Summer Loans

If you’re in the middle of a great read when the end of the school year comes around, do not despair! The HHS Library is delighted to make summer loans. Just see Ms. Moore sometime after June 16th to make the arrangements.

End-of-the-Year Due Dates

It's almost June, so graduation and exams (and summer!) are almost upon us. With time so short, we have had to change our usual 3-week loan period. Unless you make special arrangements with us, all Library materials -- books, videos, cameras, the works -- are due as follows:

• Seniors: bring 'em back by Jume 4th
• 7th-11th graders: bring 'em back by June 10th
• Staff members: bring 'em back by June June 16th

Page Turners

The Page Turners book club will meet again on Tuesday, May 20th, during 1st & 2nd high school lunches, in the conference room by the Main Office.

Come and share your thoughts about one of this month's two short stories -- either The April Witch, by Ray Bradbury, or Girls at War, by Chinua Achebe. (If you're not in school, you'll need a copy of our password sheet to make those links work....)

Also cookies!

[Next meeting, June 11th.]

Flume Winner Announced

The 2008 winner of The Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award is New Moon, by Stephenie Meyer. And HHS was right on the money, since most of you voted for the winner!

Coming in second was Sarah Dessen's Just Listen, while John Grogan's Marley & Me took third.

The 2009 nomination list is already out, just in time for beach reading.

A Gift from The Currier Museum

Thanks to the thoughtfulness of Andrew Spahr, Jay's Dad and Curator at The Currier Museum of Art, we are unpacking a wonderful box of art books. Mr. Kociuba is delighted, and these extras from the Currier's Library collection will be on our shelves by early next week. The titles include:

• Weinberg, H. Barbara and Curry, David Park. American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915.
• Rubin, Stephen. American Watercolors from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Gerdts, William H. Art across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920.
• Landry, Linda. Classic New Hampshire: Preserving the Granite State in Changing Times.
• Wolf, Tom. Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists.
• Tarbell, Edmund Charles and Hirshler, Erica E. Impressionism Transformed: the paintings of Edmund C. Tarbell.
• Freilicher, Jane and Yau, John. Jane Freilicher: Paintings.
• Robertson, Bruce. Marsden Hartley.
• Jones, Caroline A. Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums.
• Hansen, T. Victoria and Schwartz, Lloyd. The Prints of Michael Mazur.

Thank you for thinking of us!

No More Extended Hours

Yup. It's true. The Library's extended Wednesday hours are over for the year. So it's back to normal hours, which will be 7:15AM until 3:45PM, school days, from May 1 until school's out for the summer.

Page Turners

The Page Turners book club will meet again on Wednesday, April 30th, during 1st & 2nd high school lunches, in the conference room by the Main Office.

Come and share your thoughts about our very first group read, Candy, by Kevin Brooks. And cookies!

[Next meeting, May 20th.]

Isinglass & Flume Award Voting

Mark your ballots! Isinglass Teen Read Award votes are due in to Ms. Moore by the end of this week, as are those for The Flume: NH Teen Reader's Choice Award.

LitFinder

We now subscribe to LitFinder, which offers quick and easy access to over 135,000 full-text poems, stories, plays, and speeches from all over the world. Try this one out -- it will be especially useful in your World Literature, Short Story, and Public Speaking classes. As always, we provide both in-school and at-home connections (remember to pick up the password sheet for the latter, though.)

Britannica Online

Check out the Britannica from HHS or home (be sure to pick up a new password sheet for home access!)

Four encyclopedias for all levels of reading:

• Encyclopædia Britannica
• Compton's by Britannica
• Britannica Elementary Encyclopædia
• Britannica Concise Encyclopædia

PLUS

• Integrated searching of 98,000 articles and multimedia.
• View over 27,000 graphics plus 3,300 animations, audio clips, and videos with new videos covering topics such as: Civil War, Dolphins, World War II, and more.
• Detailed maps of more than 200 countries, all U.S. states, and all Canadian provinces.
• Spotlight features with study guides on topics such as Black History, US Presidents, Women's History, Normandy, and Shakespeare.
• Internet Guide that offers teachers and students easy access to the best sites available on the Web. Created by Britannica editors, it includes sites chosen based on their educational value and includes an emphasis on curriculum-based content.
• Journals and Magazines that locate the up-to-date information about classroom concepts and current events topics