About the Library

The Arbor School Library offers: 

  • Community access throughout the school day, from 8am—3pm

  • Plenty of comfortable seating for reading and study

  • More than 17,000 books in the K-8 Library

  • Over 4,000 titles in the Arbor Center for Teaching (ACT) Library— which contains books for educators and parents on a wide variety of topics (e.g. mathematics; reading; digital technology; diversity, equity & inclusion; family life; dealing with trauma; and more)

  • Easy access to the Oregon School Library Information Services (OSLIS) information databases and resources for elementary and middle school student research

  • Reading recommendations and print & digital research support

Contact our Librarians

K-3 Librarian

Felicity Nunley

Email Felicity

4-8th Librarian

Britta Daubersmith

Email Britta

Librarian Assistant

Karli Merkens

Email Karli
 

Donate a book to the Arbor Library!

If you wish, you can support our library with the gift of a book to the library in honor of your child’s birthday, or in honor of the season, or another special person, or just because! If you are looking for ideas, we have an Arbor Library wishlist of books (coming soon). Want to check if Arbor already has a copy of a specific book? Search the online catalog.

A belated thank you from @arborschool children and teachers to @deborah_hopkinson for spending a virtual day with us this spring! It was an exceptionally memorable experience of important shared stories, a tour of her work space complete with loyal p
Not long after covid lockdown hit & remote school started, the hairball of designing some semblance of a school library experience for all @arborschool kids emerged as a true problem. One of the sweetest activities we found for our 4s and 5a was
Thank you @reneewatsonauthor for writing this book layered with ideas to turn over and over again, as we have done at Arbor with our senior students (grades 6, 7 & 8) who led the discussions by wonder and worry and where-do-I-fit-into-this-comple
Can’t wait to hear what our 2nd & 3rd graders think of this astounding true story of a young French woman who left Paris with her motorcycle to travel the world solo and learned through that journey that “The world is beautiful. The w
Hoping our youngest readers will be inspired by the epic efforts of some animal lovers and engineers who conspired to help animals survive intrusive human constructions @arborschool #picturebooksofinstagram #readalouds #schoollibrarians #nonfictionpi
Pulled out an oldy & a goody for my @arborschool kiddos. I’m thinking this may be my readers’ first meeting with the doll-eating aminal, yes most assuredly aminal (dear autocorrect), as clearly defended by the hungry blue-spiked passe
Wishing all kiddos a good dose of forest bathing this summer. Gracias a @nivolauyaillustration & @marcayats ! #readaloud #reading #readalouds #childrensbooks #childrensbookillustration #naturelovers #naturehealing #forestbathing #forests #outdoo
Lost crown? Ancient mountain village? Other thoughts @arborschool kiddos? #nature #naturestudy #storytelling #schoollibraries #outdoored #forest #natureart #naturestories #childrensstories #tellingstories #curiosity #schoollibrarians #childrenslib