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