Uxbridge High School Library Newsletter

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Welcome Back!
Welcome back to school everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your summers! Please stop by the UHS Library when you have a chance. There are some fabulous new books waiting for you! You'll see some cover images of a few new ones below. And of course, new magazines are waiting for you too :) Mrs. Fournier is also happy to assist you with all of your research needs, don't hesitate to stop by the circulation desk with any questions or to schedule a research tutorial.

Volume 2, Issue 1 September 16, 2011

Here's to a great 2011 - 2012 school year!

Uxbridge High School Library 62 Capron Street Uxbridge, MA 01569

Mrs. Kirsten Fournier, Librarian kfournier@uxbridge.k12.ma.us (508) 278-7231

Library Hours:

Next UHS Book Club Meeting, 9/21

The UHS book club will be holding our first meeting of the year on Wednesday, 9/21 after school at 2:00pm. No need to read anything for the first meeting, well just chat about what we like to read and pick a book for our next meeting. New members are always welcome! Please consider joining us for a great discussion. Snacks will be provided :)

M-F: 8:30-12:30, 1:45-2:30

Twitter: uhslibrary

Inside this issue:

Welcome Back UHS Student Book Club Back to School Podcasts Banned Books Week Info Literacy Skills Class Summer Reading Books 1 1 1 2 2 2

15 Essential Back to School Podcasts

Mashable, an independent news source dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology, recently named their top picks of essential back to school podcasts. Here are some great ones, including The Math Dude, to add to your iTunes library.

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September 24October 1 is Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States. Intellectual freedomthe freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopularprovides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them. Some frequently challenged books include F. Scott Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye, John Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath, Harper Lees To Kill A Mockingbird, among many others!

First trimester of new Information Literacy Skills Class

The first trimester of our new Information Literacy Skills Class is now in session. Students in this class are learning to become more comfortable in clearly defining a subject or area of investigation, formulating a search strategy that encompasses various sources of information, and analyzing the information collected for value, relevancy, and quality. Students are also exploring how to use various forms of social media in the research process by experimenting with different presentation formats, online collaborative tools, and understanding how one can use social media responsibly in an academic setting. In library newsletters to come, there will be a Social Media Corner in which a new social media technology is profiled each month. This month, were profiling Wikispaces. Wikispaces is an online tool that can be used to build communities. With Wikispaces, groups have the freedom to publish pages and discuss content with no real technical knowledge required. A great tool for collaboration in the research process, our Information Literacy Skills class contributes to and discusses class assignments regularly on a wiki created specifically for our class. For more information about Wikispaces, or to create your own class wiki, please visit: http://www.wikispaces.com/

Donate your summer reading books to the UHS Library

Thank you to everyone who participated in our new summer reading program this year. I hope everyone enjoyed their discussion groups! Our books have created a little bit of buzz among students and staffplease consider donating those copies you no longer want to the UHS Library so we can share some great books!

* Dont forget to check out the Library Research Tutorial now posted on the library blog!