2013 Beehive Book Awards

The Beehive Book Awards were announced last Friday.  

How do you feel about the winners? Are these winning titles ones that the students in your school would agree with?

Did anyone attend the CLAU Awards Banquet on Friday night?  It would have been such a treat to get to hear Jon Scieszka speak. 

He also spoke the next day, Saturday, at the Viridian Event Center which is next to the new West Jordan Public Library.  Did anyone go and hear John Scieszka on Saturday?

Finding Your Way Around

Do you use any mapping apps on your iPad?

Has technology changed the way that you get where you're going?

Spring Cleaning

Did anyone do any spring cleaning over spring break? 

I'm not sure what the origins of the tradition of spring  cleaning are.  Maybe it had to do with people being shut in their homes during the cold months with smokey, sooty fires and candles---and so in the spring, they would wash away the winter grime?  

Anyway.... do people really spring clean anymore?

Do you spring clean your libraries?  I used to get sticky tape residue on my library tables and doors.  There was some kind of special cleaner that I had that would remove the residue from the tape, but I can't remember what it was called.  Does anyone know the name of that special cleaner?

E.L. Konigburg

E.L. Konigsburg died this weekend.  She was 83.  

In 1967, her very first 2 books, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Hennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth won the Newbery and Newbery Honor Awards.  She is the only author to have won both a Newbery and a Newbery Honor in the same year.

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg even illustrated some of her own books.

What is your favorite E.L. Konigsburg book?

Jeanene's Birthday

Today is Jeanene's birthday!

Jeanene's happy and fun personality, combined with her exemplary library skills, make her such an awesome library technology teacher!  Her students love to come to the library because she makes it such a happy place.

Happy birthday to her!

End of Year Library Social

Jill and her crew are planning our annual May Social. The social will be Tuesday, May 14th, at 3:30 at Highland High Library.

Check out Jill's fun blabber for more details.

School Library Month and National Library Week

April is a great month for libraries!

April is School Library Month, and the week of April 14th to 20th is National Library Week.  

School Library Month was first celebrated in 1985, and its goal is to celebrate the essential role that strong school library programs play in a student's educational career.

National Library Week began in 1958.  Its purpose is to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.

So-----just in case no one else has wished you "Happy School Library Month" and offered their appreciation for all that you do-----I want to express appreciation for how wonderful, hard-working, and dedicated you are.  You make a difference in your schools!

National DEAR Day

Today, April 12th, is National Drop Everything and Read Day.  

Does your school do DEAR now or has it done it in the past?  How did it work for your school?

National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month!  What are some of the special poetry activities or poetry spotlights you do in your libraries in April?  

If you don't do poetry activities in April, what kinds of things do you do throughout the year with poetry?

As part of National Poetry Month, April 18th is designated as Poem in Your Pocket Day.  Have you or your students ever participated in this fun activity?

Read Write Think has some ideas to use with Poem in Your Pocket Day.  There are also a few poetry resources on our Connect Collaborate Share wiki.

Newest Winners!

Sheryl is the winner of a $50.00 iTunes educational app card!

All of these prizes are for the period of March 20, 2013 to April 9th.

Additional smaller prize winners are:



Margo
Karen
Joseph
Mary A.
Sarah

Thank you all for your contributions to our Connect Collaborate Share blog!  

Margo's birthday

Today is Margo's birthday!

Margo is truly invaluable to her faculty.  She teaches awesome curriculum units, oversees technology for the entire school, participates on school committees, and is always willing to do whatever her faculty needs.  And she does it with a smile!  :-)

Happy birthday to her!

Spring Break

Spring break!  How we love it!

What did you do?  Go on a special trip?  Relax at home?  Read some books?  Visit with family?  Work in the yard?  Do your taxes? 

I hope that everyone had a wonderful and refreshing spring break!

Lonnie's Birthday

Today is Lonnie's birthday!

Lonnie was born in Salt Lake City, but she grew up in Park City.  She and her two brothers loved growing up in such beautiful surroundings. She said that Park City has certainly changed since she was a child there.  She attended Marsack Elementary, and it was the only grade school in the entire town.  She attended Park City High School which covered grades 7 through 12, and there were only 189 students! 

Lonnie says that she didn't really like to read very much as a child--but look at her now!  She makes her living working with librarians and library systems!  And by the way, she now loves to read!

Lonnie can be found scrapbooking and making lovely homemade cards when she has a few leisure moments at home.  She especially likes to go camping with her family.  Stillwater, which is near Mirror Lake in the Uintahs, is one of her favorite camping destinations.

What would we do without Lonnie?  We are so thankful for her cataloging expertise and for the hard work that she does on behalf of all the librarians. 

Happy birthday to her!