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  Friday, May 2, 2003'Haveli' by Suzanne Fisher Staples
 It was a wonderful book! LOVED IT!! It was so much better than the first book, Shabanu. She married an old man in the first book. Find out about her life married to an old geezer. Even though he is nice, he's old...so yeah. It is very, very good at the end. SO FINISH IT!! review by: Helen L. HR 204/8 Genre: Historical Fiction. Available from: Ms. Turnbull's Classroom Library
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003Angus,Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
 Hey wassup, just strollin along and leaving some of my favorite books I guess. Err k - enjoy. :][: Well, my friend Brian got me into this book so I just tried it. So like, oh mah gosh! This book is totally awesome. It's about this like one girl named Georgia and she goes through things 14-year-old girls go through. reviewer: MoNkEYs_RUle.-
Friday, April 25, 2003Picture the Girl , by Audrey Shehyn
 This book goes to all the girls out there.When you start this book you won't want to put it down. It's about a bunch of girls trying to live life and how complicated stuff happened during their teen life. Some stuff you can connect with them. You feel like they are a part of you if you are one of the people that say, "this never happens to no one but me." You should read the book and share the same stuff or feelings. review by: Shorty -
 Extremely funny. The main character whose first name is Wallace, and his last name is Wallace. (Wallace Wallace) He is very witty and humorous. Some things in the book include: Letters to Julia Roberts and mysterious acts of vandalism on the school play, "Old Shep, My Pal." Will Shep live to see another day? - reviewer: Helen L.-
Welcome to MLK's Digital Library Agenda blog. Check back regularly to find out what's going on in the library! Friday, February 9, 2007
For those of you waiting impatiently for the new Harry Potter, it has been announced that it will be released on July 21, 2007 and will be called "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows". [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Monday, January 22, 2007
"Should the nurturing cocoon of elementary school be extended for another three years, shielding 11-year-olds from the abrupt transition to a new school, with new students and teachers, at one of the most volatile times in their lives?" The second article in a New York Times series on the future of middle schools asks this questions. [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Mr. Tai's 7th Period class is in the computer lab this week with me, learning how to evaluate Web sites, cite sources, search databases, and find books in the library's online catalog. Teachers, please talk to me about signing up your classes for similar lessons -- or, better yet, we can collaborate on helping students do a particular research project! [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Here's an interesting article in the New York Times, "Trying to Find Solutions in Chaotic Middle Schools" --the first in a series called "The Critical Years" that looks at changing theories of how middle school should be taught. [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Tuesday, January 2, 2007
You may notice that the library is getting a new look! I spent some time over the break changing things around and putting some of the newest, most interesting books up front. I also created a reading area with a couch . We should be receiving brand-new furniture, computers, and books in the near future. Hopefully, the changes will encourage students and staff to visit the library. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, or questions about where to find books. [ # Posted to Library Media Center.]
The library will be open at lunch starting Jan. 2 -- except for Mondays (or Tuesdays after Monday holidays), when the UBC meeting takes place in the library -- so that students can check out books and do research. I will meet students who have passes at the front door at 12:30. Teachers, please send students to the library to get passes, or get passes from me to hand out to your students, and encourage them to come in to read/check out books during lunch. Thanks! [ # Posted to Library Media Center.]With the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday coming up, I have placed biographies and other related titles on display around the library. There are also videotapes on display next to the TV/VCR sign-up book for teachers to check out. Please feel free to check out the books on display, and ask if you need other materials! [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Thursday, December 21, 2006Staff members had so many good comments and suggestions on their survey forms that I wanted to respond to some of them individually. So here goes:
Any chance kids could come use the library at lunch?
Absolutely! Starting Jan. 2, the library will be open at lunch on most days. I will have passes for 15 students, and will meet them downstairs at 12:30. Please get passes from me in the morning if you would like to hand some out, or send students to the library to get a pass before lunch.
Could you bring a rolling cart into my room that has new fiction and kids could check them out after booktalks?
Yes, yes, yes! I would love to do that. Just drop me a note or stop by the library to let me know when you would like me to visit your classroom. I will also be handing out forms you can fill out and put in my box.
I would like to have the children fully use the library -- for books, reading to them and to use both computers and written references for general knowledge acquisition.
Me, too. Please let me know what types of assignments and projects your students are working on, and we will plan for them to visit the library or computer lab for short research skills lessons followed by time for library research. I would especially like to teach students to use the databases available free from the public library.
I might come in if I had a chalk/white board to use.
Would a permanently set up screen and DVD player or multimedia projector be feasible?
Both great ideas. Let's talk more about these! The results of our student and staff surveys are in, and the results will be very helpful to me as I order new books and make changes to the library. Thank you so much to everyone who filled out a survey. Three staff members even filled it out online! Below are the survey results for staff and students. Interestingly, both staff and students ranked "More books to read for fun or pleasure" as their very top choice. Teachers also wanted new DVDs and CDS and new books to support the curriculum. After "books to read for fun", students chose new computers and then a nicer looking library/comfy chairs as their next priority.
Staff also emphasized encouraging pleasure reading as the librarian's main role, asking for booktalks and visits to the library to check out books as the primary library services they plan to use. Staff Responses
1. What would you most like to see in the school library? (I tallied each person's top 3 choices)
-- Six mentions (top choice):
New high-interest fiction and nonfiction
-- Five mentions:
New media/DVDs/CDs New books and reference materials to support curriculum -- Four mentions:
New computers --Three mentions:
None --Two mentions:
Better staff resource room More newspapers and magazines --One mention:
New furniture Improved library web site 2. How often do you use the library?
Often -- 4
Sometimes -- 4 Infrequently -- 1 Never -- 1 5. What services would you be likely to use? (tallied choices for top 3)
Booktalks -- 6
Visits to the library to check out books -- 4 Collaborative projects -- 4 Book discussion club, etc. -- 3 Technology asistance/lessons -- 3 What materials would you like to see? Keeping up with the latest YA fiction. More high interest current (ie rap, hip hop, sports) reading selections. Science magazines and books Environment magazines and books Student Survey
1. How often do you use the library?
Never -- 52
Not often -- 37 Sometimes -- 23 Often -- 17 2. What would make you want to use the library more often?
More books to read for fun -- 72
Computers for research -- 59 Nicer looking library -- 49 Comfortable chairs -- 45 More new books for school assignments -- 42 Magazines and newspapers -- 21 3. Would use library:
before school -- 31
At lunch -- 27 After school -- 40 4. Would use the library
to ask for help finding information -- 70 For help finding something good to read -- 52 to check out books for fun -- 50 to check out books for class -- 49 to join a book group -- 9 5. Like to read for fun:
Funny books -- 87 fantasy -- 62 manga/comics -- 50 books about real life problems -- 39 Magazines -- 35 Sports books -- 29 science fiction -- 21 famous people -- 19 newspapers -- 5 Specific subjects students like to read about:
mystery, scary books, science, dancing, cookbooks, war/battle, space, comics, true crime, wrestling/WWE, horror, medieval times, AIDS, pregancy, etc., animal books Favorite books/authors: Goosebumps/RL Stine (many, Harry Potter (many), Pearl S. Buck, Laurence Yep, Jerry Spinelli, Yu Gi Oh, Lord of the Rings, Leslie, Ghetto Princess (urban fiction) drugs, problems, ghetto life, Mya, Flyy Girl, Talk is Cheap, high school drama and about the ghetto, Street Love, Burn, Gossip Girls, True to the Game, Lemony Snicket (5), Stargirl, Bud Not Buddy Marvel comic books, Stan Lee, Jack Kirbt, Peach Girl, DNAngel (2), Happy Hustle High, etc. (manga), Eragon, Eldest, Naruto, Narnia books (2), Comic books, drawing books, Captain Underpants (3), Manga and graphic novels (many), Roald Dahl, The Missing Piece, Richard Peck, Judy Blume, Sarah Dessen (2), Footballm drawing, Tookie Williams books, Natuto, Bleach, Dragon Ball Z, Girl Got Game, Rurouni Kenshin, Zombie Powder, Rave Master, Case Closed, Megaman, Hynterx Hunter, Holes, Star Wars, Wolverine comics, Charlotte's Web, Bud, Not Buddy, T-14, Magic By the Lake, Half Magic, Eoin Colfer, The Three Investigators, Nancy Springer, Carolyn Keene, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Amber Brown is Not a Crayon, Tough Tiffany, Using All You Got, Karen Miller, joke books, Cirque du Freak, Darren Shan, John Steinbeck, What Happened to Cass McBride, Everything She Wanted (Ann Rule), A Million Dollar Shot, Life is Funny, Omar Tyree, Nikki Turner, Sharon Creech, Sharon G. Flake, Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever, Any Way the Wind Blows, Fly Girl, Just Say No, Mary-Kate and Ashley, Bio about Buddha, Sports stuff and stuff about K-9s, W Juliet (manga), Pokemon Favorite Magazines:
Elle, Seventeen, People (2), wrestling magazines, Word Up, Right On, J-14, Teen People, Shonen Jump (3), sports magazines, Sports Illustrated, celebrity magazines, GL, Discovery Girls, US Weekly, XXL Magazine, Vibe, East Bay Magazine WWE Other comments: [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Don't be MEAN! To get new books and hire someone to dust the library because the library is so dusty. Make the library clean and big Make the books neater. Buy more books, because the books are like very old. Keep the library organized. Can you make the library a little bit full of books. More modern computers New computers Better, faster computers Let us play on the computers and download online games I suggest that if the librarian can stay longer after school, then there will be more people. Maybe a couch to sit on to read. Thursday, December 14, 2006 Four of Ms. Lee's science classes visited the library today to read about oceans and ocean creatures -- the shark books in particular were a big hit! Students also took time to browse the collection and check out books to read over the winter break. I especially appreciated the students who took the time to tell me what they like to read. Manga titles such as Naruto and Dragon Ball Z were popular, as were series titles including Series of Unfortunate Events and Secrets of Droon. There were also a lot of requests for "funny books" and "scary books". I hope to order some new books for the library soon, including some of the titles students have requested. [ # Posted to mlkNews.] Wednesday, December 13, 2006I am surveying staff and students to get their feedback on how to improve the school library media center. Teachers will receive paper versions of the surveys in their boxes, but I am also providing online versions for those who prefer to take the survey on the web.
Below are the links for the online MLK Library Surveys. You may click on the link or copy and paste the link into the address bar of your web browser. When you complete the survey and click "submit", you will then go to a thank-you page. Your feedback has then been automatically forwarded to me.
The online surveys will be available until Dec. 20, 2006, so please try to complete them before that date.
Thanks! Ms. Doyle
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Dear teachers, staff, and students,
I'm very excited to start work this week as your library media teacher. I hope I will have a chance to meet everyone soon, and to find out what hopes and suggestions you have for the library media program.
I'd like to briefly fill you in on my background. I have a Masters in Library and Information Science, a teaching credential, and a School Library Media Credential. I've been a librarian for 10 years, first as a teen librarian at Los Angeles Public Library, then a school librarian at Notre Dame High School in Belmont. For the past six years I have worked for San Francisco Public Library, as a teen and children’s librarian and then as a branch manager. When I worked at the Bayview Branch, I came to this school several times to share new books with the students, so some of you may remember me from those visits.
I love young adult books and have been reviewing them for professional journals for the past 10 years. I'm also very much interested in technology, particularly web sites, podcasting, wikis, and blogging. I have a web site and blog at www.teenlibrarian.com.
I hope you will drop by the library to say hello! I'm looking forward to working with you, and to making the library media center at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School a truly invaluable resource.
Best, [ # Posted to Miranda Doyle.] Ms. Doyle Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Miranda Doyle, formerly with San Francisco Public Library and an old friend of MLK, will be starting as our full time library media specialist in a few days. She'll be learning how to use this weblog over the next few months. [ # Posted to 9/11.] Monday, June 16, 2003Due to staff reductions in the library and technology departments, this weblog is no longer active. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Bay Area Writing Project, and the over-and-above efforts of our stalwart and talented designer, Bryan Bell of KCSOS' Web Team. Check out the Educational Bloggers Network for up-to-date information about weblogs. And comon' over to my new library site and see where all this goes next. - Patrick Delaney [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Thursday, June 12, 2003 Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Click on the headline or the Grade 6 link in the drop down window to your left, then follow the directions on that page. [ # Posted to Ms. Flores.] Friday, May 23, 2003 Thursday, May 22, 2003Follow oral instructions and structure of your hardcopy worksheets to complete your mini-WebQuest on Roman history. Maps: Tour and Pictures: Web Quest:
SearchBibliography: [ # Posted to Ms. Flood.] Wednesday, May 21, 2003Mr. McCachren's art students! Click the headline to see a FIRST DRAFT example of what your artwork can look like when it's used in a MLK website banner. Congratulations to Francis R.! Remember - this is just a first draft. It'll look even better when the artist does the second draft with color. [ # Posted to Library Media Center.] Tuesday, May 20, 2003Maps: Tour and Pictures: Web Quest:
SearchBibliography: [ # Posted to 9/11.] Monday, May 19, 2003Here's an interesting and perhaps lucrative assignment for you "wanna'be" artists. We need website banner designs for our new domain of MLK weblogs. Follow along as we glimpse the kinds of designs we're looking for. You then get to try your own design on an 11 inch by 4 inch piece of stratch paper. Mr. Mc, Mr. D. and Ms. Claxton will select the best from the lot. Then you get to redo the design on some high quality art paper with pastel paints. The area circled in yellow below is where your design will go:
The background color will be blue or black. To see an example of how it might look if you did a "tag" design, click mlkNews. Here are some other sample banners:
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Click the headline to get to the pictures list. Then follow instructions on how to insert your picture into your story on the 6th. grade student web log pages. [ # Posted to Ms. Flores.] Friday, May 9, 2003
Click the headline, log in, and follow the instructions on the Grade 8b page. [ # Posted to Ms. Hughes.]
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