During the school year, the library is open till 7pm, Monday through Thursday and till 3pm on Friday.


Library Calendar

The library is closed for the summer. Email is checked regularly.

Ms. Swedo has been appointed to a two-year term on the ALA National Committee Transitions to College under the Library & Instruction Roundtable. In this role, Ms. Swedo will help foster partnerships amongst various types of libraries, including JSerra’s, to support and encourage the information literacy skills of seniors when they leave high school and move onto the academic LC system.

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The mission of the JSerra Library Media Center ("LMC") is to create an environment in which students and faculty are empowered to be effective users of information and technology in a learning community, according to the standards and practices established by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and written up in a publication called Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. The goal of the LMC is to ensure that all JSerra students gain information literacy, which is central to becoming a lifelong learner. 

JSerra’s LMC provides access to information in both digital and print formats.  Three desktop computers with access to the Internet via the Student Network can be used for research and to access the JSerra library catalog. The digital collection includes multiple online research databases.  The print collection is dynamic and grows each year with its emphasis on free-reading fiction and curriculum-based fiction, non-fiction, and reference materials.

In support of the LMC’s mission to provide a proactive instructional partnership between the classroom and the media center, students receive library instruction throughout each term to teach them to develop information literacy and critical thinking skills, and train them to be effective researchers.  Library classes will include library orientation, use of the Dewey decimal system, online library catalogs (OPACs), leased research databases, Big 6 and I-search research work, skills to avoid plagiarism, Internet navigation, website evaluation, critical thinking, MLA 6th edition citation, and much more.

The librarian collaborates with faculty to develop online webquests, based on specific subject areas and tasks.  These webquests enable the students to use their laptops in the classroom.  They are also accessible through the Internet at home.  All webquests are on this library page under the right side-bar under the link called "Webquests".

The LMC is directed by Ms. Jeanne Swedo, who has been at JSerra since January 2004. Ms. Swedo has a Masters degree in Library & Information Science, specializing in school librarianship.

Library Hours:

Monday – Thursday: 7:45am to 7pm

Friday: 7:45am to 3pm

On Special Schedule days, the library will be open one hour after dismissal, unless there is a meeting.

Lost textbooks that are found on campus are sent to the library, where Ms. Swedo keeps them locked up. If the student’s name is in the book, an email is sent to the teacher of that subject for the student to come and retrieve his or her textbook. Please be sure to write the student name in each textbook!