Libraries
The mission of both RPCS libraries is to encourage intellectual curiosity, creative learning, and a love of reading. This is accomplished by promoting access to all formats of media that meet the personal and academic information needs of the students, teachers, and school community. RPCS librarians collaborate with faculty to teach information literacy, support research, select course texts, and to incorporate independent reading throughout the grades. Through library classes, collaboration with faculty, special programming, and usage of library resources, RPCS students become efficient, effective, empathetic, and ethical readers and researchers. We strive to support a school culture that promotes lifelong reading and learning, with the goal of helping students become productive, informed citizens in today’s information rich society.
The Faissler Library &
Learning Center
The Faissler Library and Learning Center serves grades 5-12, with a collection of over 10,000 print titles. Students and faculty have easy access to our online library catalog, Follett Destiny, to search for relevant titles to meet their information and reading needs. In addition, RPCS has a robust collection of digital audiobooks and eBooks through Overdrive’s SORA platform. Our libraries offer access to forty-one subscription databases, in addition to other research tools such as NoodleTools and LibGuides. The Faissler Library and Learning Center seeks to engage our students in the lifelong love of reading through author visits, reading incentive programs and book clubs.
The Killebrew Library
Serving students from preschool through fourth grade, the Killebrew Library is the heart of the Lower School, a hub for intellectual curiosity and pursuit of passions through reading and research. Our collection of over 11,000 print titles is fresh, robust and features a diverse range of voices and authors. Just like their older counterparts, Lower School students have access to SORA, which offers them age-appropriate eBooks and audiobooks. Through library classes and collaboration with core teachers, students learn the necessary skills to become adept readers and researchers. Students begin to build self-awareness of their reading preferences by exploring various genres, authors and formats. The importance of reading for information and pleasure begins in the Lower School and is highlighted as part of our K-12 Reading Revolution initiative. The Killebrew Library provides a welcoming space for students to experience the joys and benefits of reading at a young age, giving them the foundation to become lifelong readers.
Killebrew Library Resources
