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That's All Folks: WMS Library Times

This document is a newsletter from the WMS Library summarizing library activities from April 2012. It provides the top 10 books checked out, with Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins as the most popular. It also lists the top circulating class and discusses total library circulation compared to previous years. The librarian recommends two books they are currently reading and provides links to professional resources and new additions to the library.

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That's All Folks: WMS Library Times

This document is a newsletter from the WMS Library summarizing library activities from April 2012. It provides the top 10 books checked out, with Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins as the most popular. It also lists the top circulating class and discusses total library circulation compared to previous years. The librarian recommends two books they are currently reading and provides links to professional resources and new additions to the library.

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WMS LIBRARY

WMS Library Times


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TOP 10 BOOKS FOR STUDENTS IN APRIL

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Thats All Folks


Well, that about does it for this year. I think it has been a pretty successful year in the library. Now is the time when we look back on the year and wonder whether weve made any progress. This year in the library we had a total circulation of 7,795. Thats a bit short of what weve had the last couple of years. Im not sure if I have a satisfactory reason why this might be. The top book for the year was Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins. It was checked out 49 times this year. The Hunger Games and The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan were tied for second with 34 circulations. 8th grade in terms of circulation. 8th grade checked out just over 2000 times and the 7th grade more than doubled that with 4,444 circulations. Ill wait to reveal the top patrons when I give awards at the end of the year. Finally, thanks for all your help in the library and helping to improve literacy in the building. Lets do some more work next year. Dont forget to e-mail me to participate in the adult summer reading program. You can find old issues of the newsletter here. http:// westfieldmiddlepolicies.blogspot.com/

2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

3. Shark Life by Karen Wojtyla

4. 13 Little Blue Envelopes

5. The Blind Side by Michael Lewis

6. Delirium by Lauren Oliver 7. The Eleventh Plague by Jeff Hirsch

Mrs. Bouyett takes the top classroom honor for the year . Her third period class had an average circulation of 13.78 for the year and a total of 372 circulations. Great job. Her second period class came in second place for the year followed by Mr. Stemnocks 7th period class. The 7th grade demolished the

8. Heat by Mike Lupica 9. Style by Lauren Conrad 10. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

What Im Reading Now


The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone is a difficult one to recommend. I loved this book, but I know that many people would take one look at it and dismiss it out of hand. Yes, it is written as a comic book, but this is the best history of the impact of media that Ive read. Starting with press releases in Caesars Rome, Gladstone discusses our usually uneasy relationship with media and journalism. She follows this arc through history to where weve ended up today, and she even speculates about some potential future interactions that might come to pass in the next few decades. Absolutely fascinating and engaging. The other book that Im reading is The Tigers Wife by Tea Obreht. This is our book club book for May. It was a National Book Award Nominee last year. Its about a woman in a Balkan country who is trying to unravel interconnected stories about her beloved grandfather after his death.

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Professional Resources
New Additions This is not actually a new book, but I thought with ISTEP and NWEA it was a timely book to talk about. This series from ABDO Publishing Company is pretty good. They present arguments for and against an issue and give a good thumbnail history of the topic. This particular
edition gives a good overview of the history of standardized testing in schools. They have great additional resources in the back including web links and bulleted lists of major points. computers will reach intelligence that will match that of the human brain. His prediction is that this moment will be reached in 2045. His website is Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence. Its not just geeky robot stuff (although theres some great stuff like that). Theres a You Must lot of stuff about brain science Read This! and studies about teaching and Ive just relearning. Its definitely worth cently been introduced to Ray Kurzlooking at. weils idea of the singularity. This is a future time when the capacity of

Events-May
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already. George Orwell May events with book links.

National Bike Month -Early American Poetry: Beauty in Words -Modern American Poetry: Echoes and Shadows -World Poetry: Evidence of Life National Physical Fitness and Sports Month -Meetings With Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham - The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard - The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Memorial Day -101 Outer Space Projects for the Evil Genius -40 Nights to Knowing the Sky: A Night-by-Night Skywatching Primer -300 Astronomical Objects: A Visual Reference to the Universe

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Curriculum Connection
Here are some things coming soon or available now in the library that you may find useful for your class.

Social Studies Black & White: A look at the clash between white and black in Birmingham, Alabama through the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Bull Connor. Math The Book of Time. This is a very cool book that explores time from a scientific and historical perspective.

Related Arts Wideness & Wonder: This is a short biography of Georgia OKeefe with great illustrations that track her progress as an artist. Science Losing Our Cool: Asks questions about the sustainability of indoor climate control. Language Arts The News Never Stops: This is a very basic introduction to news media, how they operate, who they are,
and the tools they use. Although for my money, Id probably just use The Influencing Machine that I talked about on page 1 of this newsletter.

In the highest civilization, the book is

Technobrarian
Cleverbot Okay, this might make me officially beyond any redemption, but I love this. This site is essentially chatting with a robot. How cool is that! Cleverbot learns by having conversations with people. It started knowing nothing. Then someone said hello to it and it stored that in its vocabulary, so it had a vocabulary of one world. The more you talk to it the more it know and converses with you. Its now had millions of conversations and is more than happy to talk to you. Very entertaining. Not very useful but entertaining. Duck Duck Go

still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against

calamity. -Ralph Thanks to Joe Stemnock for this one. This is a search engine that Waldo Emerson doesnt allow your activity to be tracked. If youre not comfortable with all of the weird things that Google does with data, you may want to check this out.

New Books
If there are things that you would like to see us get in the library please feel free to drop me a line, and I will add it to my wishlists of things to be ordered. Ive also made these handy forms that you can put in my mailbox. Book Order Book Order Title ___________________ Title ___________________ Author__________________ Author__________________

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