Library Media Center

About the Taylorville Primary Library

Our library has over 11,000 books for Pre-K – 2nd Grade. These books include: picture books, nonfiction books, biographies, and so much more!

Our library also has a book vending machine! Students can get a book from the book vending machine by earning “Book Bucks.” Students earn book bucks by showing our school values of respect, honesty, hardwork, kindness, and love. If you are interested in donating books for our book vending machine, please contact our librarian, Mrs. Presley.

View our online catalog here!

Mission

The mission of the Taylorville Primary School Library is to inspire a love of reading, foster curiosity, and empower students with the skills needed to explore, learn, and grow.

TCSS Libraries Mission Statement

The mission of the TCSS libraries as an agency of both instruction and service is to encourage reading for both pleasure and information, to support the curricular goals of our campuses, to teach appropriate research skills in an integrated context, and to aid each other.

It is the goal of all TCSS Library Media Centers to provide the best quality resources, instructional learning opportunities, collaboration and instructional support for our learning communities enabling and equipping all students as they learn, grow, and achieve.

All TCSS Library Media Centers support the Alabama State Course of Study, the basis of our school curriculum program and its publication "Alabama Library Media Handbook for the 21st Century Learner" as well as "Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs," published by the American Association of School Librarians and the American Library Association. In addition, the Library Media Center endorses the literacy principles of the AASL’s National School Library Standards.

TCSS Library Media Centers provide open access for all students. Our system’s Library Media
Centers use Destiny, a Follett software product as its automated management system.

Destiny provides TitlePeek®, which gives students a chance to preview books on-line; and One Search®, which lets students get information from the school library and the Internet as a whole with a single search, and WebPath Express®, which limits student, searches to approved, grade-appropriate web sites. Destiny access is available to teachers and students at school and at home via Internet access.

Library Links

• Clever: Access your child's Clever account, which has multiple resources shared by our school system and your child's teacher, such as iReady, Accelerated Reader, and more. Each student will need a QR code or their TCSS credentials to login.
• Typing Practice: Practice typing from home with these free lessons. This skill will help prepare students for standardized testing, school projects, and more.
• Search Our Library: You can search our library's catalog from home!
• Tuscaloosa Public Library: The Tuscaloosa Public Library is free to join and offers programs, books, movies, and other resources that are beneficial to children and adults of all ages!
• Alabama Virtual Library: The Alabama Virtual Library is a great online tool for all students. It offers databases to search for information that can help with homework, study help, and project information.