I discovered another fun website today: www.canva.com

In just a few minutes I created a fun card for you. This Christmas why don't you have some fun and make something for yourself or send you grandma something. I guarantee she'll like hearing from you!

Have a very Merry Christmas CHS!  Mrs. H.

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!

Great new book: An Ember in the Ashes by SabaaTahir

I just finished the BEST book and I highly recommend it. I hope author Sabaa Tahir has the sequel started because I can't wait for the next installment of the story. We have one copy here, but I bet I'll be buying more. Come in and check it out!

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This is what YA author Marie Lu said about this book:

“I was so engrossed with this book that I missed a connecting flight. If that doesn't convince you to read An Ember in the Ashes, I don't know what will. An explosive, heartbreaking, epic debut that will keep you glued to the pages. I hope the world's ready for Sabaa Tahir.”- Marie Lu, New York Times bestselling author of Legend

Try a new search engine :infotrek!

I haven't tried a new search engine for a long time, but I recently learned about infotrek and seeing it makes me want to use it regularly. You might want to give it a try the next time you want to do some scholarly research. All the sources are vetted (looked at by a real person and recommended) and selected with high school students in mind. I don't think you'll get so many junk results when you search and your teachers will appreciate your reliable, quality resources!

       http://www.infotrek.info/testimonials.html

Welcome - it's a brand new school year!

Welcome back! I hope the 2015-2016 school year will be a great one. I was a little busy this summer moving books. Come in and see the changes!

I actually moved all the reference books and non-fiction books to a new section this summer. I hope you like the changes

The fiction books are now spread out where the non-fiction used to be.

The fiction section has lots of room and space for displays.