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Welcome to the Milton Frye Library
of the Marion Cross School
Susan Voake, Librarian
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Our library is named to honor Milton Frye, our school principal from 1973 to 1996, whose foresight and support enabled the library to evolve into a superb elementary school resource center for the 21st century. The collection numbers about 20,000 volumes including picture books, fiction, folklore, mythology, poetry, biography, informational books, and student, teacher and parent reference materials. It was developed to promote our library goals which are to foster a love for reading and to teach the use of information tools and resources.
The library is staffed by a professional librarian with the help of sixteen parent and community volunteers. Susan Voake is our librarian. Mrs. Voake taught fourth grade at MCS for fifteen years before becoming the full time librarian in 1988. She loves children’s literature. In addition to teaching and advising our students about literature at MCS, she has taught children’s literature courses to parents and teachers at area colleges and universities. When she isn’t reading, Mrs. Voake collects antique valentines and other Victoriana, works on a dollhouse she has been building for twenty four years, gardens and bakes cookies. She is married to a toymaker and has three college age daughters who attended the Marion Cross School from kindergarten through the sixth grade.
This year’s volunteers include Fran Nye, Clare Forseth, Janet Smith, Kathy Snyder, Karen Kniffin, Ann Waterfall, Beth Phillips-Whitehair, Terri Wallis, Anne Alford, Bev Gorham, Kim Holzberger, Barb Kline-Schoder, Onita Connington, Sarah Robson, Betsy Maislin, and Jill Butler. They work at the library from one to four hours each week.
Borrowing Books
Kindergarten and first grade classes visit the library once each week. Second through sixth grade classes visit the library once or twice every week. Students may also come individually with teacher permission.
Our library is automated so each borrower has a barcode number. Parents as well as students, teachers, and staff may have a barcode to check out books. We do not charge overdue fines, however if a book is lost, the borrower must pay to replace it.
Hours
The library is open at 8:00 a.m. before the school day begins. Students, parents and their pre-school children are welcome to come to the library and read with or to their children then. The library is open after school until 3:15.
Library Exhibit of the Month
Links
Norwich Public Library
Through the Norwich Public Library webpage, families can access the library’s online catalog as well as the state of Vermont’s online catalog (VALS). In addition, reference resources such as The World Book online, Horn Book online (a children’s literature review) and Infotrack (a periodical search resource with both partial and full text articles) are available to use.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
Vermont Center for the Book
News
2004 Book Sale
The Marion Cross School Biennial Book Sale to benefit the school library was held June 4-5 in Tracy Hall. A much anticipated event by children and adults alike, the sale this year was a CHILDREN’S BOOKS only event. All types of children’s and young adult books were donated.
The photo shows students checking the book donation graph to see how their class is doing to reach the goal.
Volunteers
Dr. Fran Nye works at the library check-out desk on Monday and Friday mornings and takes home all of our damaged books to repair. She has lived across the street from the Marion Cross School for forty-seven years. Her barn is that wonderful storage facility for community projects from the Christmas Revels to the MCS Book Sale. All three of her children attended MCS from first through sixth grade (there was no kindergarten at the time) when its principal was Marion Cross and the school was known as the Norwich Village School.
Dr. Nye is one of the library’s original “founding mothers”. In 1960 there was no school library. As part of the Norwich Women’s Club, Dr. Nye and several other mothers set up a cart in the principal’s office to be the first library. The Women’s Club organized the first book sale to raise money to buy books to expand the library. (For many years, the book sales were the only source of funds for purchasing library books.) As the number of books outgrew their space and the Dresden Compact was established so that the Norwich seventh and eighth graders went to school in Hanover, the upstairs of the 1898 building was available for a library space. Dr. Nye’s husband, Bob, built the shelves for the library
--the same shelves that house our non-fiction collection today-- and Dr. Nye was one of the mothers who operated the library on weekday afternoons.
Dr. Nye’s favorite children’s book is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. She reads it every spring. Perhaps because of her work as a psychiatrist, Dr. Nye is repeatedly touched by the little girl who makes people well through the power of nature. Freckles by Gene Stratton Porter and The Enormous Egg by Oliver Butterworth are two other books the Dr. Nye loves and recommends.