Thursday, September 27, 2007
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
Collection of material in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15-October 15. Features an interactive map showing Hispanic history in the Americas ("the roots ... stretch from the Caribbean to California and back more than 500 years"), annotated listing of Latinos in history, interview transcripts with recent famous Latinos (such as astronaut Ellen Ochoa), a research guide on the Spanish missions in California, and more. From Scholastic.
Friday, September 21, 2007
Banned Book Week
Banned Books Week
September 29–October 6, 2007
ALA
Good Site for more Information: Banned Books Online
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Ahoy, students!
It's time again, for Speak Like a Pirate Day. Arrr....Our treasure be books-not gold, matey. We encourage you to check out our bounty (of resources) at the MSCTC Library page!
Friday, September 14, 2007
Happy Traveling to Ben Kohler
The MSCTC Moorhead Library would like to wish Ben Kohler farewell and happy traveling. Ben worked in the Learning Center at MSCTC Moorhead. He has accepted a position as an English conversation assistant in north-cenral Spain, and will be living in the city of Logroño. This is prime wine country in Spain and it is populated with many very small country towns.
Congratulations Ben. We wish you the best!
For more information about Logroño, click here.
Congratulations Ben. We wish you the best!
For more information about Logroño, click here.
A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries
Libraphiliac Love Letter:
A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries -
Curious Expeditions
Beautiful pictures of beautiful old libraries in Europe, the US, and
Latin America, where the architecture and decor reveal a deep reverence
for knowledge.
Beautiful pictures of beautiful old libraries in Europe, the US, and
Latin America, where the architecture and decor reveal a deep reverence
for knowledge.
From: Marylaine Block
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Book Burnings & Histroy
Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
Companion to a traveling exhibit about book burning activities in Nazi Germany. Topics include the immediate American response, how "books figured prominently" in U.S. patriotic slogans during World War II, and later symbols of book burning. Features written and audio material about 58 authors whose works were burned. Authors include Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Jack London, Karl Marx, and Upton Sinclair. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/bookburning/
From our friends at : : http://lii.org/
Companion to a traveling exhibit about book burning activities in Nazi Germany. Topics include the immediate American response, how "books figured prominently" in U.S. patriotic slogans during World War II, and later symbols of book burning. Features written and audio material about 58 authors whose works were burned. Authors include Theodore Dreiser, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Jack London, Karl Marx, and Upton Sinclair. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
URL: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/bookburning/
From our friends at : : http://lii.org/
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