What an Inspiration!

Have you met this Frisco kid? I think he is so inspiring.  I was first introduced to him at this year's convocation.
Stop by the library and tell me that you saw this post (or leave a comment below), and I'll be inspired to give you a treat!
 

Trailer Tuesday

Born To Rock
by Gordon Korman

Book Fair Commercial

Check out the Book Fair commercial made by two of our very own library aides (with the help of Mrs. Emmerson)!

Book Fair starts Monday!

The Book Fair is coming! The Book Fair is coming! I hope you will stop by the book fair next week and check out the goodies. We will even be open for the Fall Festival on Wednesday night, so you can bring the whole family!

E Book on Kindle!

Exciting news….

Within the week OverDrive will update our site to allow for transfer of ebooks  to Kindle devices! J

Here are some details you need to know:

• ·         The My Help wizard, help pages, and FAQs will be updated automatically when our conversion takes place.
• ·         Instead of the message that Kindle is “coming soon”, our site will say, “now available”.
• ·         All browsing, searching and checkout of ebook titles will remain the same. Patrons will check out the ebook on our site and choose, “Get for Kindle” at check out.
• ·         When a patron clicks, “Get for Kindle”, a link will open in a new tab at Amazon, prompting the user to login to their Amazon account. (no purchase or credit card necessary).
• ·         There are a few PDF titles that may not be Kindle ready for a while, but the EPUBs should all work (we don’t have many PDF titles anyway).
• ·         Patrons will then choose on which Kindle device (if they are linked to more than one) they would like to receive the ebook.
• ·         Kindle users enjoy the Whispersync technology that synchronizes notes, highlights, and last page read on the Kindle device and free Kindle apps on other devices (ipads, iphones, android…).
• ·         The ebook expires at the end of the lending period like on other device

Trailer Tuesday

Think you know everything about the American Revolution?  This book might make you think again! Watch today's trailer below.

This Week in the Library

This week, the library was busy, busy, busy!

The top seven happenings include
7. morning chess games
6. reading
5. researching on devices
4. exploring databases
3. checking out books
2. GT ILA Research

and the number one activity for the week is
Mr. Kindred and Mr. Morrow's U.S. History project!

What a great week we had!

I wanted to remind you that the Book Fair will be in the Library the week of Sept. 26-30
and Christopher Paolini will be at the Southlake Barnes and Noble on November 16.

Trailer Tuesday

A Great and Terrible Beauty
by Libba Bray

Football Display

Have you seen the new football display that the 3rd period student staff created? I think they did a great job! Stop by and let us know what you think!

Contests

Don't forget to take the "Gators Read Over Summer" survey.  You can access it at the bottom of the page.  Soon, I will close the survey, and we will open the contest.  Don't be left out!

Trailer Tuesday

All day, I have been thinking that it was Monday, and I should start thinking which trailer I would choose for tomorrow.  I realized, finally, that today was Tuesday.  Today's book choice was an easy one.  I really enjoyed this book, and I hope you do to.  It is Heist Society, by Ally Carter.

Jordan Sonnenblick is coming!

In the ILA orientation, all of the kids got to see this preview.  I am curious to hear students' reviews of the books since it flew off the shelves this week.  Add a comment here and let us know what you thought.
So, the great knews that bears repeating is that JORDAN SONNENBLICK is coming to Griffin on JANUARY 26! (UPDATE: NEW DATE is JANUARY 24!)  We are so excited that he will be visiting!  I hope you will read Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie, Zen and the Art of Faking It, Notes from a Midnight Driver, and After Ever After so that you are ready to ask him good questions when he comes!

Library Orientation for ILA classes

This week, all of the ILA classes visited the library.  It has been great getting to meet many of the kids for the first time.  I really enjoyed getting to talk to them about books and library things.  Some of the kids asked me to share some of the videos I used in my presentation.  I found these via librarian friends of mine on You Tube.  They are quite funny.