Spiderwick-esque library

Holly Black, one of the authors of the Spiderwick Chronicles, shares her library with us on the Steampunk Blog. Clicky here for some wonderful pictures of a hidden library!

Biblioburro

We have a great library here at SCCS, full of interesting and useful books, not to mention computers, wi-fi, magazines and movies. Some places aren't as lucky. Take a look at this article from the New York Times on a Biblioburro project in Colombia. The organizer, Luis Soriano takes books to people in rural Colombia with the help of his two mules. What a novel way to get your novels!

Book Fair in full swing!

The 2008 SCCS Book Fair started yesterday a bunch of people have already picked out their books and taken them home. Now that there's more room, a whole new batch of books have been put out. Don't forget to come by and take a look!

Today students are only allowed to take four books in order to give everyone a chance. Starting tomorrow anyone can take as many books as they want. The Book Fair will be open until Friday. Happy reading!

50 worst songs, ever?

Today a student requested that the library get a new magazine subscription to Blender. I'm not familiar with the magazine as a whole, but their list of the worst 50 songs ever is pretty funny.

There are some on the list that I actually like (48. Obladi-oblada, Beatles, 42. Sound of silence, Simon and Garfunkel, 41. We didn't start the fire, Billy Joel, 29. Breakfast at Tiffany's, Deep Blue Something, 16. What's up, Four Non Blonds, 14. From a distance, Bette Midler, 12. Kokomo, The Beach Boys, 6. Heart of Rock and Roll, Huey Lewis and the News, and, yes, I have a warm fuzzy place in my heart for #1), and a ton of guilty pleasures that I can't even admit to.

There's lots of funny stuff, too: "Pop albums can’t really have sequels" (Meatloaf's Bat out of Hell II) and It's Great-Uncle Disgusting -- from Canada! (Bryan Adams).

If you'd like to request magazine or book titles, just let us know, we'll try to get them in the next order!

Alan Gratz's twist on Hamlet

Alan Gatz's new book Something Rotten will be available free, online for the next month. It's an interesting cross of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet, and a modern detective story, written for young adults. Go take a look!

(I heard about this from the Bookshelves of Doom blog; it's a great place to keep up with all sorts of new young adult books!)

Check out this beautiful library!

Have you ever thought have having a library in your own home? Check out these beautiful shots of Jay Walker's library, from Wired. In addition to both rare and normal books, he has artifacts, like one of the Sputnik satellites, ruby-encrusted artwork and a chandelier from a James Bond movie!

Nobel Prize for Literature awarded

French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio was awarded this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee has posted his biobraphy and list of published works. Le Clézio has written a variety of fiction and non-fiction books for both adults and children. We do not have any of his books in the SCCS library, but will be purchasing some for next year. If you have a preference as to which books we select, please let us know!

Other Nobel Awards have been announced for Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine or Physiology. Check out the 2008 announcements for further updates on the Economics and Peace prizes.

Book Fair coming up!!!

The SCCS Book Fair is coming up, Octobre 21st-24th. Please come by the library to see what exciting and amazing books we have for you to buy!

Latino Heritage Month

September 15-October 15 is Latino Heritage Month. The library has a wide variety of books by Latino authors, with Latino characters or about Latino people, and pertaining to Latino culture.

Some of my favorite authors that work with Latino issues are Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Pat Mora and Francisco Jimenez. Come to the library to find out more about these authors, or to look at the huge variety of Latino-related books we have.