The Extreme Read Challenge made the Long Beach Press Telegram’s ”Reader Page!” This article and picture was submitted by our PTA president, Jeri Lynn Cullison (who has also been a great supporter of this event for all three years). It reads: The Marshall Academy of Scholars Librarian, Ameelia Ghareeb is surrounded by participating students at the [...]
Today is the day! The Extreme Read Challenge is a fun, collaborative event that encourages nothing more that sitting ad reading. We have 50 students already signed up, plus guests, family members, and school staff. Over the course of 4 hours we will add all the minutes read by everyone to come up with our total; Last [...]
There were two interesting stories in today’s local papers about libraries. Enjoy! Check out some interesting resources at Santa Monica’s public library: people. Here’s information google can’t touch. Patrons can “check out” experts on health, civics, advocates and just plain neat folks for brief conversation opportunities. It’s their “Living Library Project,” and I’d hate to see [...]
We are now three days into my 6th Scholastic Book Fair, and this time around, I have to say I am not so impressed. While I have never really loved the Book Fair (it’s alot like having a party for a 6 year old: fun for the kids, but mostly just alot of work for [...]
What a wonderful event! Yesterday our middle school held its second annual Career Day, giving all 1100 stuents a remarkable learning opportunity. This year’s event was even a bigger sucess that last year! I must stop here and loudly thank my guest and airline pilot, Captain Eric Snyder, for attending. Not only did he [...]
Anyone else think it’s pretty cool when your profession gets a “shout-out” from CNN? Public libraries (and school libraries for that matter) find themselves in high demand when things go south in the economy. Here’s an article that looks at how this wonderful establishment is helping Americans get back on their feet. From Cnn.com: [...]
I did not believe it would ever happen. Our Book Truck Guy strolls in: “I’ve got some books for you.” Ms. G looks at his empty hands for a moment, puzzled. She’s thinking, “So. . .where are they? I don’t see any books? Why would you tell me you have books when you don’t have [...]
Roses are Red Violets are Blue We write ‘em and read ‘em Our new Poetry Crew! Over 50 students showed up for yesterday’s lunchtime Poetry Reading in the library; and not just a bunch of GATE kids, either. We had a group of 6th grade boys laugh at all the mentions of love, 8th grade [...]
Long Beach Unified has just published the results of a comprehensive budget survey, designed to help identify priority programs as huge budget cuts loom. There were almost 6200 responses and among the top results were elementary and middle school libraries. Here are the results broken down for middle school: This tells me a few things [...]
A few of the latest Libraries to have made headlines. Councilwoman Gerrie Shipske (District 5) wants special district assessment to fund Long Beach library system. She makes several good points about the benefits of public libraries, but I’m not sure how crazy I am about relying on specialty groups for funding. Sounds a little “iffy.” [...]
