- There are almost 11,000 books in our library.
- Almost all new books added to our library are “birthday books”. Students and faculty/staff choose a book from a selection of new books in the birthday book boxes in the library. A label with their name and the school year, is placed inside the book. They are the first to read the book, which is presented to them at assembly on or near their birthday or half-birthday. The book becomes a part of our permanent library collection.
- The design, shelving, and furniture of and in our library, are all gifts from the Zimmer Family Foundation.
- The library houses VHS and DVD copies of our school’s musical productions, anniversary celebrations, graduations, first communions, etc., that can be checked out. We have extra copies of most of the musicals for the purchase price of $10.00.
- The library houses copies of the school yearbooks… going back several years.
- The library houses copies of the “Stars of Pleiades Poetry Celebration, Poems by elementary, middle, and high school students” and “Ursa Major”, both local, yearly poetry publications in which St. Mary’s students are featured.
- The library houses books that have been produced by our classes on topics such as cooking, fairytales, poetry, holidays and wisdom.
- The library houses copies of the school’s “Dragonfly Journal”, an in-house literary production.
- The library houses reference materials including: German/English, French/English, and Spanish/English dictionaries; copies of Rhyming and Pronouncing dictionaries; Roget’s Thesaurus; copies of The United States and State of Idaho Constitutions; copies of The Idaho Blue Book; a copy of “The History of the Idaho Territory”; an Oxford World Atlas.
Mark Beale, the current owner of what most of us still call the convent, gifted Sister Margaret a “Biblia Sacra Latina: Facsimile of the Gutenberg Printing” bible. She then gifted the bible to our library. It is available for viewing however, gloves must be worn in order to protect the pages.
