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The Webb School Library News
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Welcome Back to School Webbies!
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Dear Parents and Students,
Please check out the Library's social media feeds to keep up with daily happenings in the Library. We post pictures and reviews of books and websites to Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook. Look for the #LibFeet hashtag.
You asked for it, and the library staff members are working on book recommendations for our Parents. We would like your feedback. Do you want adult bestsellers, parenting books, or both?
Two parenting book that I recommend, as librarian and a parent of teens:
- Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World by Devorah Heitner
- Cleaning House: A Mom's Twelve-Month Experiment to Rid Her Home of Youth Entitlement by Kay Wills Wyma
Scroll through this issue to see upcoming events, and recent gifts to the library.
See you in the Library,
Ms. Hannah Byrd Little
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Social Media Up-Standers
#standupfeet
Our current bulletin board features social media up-standers. So, stop by the library to read about incredible young people who are using social media for good!
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MADELINE STUART -
Powerful advocate for inclusiveness and diversity in modelling.
Maddy’s mission is to continue to spread her message of inclusion; that there are no boundaries regardless of your age, size, race, height, or disability.
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HANNAH ALPER -
Youth blogger and change-maker
Hannah Alper is a Canadian activist, blogger, and motivational speaker who addresses issues such as the environment, anti-bullying, and social justice.
INSTAGRAM
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Celebrate the Freedom to Read!
Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, will be held the week of September 24th in 2017. For this year's celebration, the coalition of organizations that sponsors Banned Books Week will emphasize the importance of the First Amendment, which guarantees our inherent right to read.
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Teen Read Week will be celebrated
Oct. 8-14, 2017
Teen Read Week is a national literacy initiative of the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association. It's aimed at teens, their parents, librarians, educators, booksellers and other concerned adults.
Teen Read Week's theme is Unleash Your Story. The 2017 theme, "Unleash Your Story encourages library staff, after-school providers, and educators to leverage this theme to encourage teens to tell their own stories as well as find stories, biographies, autobiographies, folktales, and more in their local library.
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Author, and Psychologist,
Dr. Michele Borba,
will visit September 19, 2017,
at 7 p.m. in the Follin Chapel.
The event is free and open to the public.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Library
Artist Russ Faxon, who created the Sawney sculpture, has donated a sizable library of primarily Fantasy and Science Fiction books.
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Classics Library
Many thanks to Michael and Sherri Edwards, parents of Hayden Weeks'18, for the collection of more than one hundred books. These books are quite lovely, and many are leather with gold embossed covers.
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Trustees Public Policy Collection
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Alumnus, Trustee, and former International Editor for TIME Magazine, Charles Alexander '68, donated funds for a number of public policy books with an emphasis on the environment and the economy. Alexander challenged other Trustees to recommend books so that there is a diversity of opinions covered in the collection.
We will feature a "Trustees Recommend" book display this Fall. I want to sincerely thank Charles Alexander and the other donors for both the intellectual and financial support for Webb's Library.
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