Media Center
Mission
Our media program focuses on providing library media instruction integrated with classroom learning. Instruction is designed to teach media appreciation and information skills that meet the learner outcomes across all instructional areas. In addition, our media staff is responsible for helping integrate technology and research skills into the curriculum in our building.
We service over 750 patrons through regularly scheduled media classes, informal research groups, in-services to staff members and parents, as well as one on one instruction. Currently, we are teaching 38 classes of students in grades Pre-K-5 each week and have a weekly circulation of over 1200 books. Our collection is chosen with care to reflect the needs of all students and staff at Linton Springs.
The media center is open each morning between the hours of 8:05 to 8:30 for independent check-out, and students are invited to visit after unpacking in their classroom. During media classes, Kindergarten, First and Second Graders check out one book each week. Third-graders check out one book each week during the first two quarters and switch to two books every other week during the last two quarters. Fourth and Fifth graders check out two books every other week. Extra books may be checked out for research purposes at any time.
We have 29 search stations for catalog and Internet access. In addition, our web-based catalog is available on any computer with an internet connection. Our collection provides an abundance of quality resources in all formats to meet a wide range of learner abilities, developmental levels, and modalities.
Book Check Out Procedures
Students can come in and switch out books after checking in with classroom teachers during the mornings.
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Grade |
Maximum Number of Books at a time |
Frequency |
Location |
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Kindergarten |
1 |
Weekly |
August-September: Picture Book Shelves October-June: |
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First |
1 |
Weekly |
Shelves – Open Access |
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Second |
1 |
Weekly |
Shelves – Open Access |
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Third |
1 |
Every Week - First & Second Quarter |
Shelves – Open Access |
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Fourth, & Fifth |
2 | Every Other Week | Shelves - Open Access |
Overdue/Lost/Damaged Books
Books are due on check out days (see above). K-2 books are due every week. Grade 3 books are due every week until the third quarter when we switch to every other week. Grade 4-5 books are due every other week. Students may exchange a book at any time in the morning during arrival after checking in with their homeroom teachers. Students may not check out books if they have more than 2 books a month overdue. If a student loses or damages a book, please contact the media center via email, note, or phone call. We will print a receipt with the replacement cost for the book and send it home with the student. We can only accept checks. Please make checks payable to Linton Springs Elementary School.
Computer Usage
We offer 29 computer search stations and 2 mobile labs!
Click on the Follett Destiny logo below to access our media catalog. Destiny is available at school and home for students to search for media books.
SORA is our online eBook platform and is available from the home page of Destiny or by clicking on the logo below.
Clever is a great place to start to access many tools used in the classroom.
Our goal is to teach children how to use and access these information tools as well as many more in various formats.
Programs & Events
- Book Fair
- Battle of the Books
- School Library Media Month
- MD Black Eyed Susan
- Read Across America
- LSE Reads Program
- CCPL Summer Reading Program
- WLSE Announcements
Book Fair
2024 Book Fair
We would like to thank all the students, staff and parents that volunteered their time to make our book fair such a success this year. Your purchases enable us to provide new books for the media center and subscriptions to online databases such as World Book Online, BookFlix, PebbleGo, PebbleGo Next and many others for students to use for research. Due to your generosity, we were able to provide over $350 worth of books to students who otherwise would not have been able to purchase a book and over $500 of gift certificates to teachers to enhance their classroom libraries.
Thank you very much for supporting our Book Fair and Media Center!
Battle of the Books
Battle of the Books Information from the CCPL
The CCPL Battle of the Books website has been updated with the new book lists for elementary and middle school. https://library.carr.org/programs/BoB.asp.
Book Sets-The Friends group has generously donated book sets to each registered team. All books are also available in digital formats.
Congratulations to our second and third place teams!
Second Place - Book Bobs
Jase Vogel, Luke Roland, Caleb Kurian, Dylan Rosebrough, Reed Gardner, Andrew Warren, Edward Cramer. Benjamin Scible, Gabe Jump
Third Place - The Book Ballers
Thomas Cover, Carter Gatzke, Jackson Jordan, Colin Ong, Ryan Pacak, Louis Rambert, Tilman Weaver, Archer Kincanon, Serafim Boleac
School Library Media Month
April is School Library Media Month. We will be celebrating our media center all month long!
Students are voting for their favorite Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Picture Book in Grades K – 3 and their favorite Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Chapter Book or Graphic Novel in Grades 4 – 5. Votes will be sent into the state.
To encourage students to try a new book, we have hidden books designated as "Stars of the Month" all through our book shelves. If a student finds one and checks it out, we will take their picture for our bulletin board and they will get to take a small prize home with their winning book.
All students are also exploring digital citizenship through K - 5 lessons on digital drama, digital friendships, digital advertising, passwords, cyberbullying and online safety.
The last week of the month, we will be focusing on Earth Day by exploring media center books on this topic as well as relevant websites and activities.
We hope everyone has a chance to read and/or share a book from our media center during the month of April!
MD Black Eyed Susan
The Black-Eyed Susan Book Award is a student choice award for the state of Maryland that has been awarded each year since 1992. The award seeks to promote literacy and lifelong reading habits by encouraging students to read quality, contemporary literature.
Each year students at Linton Springs Elementary participate in the Maryland Black Eyed Susan Program where students across the state read and vote on the same picture books, chapter books and graphic novels.
For more information and book titles, please go to the MASL website.
Read Across America
LSE Reads Program
LSE Reads 2025
This year’s book is Fenway and Hattie and we are very excited for our entire school to be reading together again. Below is your reading guide - a calendar showing which chapter to read on which evening. The full packet with family discussion questions, a list of vocabulary words your children will discover in the book and activities for each chapter will be sent home by email. Each Monday we will also resend the reading guide and the pages from the packet for that week by email.
Fenway and Hattie Reading Guide
After we finish the book, it is yours to keep. Your children may enjoy reading the book again and again. There are three sequels to this story that the CCPL and our school library own as well, Fenway and Hattie and the Evil Bunny Gang, Fenway and Hattie: Up To New Tricks and Fenway and Hattie: In The Wild. The CCPL – Eldersburg Branch will be having a culminating activity for all students on February 28th from 6 to 8 pm.
Reading Schedule for LSE Reads
Your family’s copy of Fenway and Hattie went home with your youngest family member at Linton Springs on Friday, January 31st.
Week One
Monday, February 3rd Chapters 1 & 2
Wednesday, February 5th Chapters 3 & 4
Friday, February 7th Chapters 5 & 6
Week Two
Monday, February 10th Chapters 7 & 8
Wednesday, February 12th Chapters 9 & 10
Friday, February 14th Chapters 11, 12, & 13
Week Three
Monday, February 17th Chapters 14 & 15
Wednesday, February 19th Chapters 16 & 17
Friday, February 21st Chapters 18, 19, & 20
Friday, February 28th Culminating Event
CCPL Summer Reading Program
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WLSE Announcements
WLSE Announcements
One way of disseminating information to the school community is through our daily media sponsored announcements that are viewed by the entire school. Parent involvement is encouraged, and parent helpers are always welcome.
(Due to space constraints, the student crew and announcements will be back next year.)
Volunteers
Volunteers are always welcome!
Please call or email the school if you would like to help us shelve some books or check-out in the mornings before our media clerk arrives.
Resources
SORA
SORA eBook Platform For All CCPS Students
Meet Sora – A New Reading App For All CCPS Students
Borrow eBooks and audiobooks from your school's library with Sora. Setup is simple - just find your school district and sign in.
CCPS students can access Sora through their Clever Portal using the Chrome browser or through this web address:
https://www.soraapp.com and then selecting Carroll County Public Schools.
Once logged in, students may connect to their public library by clicking on the menu icon in the upper right-hand corner.
Under Find My Library, type in Maryland’s Digital Library.
To switch between Carroll County Public Schools and Maryland’s Digital Library, click the drop-down at the top of the screen.
Happy Reading!
Websites
Ebooks
Destiny
Choose Linton Springs from the list of schools.
Our databases can be accessed from the home screen in Destiny. All students received a brochure of databases and resources available to LSE students and families when school started. This flyer contains the website, usernames and passwords to each of our databases. Please contact us with any questions.
Go to Destiny Discover to find, check-out and download our ebooks.
Homework Help From CCPL
