Celebrate the Freedom to Read with the ILC during Banned Books Week, September 25-October 1. According to ALA.org, Banned Book Week "highlights the value of free and open access to information ... [and] draws national attention to the harms of censorship." During Do Something Cool on Friday, September 30, Ms. Doyle and Mrs. Kent will lead students in an activity about the list of most frequently challenged books and discuss the important role of intellectual freedom in the United States.
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If you are a NoodleTools user, this post applies to you. Over the summer, we transitioned to NoodleTools’s new single sign-on (SSO) authentication. This means that students and teachers, alike, will be able to use their Google username and password to access the program, which is most commonly used for developing Works Cited and Reference List pages for research assignments (but it has many other functions, too).
Summer is one of Kellie and my favorite times of the year. Students and staff members ask us for reading recommendations for the upcoming break. Whether you’re looking for a reading contest or some recommended summer reads, we have ideas that can be used for a variety of readers and/or age groups.
Britannica School is more than an online encyclopedia. See for yourself during our free trial.4/5/2016 Barb and I have been in the market for a new encyclopedia database since, oh, last year. We like to make sure we’re getting you the best stuff. Keith West suggested Britannica School—a product of Encyclopedia Britannica—after he learned from a colleague in his grad school class that it offered diverse content at varied reading levels appropriate for his special education students. It offers that and much more.
The Illinois School Library Media Association (ISLMA) recently released the list of 20 books nominated for the 2017 Abraham Lincoln Award. The complete list, available on this LibGuide, includes titles and authors you might already know: I Am Malala byMalala Yousafzai, winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize; October Mourning by Leslea Newman, winner of the 2013 Stonewall Honor Book Award; Challenger Deep byNeal Shusterman, winner of the 2015 National Book Award. If these books are any indication, it’s going to be a great reading competition!
Congratulations to the eight students who read all 20 books from the Abraham Lincoln Award list for 2016 and became the first inductees into the Information and Learning Center’s Reader Hall of Fame: freshman Enrique Gomez, senior Karla Gomez, junior Katherine Lynch, junior Nirali Shah, freshman Stephanie Holton (pictured right), senior Hannah Savage-Cooper (pictured left), sophomore Mackay Scribner (pictured center), and freshman Kaylee Riffer. Their names will be engraved on a perpetual plaque exhibited next to the ILC’s Abraham Lincoln Award display. They also each earned a $10 Amazon gift card for completing the challenge. Gale recently made research easier for students. They partnered with Google! Now, users have the ability to send articles directly to Google Drive or to Google Classroom. This partnership is exciting because we subscribe to seven Gale databases.
We often warn our students about the ramifications of plagiarizing: a zero in the gradebook, expulsion from college, or legal action. By the time students get to high school, we assume they have received instruction about how to avoid plagiarism. However, in the face of such severe consequences, we cannot afford to assume.
I happened upon a neat tech tool at a recent librarian conference—one I think you’ll really like. It’s called Padlet.com, and the company’s tagline couldn’t be more accurate: “possibly the easiest way to create and collaborate in the world.” |
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