Holiday Book Swap

The Student Advisory Board of the HRHS Library

is sponsoring a
Holiday Book Swap on Dec. 23, 2008.
Students, faculty and staff are welcome to participate.

Here’s how it works...drop off your “lightly used” books for the swap in the library anytime before Dec. 23. You will receive a voucher to select books from the swap.
The swap will take place before, during and after school that day, come early for the best selection.

Participants can swap for as many books as they bring in.

This is a great, no-cost way to treat yourself or someone else to a book!


Any books left over at the end of the day on December 23 will be donated to charity.

Teen Read Week

This week I was able to visit all the seventh grade Language Arts classes to promote Teen Read Week. Hopefully students will go online and vote for their favorite books at: www.ala.org/teentopten
You must vote by midnight, Saturday, October 18.

Everyone is looking forward to the release of the Coraline movie in February. Check out some of the movie trailers on Neil Gaiman's Web Site:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Video_Clips/Coraline

Stay tuned for some great programs the Library Student Advisory Board is planning this year.

History Day Research

I have added a new page to the HRHS Library Web Site so that it will be easier to link to resources for History Day research. Click on the title above to link to the page. Check it out!!

Welcome back!

We are looking forward to an exciting year in the library. We will be open to study hall students and other visits the week of September 8. Library hours will be 7:15 to 3 p.m. on most days. Please check with Mrs Belanger if you need to work in the library after school, sometimes there are meetings or other events scheduled in the space. We have a great selection of new books and, as always the daily papers and monthly magazines.

Library orientation will be held on Wednesday and Thursday (9/10 & 9/11) for seventh graders. They will come in with their Language Arts teachers on those days. If there are other new students in the building please see Ms. Rigollaud to arrange for a brief library orientation.

See you soon!

Check out the library web site

We have added some pages to the library web site for suggested reading and other information that may interest you. Check it out soon:

http://www.hrhs.net/content/library/library.php3

School Library Month and National Library Week

The HRHS Library is partnering with local C/W Mars Public Libraries to celebrate National Library Week by offering all students and staff the opportunity to sign up for public library cards at Hampshire. We have sign-up forms for Southampton, Westhampton and Williamsburg, the three towns that currently use the C/W Mars system. This system offers card holders the ability to check their public library record online and renew books. Card holders also have the ability to order books through interlibrary loan and gain access to several online reference sources. Stop by the HRHS Library and sign up for your card today!

New Books!

Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of Western Mass. we have added 37 new fiction books to the collection. Come in and browse our new titles.

Tech Week is almost here!

March 3-7 is Tech Week at the Hampshire Regional High School Library. We have daily contests planned, as well as the highlight of the week, the Guitar Hero Contest. As of today we have 25 students signed up. We expect to get several more signed up between now and the actual contest. It should be a great event and there will be prizes. The format of the contest will depend upon how many students actually sign up. Be sure to check out the listing of other events that will be happening during Tech Week.

Tech Week Events

Here's a list of the events we have planned for Tech Week:

• Daily contests using technology in the library
• Opportunity for students to record podcasts or create a blog entry about a favorite book, movie, game or web site
• Pose for a "Read" poster
• Listen to music from around the world
• Learn about Internet safety
• Database demonstrations
• Guitar Hero Contest

Come by the Library during the week of March 3-7 to see what's going on!

Student Advisory Board

We are currently looking for students in grades 7-12 to join our Library Student Advisory Board (SAB). The board will meet monthly in the library (with snacks!) and discuss a variety of things; from new books to planning major events or programs in the library. Participation will count towards community service hours for ninth graders and up. There is an information sheet in the library and you can talk to Mrs. Belanger or Mrs. Rigollaud about joining. This is a great way to get involved!

In the beginning...

there was an empty blog. Hopefully it won't be empty for long though. We've created this blog for the Hampshire school community and especially for use during our upcoming program, Teen Tech Week. The program will take place the week of March 3-7. Check back for more updates on the program.

We'll use this blog to post information for students and faculty about events happening in the library. Readers can also post comments to our entries. Please remember that this is a public space and anyone has access, so DO NOT post any personal/private information.