At Home Learning Resources                                       

 ACS and Buncombe Co. Public Library Partnership

All ACS students can access the public library with their PowerSchool number! Students can check out e-books and audiobooks through BCPL's digital collection.

Read Online For Free! (No Login Required) 

Asheville City Schools librarians read aloud picture books

Watch videos of celebrities reading their favorite books

See astronauts reading books from space

Panthers players and special guests read aloud Scholastic books in a "read along" style

The Spanish Experiment Listen, watch and read along to popular children's stories translated into Spanish and read by a native speaker

Read, Wonder, and Learn Authors and illustrators share read alouds and resources for learning anywhere

Virtual Field Trips

Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari 

Smithsonian Animal Cameras See lions, pandas, elephants, and naked mole-rats live on camera at the Smithsonian Zoo

Our Media Center

The Lucy S. Herring Media Center's mission is to support the school's curriculum and foster a love of reading. The library is both fixed and flexibly scheduled to best meet the needs of students. Kindergarten through second grade classes come to the Media Center once a week for book check out and lessons. Third through fifth grade classes are flexibly scheduled to come to the library. Our library provides access to print, digital, and makerspace resources that support the curriculum.

Media Center Staff

Kirsten LeClerc-Media Coordinator

Volunteers

We love having volunteers in our library! We can always use help shelving books or assisting during K-2 library time. We also welcome volunteers during our Scholastic book fairs.

Battle of the Books

4th and 5th grade students are invited each year to be a part of the Battle of the Books team. Students are required to read 8 of the 15 books on the NC list in order to participate. We read, discuss, and practice questions about the books from November through March. The district competition will take place in early April. During both the 2018 and 2019 competitions, the Vance team won the Sportsmanship trophy!

The ACS 2020 Elementary EBOB list is out! Please note: the ACS list has some different titles from the NC state list. We opted to make the list more diverse with more current titles.

Author Visits

We are so lucky to have two wonderful local bookstores in Asheville! Malaprop's and Spellbound have enabled us to have several wonderful author visits over the last few years. Our students have been able to meet Jan Brett, Ben Hatke, Alan Gratz, Grace Lin, Stacy McAnulty, and Barbara O'Connor. The experience of having authors speak to students about their writing has been priceless! We love our local bookstores!