March is Women in History month. If you're interested in a female perspective, or women actors in global history, please come to the library to take a look at our display. We have a variety of non-fiction and fiction books on the subject.
If you'd like to do some deeper research on women in American History, check out this link to Discovering American Women's History Online. It's a great resource to search the web!
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Friday, March 13, 2009
Friday, August 1, 2008
Games! Games! Games!
The Smithsonian (a museum group in the US) has gathered online games from a variety of websites and put them together in one place! If you're interested in polar animals (penguins!), vikings, dinosaurs, or many other fascinating topics, check it out!
Friday, February 29, 2008
Santa Cruz History
Ms. Zapata, the elementary principal, just let me know about a great web site on Santa Cruz history. It's in Spanish, but should be fairly easy to read for all our students.
Thanks Ms. Zapata!
Thanks Ms. Zapata!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Veterans Day
Yesterday was Veterans Day in the United States. This holiday is a time for us to "honor all who served" in the military. War has a large presence in the literary world, many classic books have been written about both the glory and the horror of battle. The library has quite of few of these titles, and here are some general recommendations:
For younger readers a picture book called The Blue and the Gray, by Eve Bunting, has two young friends remembering the American Civil War. Good fiction books for adults on the Civil War include Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier and The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara.
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes is a Newbery-award winning book for middle readers based during the American Revolutionary War. Sarah Bishop, by Scott O'Dell and The Pox Party, by MT Anderson are two other books written about that era.
If you prefer non-fiction works, They Marched into Sunlight, by David Maraniss, is a great read about different fronts in the Vietnam War. This work is recommended for older readers. For middle readers, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, is a fiction book about one young man's experience in the same war.
Please come to the library to find other books about war and veterans.
For younger readers a picture book called The Blue and the Gray, by Eve Bunting, has two young friends remembering the American Civil War. Good fiction books for adults on the Civil War include Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier and The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara.
Johnny Tremain, by Esther Forbes is a Newbery-award winning book for middle readers based during the American Revolutionary War. Sarah Bishop, by Scott O'Dell and The Pox Party, by MT Anderson are two other books written about that era.
If you prefer non-fiction works, They Marched into Sunlight, by David Maraniss, is a great read about different fronts in the Vietnam War. This work is recommended for older readers. For middle readers, Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, is a fiction book about one young man's experience in the same war.
Please come to the library to find other books about war and veterans.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Free demo from ABC-CLIO online reference
SCCS has a free demo from ABC-CLIO online reference. The demo is of a variety of ebooks at middle and high school reading level. They cover a broad range of topics, including US and world history, religion, geography, technology, pop culture, folklore and government. Please come to the library for a password and login to explore the resource. The link will expire on December 15th, 2007.
This could be an incredible useful resource during the uncertain next few weeks when we may have possible school closings.
If you like the online ebook format, or find it useful, please comment either through the blog, or directly to Ms. Hanneman in the library.
This could be an incredible useful resource during the uncertain next few weeks when we may have possible school closings.
If you like the online ebook format, or find it useful, please comment either through the blog, or directly to Ms. Hanneman in the library.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Interlibrary Loan
Have you ever heard of Interlibrary Loan? It's when two or more libraries have an agreement to share their stuff with each other. It can be between school and university libraries, public libraries or special libraries. In Santa Cruz we do not have an interlibrary loan (ILL) agreement, but we can now "borrow" things from the Library of Congress in the US! The Library of Congress has put digital resources on their website for anyone to use. The resources are PDF versions of the original documents. All of the documents are in the public domain which means that they are free for anyone to use, and mostly older resources.
If you are interested in this resource, check out the Library of Congress's Digital Interlibrary Loan. This resource will be especially useful for people interested in history.
Interlibrary loan is an incredibly useful tool for university students. If your library doesn't have the resources you need, you can borrow books from almost anywhere in the United States, and even some international libraries. Also, it's a good way to save money on text books...instead of buying 15 books for a class, you can borrow them from another library and read what you need before returning them!
If you are interested in this resource, check out the Library of Congress's Digital Interlibrary Loan. This resource will be especially useful for people interested in history.
Interlibrary loan is an incredibly useful tool for university students. If your library doesn't have the resources you need, you can borrow books from almost anywhere in the United States, and even some international libraries. Also, it's a good way to save money on text books...instead of buying 15 books for a class, you can borrow them from another library and read what you need before returning them!
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