Spring Valley Public Library

The library will be closed Monday, January 20th in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. We will reopen on Tuesday at noon. Have a safe holiday.

Happiest of days to you in 2020! The library will be closed on December 31st and January 1st. We will reopen January 2nd. Make sure to stop in this week yet or Monday to grab your New Years books or DVD’s, books on CD or other materials.

We welcome you to come and spend some time at the library this season. We have plenty of new books, and of course, the old classics and most loved stories, too. There is a fireplace to warm up by and lots of seating choices. We have puzzles and games, we have computers for you to check your email or do your studies, we have a bountiful selection of Holiday movies and books if you are in the mood for those. You will find laughter and smiles here and we would love to see you!

Library Holiday Hours: Closed December 24 & 25 Closed December 31 & January 1

The Library will be closed Thursday, November 28th and Friday November 29th. We will reopen on Monday, December 2nd at 10:00 AM. We wish you all our BIGGEST Thanksgiving blessings and hope that you find time to be with those you care the most about. We are lucky to be able to call you our patrons and friends and we cherish the relationships we have with so many of you.

Jenny, Jeanette, Sarah, Klarissa, Chelsey

If you want to continue to provide level appropriate Action 100 books at your casual library visits in addition to the wide variety your child already brings home from school, we are able to show you how to do this! We cannot do a catalog search for IRLA Action 100 books, but we can do a search for Accelerated Reader levels, and we have a correlation chart that can transfer the Accelerated Reader level into a Action 100 level. It may sound confusing, but it is really quite simple! The catalog search page can be found under our library page at www.springvalley.lib.mn.us (right where you are now). On the right hand side under Library Resources click on “Online Catalog.” Once in the catalog you can see under the left column under Homeroom the words “Accelerated Reader.” Click there. Now using the chart below, you can select the range for your child’s Accelerated Reader level BASED on their corresponding IRLA Action 100 level in the same color. For example, if I wanted to find books in a level 2R, you would toggle the buttons to search 2.5 to 2.9. You can then select to search just our library (Spring Valley) or search all libraries in SELCO. The list will tell you if the book is available or not and what the call number is. If you click on the book title you can find out even more information about it. We are just looking to support our school in any way we can! We have paper copies of this at the library if you would like to have one in print.