LibGuides: Gill St. Bernard's Middle School Library: Home

Dewey Decimal Stained Glass

000s General Knowledge

100s Philosophy & Psychology

200s Religion

300s Social Issues

400s Language

500s Sciences & Mathematics

600s Applied Technology

700s Arts & Recreation

800s Drama & Literature

900s Geography & History

Library Hours

We will be having daily open house hours. Drop in to ask about books or research. I'm happy to help! Click on the corresponding day/time below.

Need help?

Can't decide on a topic? Need sources for your research paper? Don't know when and how to cite material? The librarian is here to help.

Contact Mrs. Carruthers - lcarruthers@gsbschool.org

908-234-1611 x 430

Need Passwords?

Click here to access database passwords. To see the document, you must be logged into Office 365. To access the databases from home, use this spreadsheet for links to the databases, usernames and passwords. If you are having trouble accessing passwords, try the link to the PDF under Databases (below to the right).

For Teachers

Want to bring your class to the library?

Want a librarian to come to your class for database instruction?

Contact Lia Carruthers

lcarruthers@gsbschool.org

908-234-1611 x430

To contact Lia, copy and paste her email address into your email client.

Middle School Library Quick Links

Destiny Catalog
Find books, e-books, films, and other materials in the library collection.
NoodleTools

Reading from Home - you can do it!

SORA
SORA is our digital library and is free for all GSB students.

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1: Log into Office 365. This step sets you up for automatically logging into SORA.
2: Open a separate tab.
3: Go to our SORA collection in the separate tab - https://soraapp.com/library/nnjsnj
4: Find Gill St. Bernard’s on the drop-down menu.
• You can download SORA on your computer or phone or iPad – however you want to read. You can download it on more than one device if you’d like – let’s just begin with the device you’d like to use to read right now.
• Step 3 note – This is how you find our school with this link. If you download the app on your phone, you may search by school name (type in Gill) or zip code (07934). We are part of a group of libraries, so look hard on your screen to find our school.
5: You may now check out a book. Go to the Explore tab (binoculars) at the bottom of the app/screen to search by topic. At the top of the Explore page, there is a search box (click the magnifying glass if on the phone app) if you would like to look for a specific author or title or scroll down to see specific collections.
6: Email Mrs. Carruthers (lcarruthers@gsbschool.org) if you cannot find the book you’d like to read (we may be able to order it for you) or if you cannot get onto SORA with your Office 365 (after you’ve tried these instructions and the instructions below).

*Need help, try checking out these SORA instructions: https://help.soraapp.com/en-us/5033.htm
EPIC! Books
EPIC! Books is available to students at GSB for free during school hours. See below for info on how to log in. If you like EPIC!, I'll sign you up.

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Login with class code pbt1265
Choose Guest Student as your profile to search. If you'd like an account, email me and I'll set you up!!

If you'd like to access your account outside of school hours, I can hook you up with a free subscription. Just send me an email.
Destiny EBooks
1) In the Location box, it says “Any Location.” Do not change.
2) In the School box, enter
“Follett eLearning, McHenry, IL” and click Go!
3) To log in, click on the “Log In” button at the top right of the screen.
Username: guest

Password: follett
Tumblebooks or Teen Book Cloud from MAIN Library
This is a link to MAIN Libraries Digital Resources.

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Click on Tumblebooks or TeenBookCloud to search for online books to read or to hear.

Events - some GSB, some local, all fun...

2019 Media Awards

John Newbery Medal - Merci Suarez Changes Gears by Meg Media

Newbery Honor Books: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani and The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award: A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Clare Hartfield

Coretta Scott King Honor Books: Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome, The Parker Inheritance by Varian Johnson, and The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon

Michael L. Printz Award: The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Printz Honor Books: Damsel by Elana K. Arnold, A Heart in a Body in the World by Deb Caletti, and I, Claudia by Mary McCoy

Schneider Family Book Award: The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor

Schneider Honor Book: The Collectors by Jacqueline West

Merci Suárez Changes Gears by Meg Medina
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Citation Help

Purdue Online Writing Lab - MLA Style

MLA Style Guide
A brief guide for creating MLA style citations.

NoodleTools

Librarian

Lia Carruthers

Email Me

Contact:

908-234-1611 x 430

What is Mrs. Carruthers reading?

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende; Nick Caistor (Translator); Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)
Our Corner Store by Robert Heidbreder; Chelsea O'Byrne (Illustrator)