Welcome to wonderful reading in the Lang Ranch Library!
Jane Meade, Librarian

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The library has five search computers for students and teachers to use as a card catalog.    A tiered seating area is situated in one corner of the library where students sit while listening to stories read to them by the librarian when visiting the library. 

The library currently has a collection of  16,500 books that can be checked out by Lang Ranch students and teachers.  The complete room size is approximately 2500 square feet and is able to accommodate two classes visiting the library at the same time.

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Lost or Damaged Book Fees

LIBRARY SCHEDULE 2011-2012

	Monday     12:30-1:00 Bechthold and Jones   1:00-1:30 Gifford and Moore
	Tuesday     8:30 - 9:00 Cain   9:00 - 9:15 Sendejas   9:15 - 9:30 Atkins   11:00-11:30 Carroll   12:30-1:00 Hall and Balfour   1:00-1:30 Martin and Alexander   1:30-2:00 Nordstrom and Moreno
	Wednesday     8:30 - 9:00 Raaf   9:00 - 9:15 Lynch   9:15 - 9:45 Ackmann   11:00 - 11:30 Virgen and Vlerick   12:30 - 1:00 Speidel and Cano   1:00 - 1:30 Golem and Hargrave   1:30-2:00 Sweet and Traut
	Thursday     8:30-9:00 Matter   9:00-9:30 MacDonald   1:00-1:30 Barnhart and Tracy

Helpful Websites

Lang Ranch Birthday Book Club

Please check out the Birthday Book Club program!  Students are encouraged to purchase a new book for the library.  A book plate with their name is placed in the book and the student receives a certificate.  Sometimes a student is able to pick out a new book in the library to purchase for this program.  Visit the library for more information.

Scholastic Reading Counts

Search Our Reading Counts List

Reading Counts is a reading motivation and management program that helps encourage and monitor independent reading.  It helps match students with texts on their reading level.  The library currently has approximately 6000 books that have quizzes to match the books.  These books are marked as  Reading Counts books with colored dots on the spines.  After reading a book, students are able to take a quiz to check their comprehension skills.  The quizzes are available to take on computers in the classrooms.

Enter your reading level in the “Book Level” fields, or Lexile number. You may want to use a range of levels to get titles near your reading level – like 5.0 to 6.0. Then put something in the “Subject” field that you are interested in. Click “Get Books” and see how many you get. If any of the titles look good to you, click on the title to read more about the book.

You can save the titles you are interested in to your “Printer List” by clicking on the check box next to the author’s name and then clicking “Add Selected Books” under the “My Printer List” heading on the side. Do several searches and add as many books to your printer list as you like. When you are done, Click on “Print List” to send your selected titles to your printer.

The building of the Library:

The new "Hay Loft" is ready! Students will now have a fun little nook to hang out in and read! Thank you Mr. Rhoads for all of your hard work.

HAPPY READING!