Located in the lower school school building, the library is open from Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 3:00 pm. The collection counts more than 13,000 books in French, English and Spanish, as well as a multimedia collection (DVD, audio books…), and French magazines. The library catalog is available online via the secure parents section of the website.
All students come to the library with their teachers on a regular basis to listen to stories, conduct research projects, or borrow books. The schedule and borrowing rules are explained by each teacher at the beginning of the school year. Parents are welcome to visit the library and check out items for their children; parent hour is determined by the librarian at the beginning of the school year. Through the library, parents can subscribe to magazines and buy books from the following publishers: l’école des loisirs, Milan, Bayard, and Scholastic. For details, consult the library page on the secure part of the website. Book donations are welcome, as long as they respect the following criteria: children’s books only, published after 2000, in excellent condition and preferably in French.
Anne Ricart, School Librarian
Mrs. Anne Ricart came to the United States for the first time as an exchange student when she was 18, lived with an American family for a year and graduated from the high school she attended. Back in France, she majored in English with a minor in French as a Second Language (Français Langue Etrangère) from the Université de Provence and spent another year in the States, this time as a French teaching assistant in a small college. She then obtained her Professional Secondary Teaching Credentials with an emphasis on Information Science. After 4 years as a school librarian in France, she was hired by the Lycée Français de New York where she worked for 5 years. She is now married to a Californian, and perfectly at home in San Diego where she joined the SDFAS team in 2006.
