Online magazine... by you for you.

Here is a lovely publication by teenage writers, for teenage audiences, specifically young women. It's called Alive. You can either view the features online or you can download the whole thing and read it on the computer like a magazine.

High Schoolers are cool!

According to researchers as reported in the USA Today, high school students in the United States often think of African Americans and women when they think: famous. That's pretty cool and as the article mentions, this indicates an important shift in how people in the United States think. Read all about it!

the HNHS library catalog.

Just a reminder to all of you, you can access our databases and library catalog from home!

• Instructions about how to use the catalog are on the Library FAQs web page here.
• Instructions for the databases and our all new exciting e-books are to follow.

Fiction of interest...

Hello my fair students and personnel. Here's an interesting article from the Guardian about a fabulous new Dominican writer, Junot Diaz. We have a copy of his work in the library as we speak. Come check it out.

And thus begins the Spring semester at HNHS...

Welcome back one and all. I hope you all had copious time to read many, wonderful books over the break. I certainly did. Here are the highlights:

• The Golden Compass (If you liked the movie, you'll love the book!)
• The Subtle Knife (The sequel!)
• The Amber Spyglass (The third and last book...)

• Reservation Blues (a book by Sherman Alexie... Native American story about a band...so fabulous!)
  
• The Green Glass Sea (a novel told from the perspective of a girl living in Los Alamos as the atomic bomb is being developed)

See you all on Tuesday, ready or not!

i love Maurice Sendak!!!

So, in library school, I read one of Maurice Sendak's books, In the Night Kitchen. I remember loving the slightly bizarre story and the amazing illustrations. There is an exhibit all about him and his works. Read about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Sendak-Exhibit.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Visit the museum here:
http://www.rosenbach.org/

Test your vocabulary and feed the world at the same time!!!

So, this website is totally rad.... If you are looking for a way to:
#1 entertain yourself
#2 make your English teacher happy by practicing really hard vocabulary words
#3 save the world!
then go to this site:
http://www.freerice.com/index.php and have at it. This website claims to donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations for each question you answer correctly. I am up to 150 grains of rice donated and I haven't missed a word yet. Beat that!

One week until Thanksgiving...

Hello again girls and guys(?)...
The librarian has uncovered some very valuable information. There are some really cool reading resources out there just for girls and also African American teenagers. Who knew? This is the article that talks about it:
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6500194.html?rssid=190
and here are the actual sites... look and see how fabulous they are!

Two things...

So, there are two things I want to mention today.

#1... It's Teen Read Week, this week, October 14-20th. Read all about it on their website... ha ha, get it..."read all about it"... Teen Read Week?

#2... Have you heard of the Gratitude Dance? Watch it here:

Attention all students!

Good news...! The Oakland Public library has lifted bans on all library cards. That means that if you owe fines or books or anything else to the library, you can still use your library card.

"The campaign will encourage patrons to return overdue materials or admit that they’re lost—with no penalty. Under library rules, anyone with more than $12.50 in late fines is automatically blocked from checking out materials." By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 10/4/2007

freaky, funky library!

Hey kids! Check out the design for this weird, crazy national library in Prague. It looks a little like something that would be on the Teletubbies. Basically, it looks like an alien space ship. Look at it here. Read about it here.
Thanks to Jessamyn West's awesome librarian blog for pointing it out to me.

coffee!

So, this posting is not strictly library related, but it is definitely school related and teenager related.
Coffee is delicious and maybe not SO nutritious, but did you know that there is a science associated with it? If you can't survive your day without coffee, you should check out this site.
http://www.cosic.org/

In addition, there is this really cool site like myspace, but for books. You can go on the site and make a list of all the books you have read and write reviews for them (or comments, really). As a librarian I fully endorse it. Add me!

Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back...!

Hello my lovely students! It is close to the end of the first week of school. I hope things are going well for the start of a new year. There are a couple of things for you to check out.

HNHS library has a myspace page. It's so hip and cool. Add me! www.myspace.com/holylibrary

There is an opportunity for students to submit writing to a student-run publication that we feature in the library (usually) called Teen Voices

AND here's another one called Teen Ink

Please come visit the library in your spare time and as soon as things are cataloged (in the next week or so) new books will be available including the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer.

Bring them back!

In case any of you missed the announcements, the library needs your books back. Please return all books before exams.

This just in...

New at the HNHS library. Come check it out... and then check out the author, Courtney Macavinta's website!
http://www.respectrx.com/

Guess who's back!?

After quite a long hiatus, the librarian's back. Please check back regularly for library news, interesting internet fodder and other library-related updates.


Today's cool website to view is:
http://www.6billionothers.org/index_en.php

the beginning...

Hey Monarchs...
Hi. This is your lovely librarian speaking. I am testing this format as a way of communicating with you. I know that you all are on the internet non-stop and there are things that I do throughout the day that you might find interesting. I mean, not really things that I do, but articles that I find, stuff that I am reading, books that I am reviewing. I want your input. If you have a second, reply to my posts. Tell me what you want to see @ your library.