Our Best Online Resource - The Alabama Virtual Library

One of the best resources an Alabama student can access through a library or their own Internet at home is The Alabama Virtual Library. Have you seen the Encyclopedia's new E-Book Collection? Pictured below are just some of the E-Books available for middle schoolers. The best thing about them is that they are free! Just click them and read them online!

www.avl.lib.al.us - Brittanica Discover America

www.avl.lib.al.us - Illustrated Science Library

   www.avl.lib.al.us - New Views of the Solar System

www.avl.lib.al.us - Inside Sports

Be A Champion! Read!

I hope all students are participating in the Be A Champion and Read! Contest sponsored by AEA. The contest ends October 19th. Student winners receive a grand prize of tickets to the Iron Bowl along with two guests. They also get to visit the hospitality room and go on the field before the game!

Teachers can win $1,500 for their classroom and one library will win $5,000! The best decorated door wins $250 in cash. Let's get reading students! Just read six books by the deadline and YOU might be headed to a great football rivalry game!

Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai

October's Breakfast over Books features Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai. One Alabama connection to this book is that the author lived here for a while. She moved here from Vietnam. Now, come check one out!

This picture came from www.harpercollins.com

The book is written completely in verse!

Website Restrictions

Have there ever been some websites that you wanted to use, but could not because they were restricted? Which ones? Banned Websites Awareness Day's purpose is to bring the issue of website restrictions to light for the world of education.

Banned Websites Awareness Day

 This picture was copied from The American Association of School Librarians Webpage, a division of the American Library Association page on October 3, 2012.

 

A Year Down Yonder

One of my promises to myself this year is to read A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck. Librarians always have books on their bucket list that they have yet to read and this one is mine. What's on your bucket list?

Richard Peck has won many writing awards, so his books have to be good, right?

Before School Begins...

The IMS library is a busy place before the first bell even rings! Teachers dash in to get this and that - butcher paper, movies, books - and students come in to print, work on online assignments, book clubs and checking out books.

This is the end of one of our book talks.