"Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was solely related to how many librarians it contained. Possibly a slight overstatement. But a culture that doesn't value its librarians doesn't value ideas and without ideas, well, where are we?" ~Neil Gaiman (via thoughtsdetained)

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NHS Book Club

For our Book Clubbers-  We have created the following blog to post our meeting dates, readings and related questions.  Just click on the link below:

NHS Book Club Blog

Mrs. Blaskiewicz's Environmental Science Research Project

How large of a footprint do you leave on Earth's resources? 

Analyzing Ecological Footprints Project:  Your individual ecological footprint is an estimate of the total land or sea required to produce food, materials, and energy necessary to maintain your level of resource consumption. 

Using the SCSD Culture Grams Database, research information on the two countries you have chosen. You will compare the ecological footprints of people living in other countries and research the differences in lifestyle of two countries to discover the important factors in calculating an ecological footprint.   Once recorded, you will use the data to compare the ecological footprints of two countries.

Next, you will consider what you might do to reduce the size of your ecological footprint.

Open House October 6th

We were happy to greet so many parents and students at the Open House on Thursday, October 6th.  I was glad to see the interest in the Library Links and District Databases!  Congratulations to the family that won the donated copy of the novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett!

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Book Club

This Friday, October 14th, we will be hosting our first Book Club session in the Library Media Center at 2:05. We will be reading and sharing on The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

Here is a link to the author's website: http://kathrynstockett.com/

If you are interested in joining the Book Club, please come to the Library on Friday at 2:05. We hope to see you!