monthly news and themes, ELA resources, and research help and tips! The libguide is curated and managed by Mr. Reichlen. Please reach out if you have additional questions or comments.

Give additional feedback using the Deal Library Survey Form:

https://bit.ly/deal_library_survey_2024

The SORA app is located in Clever, the DCPS hub for digital learning. Students have access to thousands of e-books, audiobooks, interactive readers, and magazines! New titles are added on a regular basis. Students can access SORA through the app available for iOS, Kindle, and Android platforms in addition to accessing through the web. Click on the image to learn more.

Featured Native American History Month Collection

The library and LibGuide provide students and families with lots of resources to learn about and celebrate Native American Heritage Month. See the link below or click on the image to learn more.

LibGuide - Monthly Showcase: https://dcps.libguides.com/c.php?g=1333065&p=9875036

The DC ONE Card was retired by DCPS on September 30th. DCPS students historically, used the DC One Card to access many of the DCPL databases available to them via Clever. This applies to apps specifically found in the "Library Resources" section of Clever. This includes:

The Washington Post Archive

DCPL Go Digital

Brainfuse Homework Help

JSTOR

GALE

BookFLIX

and any other app containing DCPL or DC Public Library in the title.

DCPS students will now use:

Username: DCPS{StudentID}

Pin: StudentID

For additional information, refer to the ​Student Access FAQ​.

Students will have to choose to update their login in Clever with the above convention. For example if a student's ID number is 1234567 the username will be: DCPS1234567. They may also have to input this login when they are redirected to the DC Public Library website again. See the Student Access FAQ above for more info or reach out to me if you have additional questions. These are all great apps for research and personal use. Students also have the ability to check out physical books from DCPL with this account as well which they will have to retrieve from a branch of the public library.

Students at Deal will be checking out books during the month of September during our beginning of the year library orientation. Students are allowed to have up to 5 books out at a time and will begin to receive overdue notices after 30 days. Mr. Reichlen sends out two emails to families per year. One will go out before the winter break and one goes out at the end of May or early June. There are no fines for lost or damaged books but books that do not get returned will end up on the student's record through high school unless the student or family communicates with Mr. Reichlen. The library will also accept donations of new or gently used hard cover books published within the last 5 years and age-appropriate for 6th grade students. Students will never be disciplined for lost materials and it will not affect future checkouts as long as Mr. Reichlen is notified. To read the full library policy document, click on the image.