Sagamore Middle School
Library Resources
- Over 11,000 fiction and non-fiction books
- Reference Center includes dictionaries, thesauri, and encyclopedias
- 34 PC Computers with Internet access
- 30 laptops
- OPAC computer to look up books
- Board games and makerspace items
- Supplies to use in library
- MakerBot 3-D printer
- 3-D Doodle pens, Sphero bots, Makey - Makey kits
- Twelve dedicated iPads
- Cricut Machine
How to Find Your Book
- 000 – 099: Reference
- 100 – 199: Philosophy
- 200 – 299: Religion
- 300 – 399: Social Sciences
- 400 – 499: Languages
- 500 – 599: Natural Sciences
- 600 – 699: Technology
- 700 – 799: Art and Music
- 800 – 899: Poetry and Plays
- 900 – 999: Geography and History
- B: Biographies (arranged by famous person’s last name, example, Abraham Lincoln, would be B LIN)
- FIC: Fiction is arranged by the genre FIRST, then by the author's last name.
(This is a color coded label system - each genre is a different color. Some genre examples are: Adventure (green), Fantasy (yellow), Historical (brown), , and Sports (blue))
- P: Picture Books (arranged by author’s last name)
- SC: Short Stories - multiple stories in one book, often with a theme, such as horse stories, or scary stories. You may have one author who writes many short stories, or a collection where there are many authors writing one story each.
- PLA: Playaway audio books - listen to a book using earbuds. On display on top of bookcase.
- 741.5: A popular category in non-fiction, this is for Manga books (Japanese style) and for Graphic Novels. They have their own bookcase and genre stickers.
Virtual Reference Collection
- Click: CHROME – Sachem > Schools > Sagamore
- Click: Library
- Click: VRC (Found under Sagamore Online)
- Click: MIDDLE SCHOOL COLLECTION
- Click: Database of your choice
- Username: sagamore
- Password: Check with Mrs. Walker
- Click: Login