Library Hours for Week of July 12, 2010

Mrs. Harding will be expanding the Loranger Library Open Hours during the weeks of July 12 and July 20th. Keep checking here for updates!

Library Hours for July 12-16th

Monday, July 12- Library open from 9-11 AM

Tuesday, July 13- Library Closed

Wednesday, July 14- Library open from 10AM-12PM

Thursday, July 15- Library open from 9-11 AM

Friday, July 16- Library closed

Rick Riordan has a new series!

For all of you who loved the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, you are in luck!  Rick Riordan has a new book, The Lost Hero, and it is the first in a series to be called The Heroes of Olympus. It won't be published for a while, but I have found out how you can get a sneak peek at it!   Just go to this website, enter in the secret password newhero, and you’ll be able to read the first two chapters of The Lost Hero.  You can thank me when you see me next.  Remember, I like dark chocolate!

Well-stocked Home Library Means Kids Stay in School Longer

A recent study by researchers at the University of Nevada reveals what librarians have always known, that a well-stocked home library means kids stay in school longer.

A Librarian in Every School, Books in Every Home- a Modest Proposal

Bob Peterson has a good plan- read his article in the summer 2010 issue of "Rethinking Schools"

Summer Library Hours !!!

Mrs. Harding will be opening the Loranger Library one day every week this summer! Here are the tentative days and hours:

Monday, June 28 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Tuesday, July 6 - open 9-1 PM

Monday, July 12 - open 9 AM-11 AM

Tuesday, July 20 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Monday, July 26 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Tuesday, August 3 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Monday, August 9 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Monday, August 23 - open 9 AM- 1 PM

Tuesday, August 24 - open 9 AM - 1 PM

Wednesday, August 25 Evening Open House!

Preview

Hope to see you at the Library this summer!!

Author Michael Sullivan kicks off Boys' Book Group!

April 7, 2009 Dr. Loree Burns visits Loranger

To celebrate School Library Media Month we invited one of the Maine Student Book Awards authors, Loree Burns, to visit our school. Dr. Burns is the author of "Tracking Trash, Flotsam and Jetsam and the Science of Ocean Motion". You can read more about her on her website. Dr. Burns talked to the 4th and 5th graders about the process of writing a book in a presentation she called "What's Your Angle?" The students enjoyed seeing the books Dr. Burns read as a child and hearing about how she was inspired by one of her teachers to become a scientist.
The 6th and 8th graders heard about her research for "Tracking Trash" and learned a lot about the ecology of the ocean environment and how spills of unlikely objects threaten the creatures who live in the sea.