Karen Nottingham
Cherokee Trail Elementary Library
Exemplary Level Collection Rating
2022, 2023, 2024
Interested in volunteering in our LMC?
Contact me at knottingham@dcsdk12.org
Welcome to Cherokee Trail's Library! I am beginning my 13th year as the Teacher Librarian at CTE. Our focus this year is on the Joy of Reading and creating life-long readers. Students will be welcomed back to a refreshed and updated space this fall. Our Soaring Stallions Early Reader books have been organized in clear bins, making it easier for our students to find the books in which they are interested. We have also updated and expanded this section to include more books for our K-2 students. Our Graphic Novel section continues to expand and we have added more browsing bins for those titles. Our Kindergarten students received new Library Book Bags thanks to a generous grant from our PSP.
Last year, 148 students earned free books from our Book Vending Machine! We checked out 23,321 books to students and staff and taught 745 classes. 4th Grade checked out the most books at 3,095. 3rd Grade checked out 2,478 books. We added 586 books to our library collection.
We are proud to share that our Library Collection is rated at the Exemplary Level. This means that our collection of books has an average age of 7 years or newer and 16 or more books per student. In the Spring of 2024, our CTE Library was the only school in the District to achieve this rating.
Our School Library Collection statistics:
11,148 Digital and Print copies
2018 Average Age of Collection (exceeds the goal of 2017)
47% of our Collection is Fiction titles (Literary texts)
53% of our Collection is Nonfiction (Informational texts)
49% of our Collection has a published date of 2019 and newer
3,430 titles support an environment that values and promotes equity and inclusion.
4,575 titles support the skills to be emotionally intelligent, establish relationships and make responsible decisions.
* based on TitleWave Analysis of 8.20.2024
Battle of the Books
Coaches and Teams for the 3rd/4th and 5th/6th have been formed and are gearing up to begin their Battles!
CTE LMC Hours
Monday - Friday, 8:30pm - 3:45pm
The Library Media Center (LMC) is open before and after school for book check out and clubs. Students are encouraged to come to the LMC at any time to check out books, research & read!
Class Times
9:00-9:40 4th grade
9:40-10:20 3rd grade
11:00-11:40 5th grade
12:00-12:40 2nd grade
12:40-1:20 1st grade
2:05-2:45 6th grade
2:45-3:25 Kindergarten
SPECIALS SCHEDULEReading every day is the most important activity you can do. Read with family members, read to siblings, read to your pets! Keep track of your reading with our Reading Log.