What speed do you read?
Compare your reading speed to the national average.
Source: Staples eReader Department
Remember:
Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Willam Faulkner
Source: http://quotations.about.com/cs/inspirationquotes/a/GettingBette1.htm
The Start Spot Network
This website is so good that it now calls itself the Start Spot network. It all started with libraryspot.com. Libraryspot.com has links to libraries, reference books, and must see websites. Bookspot.com links to categories such as “What to Read,” Genre Corner, Where to Buy, Behind the Books, and much more. Want to know the “Top 150 Bestsellers of the Week, or the Best Outdoor Literature? The Startspot Network more than 100 awards and honors.
Links:
About the Start Spot Network
http://www.startspot.com/corporate/about.htm
Library Spot website
Book Spot website
Do a Google search
Type in SOPA
Look for the Thomas.loc.gov link
http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php
Bill Summary and Status 112th Congress (2011-2012) H.R. 3261
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3261:
Recommended by: Sue Harmon
https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction
I wanted to share a brief article that discusses how the proposed SOPA and PIPA bills could affect libraries if passed.
I’m sure most of you are already pretty in the know on how damaging either of these bills would be, but this just further supports those concerns…
http://news.blogs.lib.lsu.edu/2012/01/18/sopa-pipa-and-libraries/
Also for those of you who haven’t seen it, this video does a great job explaining why these bills are so damaging…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHj2djD1130&hd=1
Recommended by: Dominic Slauson
Westminster High School now has an iPhone app created by Brandon Talmood.
The app has six buttons:
The library button links to Destiny our library book catalog’s front page that is complete with many links to the WHS Library’s Blog, WHS Library’s Website, and many others. Create your Destiny Account today so you will have the library at your finger tips.
Destiny Quest Resource ListsWelcome back everyone. 2012 already – WOW. The WHS Library has been busy processing new books for you. Don’t forget to take full advantage of your Library book catalog Destiny.
Log in or Create an Account. Select Westminster High School
Westminster High School Library Book Catalog
In your library book catalog click on Destiny Quest (it is located right under Library Search)
Click on “Quest Home” and look for Resources Lists.
A new Resource List has just been created called “New Books Spring 2012.” These books are the newest of the new.
The “New Books Fall 2011″ are still a great resource for our new books.
Source: Google images
books due in January?
The WHS Library is now checking books out for three weeks or 15 school days instead of two weeks or 10 school days. At the library we count only school days when calculating the due date so that means weekends and holidays do not count.
Why? Our new online book catalog called “Destiny” www.whslions.net/library has a wonderful feature called Interlibrary Loans or (ILL). Any student or staff member that has created an account in Destiny can borrow books from one of the other schools in the Huntington Beach Union High School District. We changed our check out time to three weeks to make it easier for students and staff to borrow books from the other schools.
Stock up today for your winter break reading.
Links: Westminster High School Library’s website
Westminster High School Library’s Blog
Do you want to learn more about the CAHSEE?
Visit the California Department of Education website:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/index.asp
For those who would like to provide their student with a little extra opportunity to pass, you will find Released Test Questions (RTQ)—items that have been used on past CAHSEE tests—at the following websites:
For Math Released Test Questions, go to:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/ math08rtq.pdf
For English Released Test Questions, go to:
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/hs/documents/ela08rtq.pdf
Sources: Westminster High School Principal’s Newsletter Winter 2010
and Stephanie Taylor Librarian
What is a Book Blog? A blog is a sort of online diary. In this case it’s a book blog. The author or authors of the blog talk about nothing but what books they have read. Book blogs feature new books, book reviews, and even book trailers. Within our school district one great blog is FVHS’S Baron book blog. The new Blogspot format features a flipcard view that is really fun to look at and click on. And the best part is you can put these books on hold.
Check it out at:
http://baronbooks.blogspot.com
Another great list of young adult book blogs is the Young Adult Book Blog Directory.
Click on the YA Book Blog Directory illustration.
There are many ways that you can advocate for your school: become a member of the Site Council; join the PTA or other parent group; gather parents together to attend school board meetings;learn more about school libraries and how three moms in Washington State changed the legislative landscape for school libraries in that state; form a task force to advocate for school libraries in your town.
from: http://librarycampaign.csla.net/2010/11/what-is-strong-school-library.html
The library missions and users are very different, but complementary.
