Happy Holidays!

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Come craft in the library this week!

On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will have craft stations set up in our classroom area.  Come create something for yourself or a friend during breaks or before/after school.

Our crafting stations:

• Cut paper tree
• Beaded ornaments
• Snowflakes
• Holiday cards

While you're here, check out a book to read over the winter break...

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Happy Holidays from your library!

Winter Break Hours

The ES and MS/HS libraries are open during winter break from 10:00-2:00 on the following days:

December 17-21

January 3-4

Regular hours resume on Sunday, January 7.

Heist Society by Ally Carter

Image from: Amazon.com

The Heist Society series, which the first book is also titled, has been on my reading list since I read the Embassy Row trilogy also by Ally Carter.  I enjoyed the writing of that series and at the time, Embassy Row felt a bit like my expat life.

Heist Society, being about thieves, doesn't feel like my life (thank goodness!) but I still very much enjoyed the book.

Katerina has been a thief for a long as she can remember.  The book begins with the story of how she conned her way into a fancy private school in hopes of leaving the thieving life of her family behind.

But alas, that was not to be as her father is being accused of taking paintings from a dangerous mobster.  In order to save her father, she must assemble a team to find the paintings and steal them back from whoever stole them.

Part mystery and part crime with a little bit of a love interest thrown in, this was a fun read!

Find Heist Society in our library under the call number: MYSTERY F CAR

Labeling the books!

Our next step in genrefication was to label every nonfiction book in the collection.  We went shelf by shelf.  My awesome assistants accomplished this feat in about a month.

For some shelves, it was very easy to figure out:

The Cooking section was easy!

For other shelves, it was easy to figure out but we used a variety of different labels:

A variety of topics in the 000's!

Some topics where harder:

1.  How broadly do we define narrative nonfiction?

• We used a combination of how the book was labeled in Destiny and our own judgement.

2.  Should we split Heath into two sections? 

• Yes!  We ended up splitting this section into "Health" and created another section "Wellness"

3.  What section do books about ninjas go in?  

• After much discussion, we decided on crime because we have a subsection there for spies.  Sports and Fun & Games were also options.  It was a lot of discussion over our 3 ninja books.

Ninjas confuse us all.

And of course, there were the subsections we forgot about and added in as we went along:

• Psychology- we split our psycholgy books into strictly science (Science section) and self-help (Wellness Section). We did this on the advice of of the Psych teacher, who we also confused in the process!
• Philosophy- Wellness subsection.
• Photography- Art subsection
• Design- Art subsection
• Education- Wellness subsection
• Natural Disasters- Science subsection