Media Center

The vision of Tate Elementary School Library is to foster the love of reading for pleasure and information by connecting our students, faculty, and administration with the resources, technology, and critical thinking skills needed to inspire learning.  By maintaining a nurturing environment, all patrons will excel in our global community.  

Mission Statement: Our mission is to empower students, faculty, and administration to become enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, ethical users, and critical thinkers. 

Ask the Librarian: Email Krista Newton at  kristanewton@pickenscountyschools.org.

Online Media Resources

Destiny Discover Logo

Destiny Discover is our library catalog. Use it to find books(both print and eBooks), and digital audio books that can be downloaded for your listening pleasure. Log in to Destiny to check your library account, make “favorites” lists and access eBooks/audiobooks.

Britannica School Logo

Britannica School offers a world atlas, research tips, articles, photos and videos on a wide range of topics.

GALILEO Logo

GALILEO, Georgia’s virtual library, is an online library portal to authoritative, trustworthy information that isn’t available through free search engines or internet directories.

You don’t need a password to access GALILEO when you’re at school or if you get there through Clever when you’re off-campus.

Lexile Logo

Using Lexile® Find a Book, you can easily find books that match your child’s Lexile measure, grade level or interests among the hundreds of thousands of books in this browser tool. Search filters include dozens of interest categories, books in a series and award-winning books.

Pickens County Library Logo

Pickens County Library System (Sequoyah Regional Library System) has a large variety of books available for checkout.

Sora Logo

Sora is a reading app that allows access to hundreds of eBooks and digital audiobooks. The PJHS Sora collection is primarily for pleasure reading. You can browse it directly or find titles in your Destiny Discover searches.

User ID + Password = same as your school Google account