Media Center

2025 Book Fair

Online shopping is open through Friday September 26. Head to the store to shop or purchase gift cards for your students to shop at school.

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Student Media Resources

The Bell Shoals Library & Media Center is a great resource available to our students and families to find family-friendly books, videos, and DVDs for all ages.

Our online catalog is available to search and renew books once you register and log in with your username and password.

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Summer Reading Lists

Reading over the summer is crucial for preventing cumulative skill loss, which can result in students losing up to three months of progress. By encouraging Summer reading, we can help our students stay academically on track.

Suggested reading lists will be posted at the end of the school year.

Battle of the Books

Our competitive readers have a unique opportunity each year to compete in the Battle of the Books! They work together in teams to read and answer questions that challenge them and provide a fun environment for reading comprehension skill development.

Additional Resources

TeachersFirst.com (The Source for Learning, Inc., 2018)–includes links to reviewed websites offering information on a variety of topics for our teachers, parents, and students. Topics include copyright and fair use, plagiarism, citing sources/writing a bibliography, cyber safety, and information literacy in the 21st century-effectively searching and evaluating information. Search the terms “Copyright” or “Digital Citizenship.”

Hillsborough County Public Schools (Adapted from Common Sense Media by Hillsborough County Public Schools, 2018)- An excellent resource for understanding digital citizenship. Includes information on these and other topics: online safety, privacy and security, communication, cyberbullying, information literacy, creative credit and copyright, and social media use.

Media Center Policies & Procedures

Library Hours – Open for students during the school week from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m., and some afternoons.

Behavior – The Media Center is both a library and a classroom. Students are expected to use quiet voices, as they would in any other library. No food or drinks are permitted in the library at any time.

Borrowing Books – Checkout period is two weeks. Books may be renewed for an additional two weeks as long as no hold has been placed on that volume and the book is not overdue. K–2 students may check out one book at a time; students in grades 3–9 may check out two. Books may be returned at any time through our drop-off slot, to a homeroom teacher, or on the next class visit. Overdue books will cause report cards to be held at the end of a quarter, including the end of the school year. Videos may not be checked out by a student; however, parents may do so for a period of one week.

Late/Lost/Damaged Items – We do not charge fees for overdue books. Students with overdue materials cannot check out additional items until the late item is returned. If a student loses an item, the purchase price of that item will be charged. If an item is damaged but still usable, 25% of the purchase price will be charged for repairs. If an item is damaged beyond use, the full purchase price will be charged. Overdue and fee notices are sent daily at 2 p.m. on weekdays, and a PayIt link is included to pay for lost or damaged items.