Thanksgiving

I am so thankful today as I reflect on how blessed I am to be the teacher librarian at CHS! Last week I had the privilege to speak to the two AVID classes. I had a lot of fun thinking back to my high school years as I prepared my PowerPoint presentation. I was very grateful I still had my old high school yearbooks and had fun looking at all the photos and comments. Here's a few slides from my talk:

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If you want to hear more of what I had to say, just ask me and don't forget to buy a yearbook. 

You never know how you'll use those old photos in the future.

World Wide Web - Do you know what it first looked like?

Do you know what the very first page posted to the Web from the CERN lab in Switzerland in 1991 looked like? Take a peek and click the link below, you'll be surprised that some of the links still work!

 http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

This is a a list of subjects one could find on the Web in its very early days:

 http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html

You can find information what the web looks like now in real time at:  http://www.internetlivestats.com/ 

We've come a long way, but I wonder what is next?

For more information on the history of the web: 

http://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989

What is your favorite scary book?

Recently I asked some students what their favorite scary book was and I displayed their answers on the library window. I'm not much of a scary book reader, but I like to have some ideas on hand. So, if you want to read some scary books, here are a few suggestions from CHS folks:  The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Emma Hall), The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe (Leslie Jurado), The Shining by Stephen King (Allie Mackey), How They Croaked by Georgia Bragg (Kim Holladay), Ten by Gretchen McNeil (Caroline Berglin),  Night of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine (Lucas Shrader), The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner (Skylar Sand), This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel (Jonathan Mangus), The Ashes Trilogy by Ilsa J. Bick (Sam Miller), The Lockdown - Escape from the Furnace Series by Alexander Gordon Smith (Nik Dolph), Coraline by Neil Gaiman (MC Castaneda), Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi (Seth Meros).   Most of these books can be found at the CHS library, so come and check them out!