Thursday 15 December 2011

Middle School Reading Recommendations for the Holidays

Click on the image on the image above to check out the booklists of recommended reads:
  • 10 Action & Adventure Stories 
  • 10 Books to Make You Laugh 
  • 10 Classics to be read online FREE 
  • 10 Dystopias 10 Fantasy Series 
  • 10 Great Non-Fiction Reads 
  • 10 Historical Fiction 
  • 10 Internationally-Minded Reads 
  • 10 Mysteries 
  • 10 Reads about Life / Love / Gritty Realism 
  • 10 Science Fiction Classics 
  • 10 Short Story Collections 
  • 10 Twentieth-Century Classics

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Recent photos of the library


Photos thanks to Cheryl Yap of Raffles Institution, visiting teacher-librarian.

Sunday 2 October 2011

Borrowing has begun

While the primary library has been lending for weeks, the secondary library has only started lending books to students for pleasure reading during the past week.  Thanks to a troop of parent volunteers, we are getting the books out of boxes and onto shelves.

Until the collection expands, we are asking that you limit your borrowing to two books at a time.  Eventually we will be a library with no definite limit on borrowing.  As long you are continually reading and returning books, there should be no specified maximum number of items.   After all, you might want a non-fiction book, a fiction book, a cookbook, a joke book, some poetry, a visual text, etc.  -- at the same time.

There is a self-checkout station on the upper level of the library where  Miss Ernie Marlina, the secondary library assistant, will help you check out your books.

Students, parents, and staff are all welcome to borrow books.


Sunday 25 September 2011

Kalimah demo's how to cover book jackets

The only plastic covering we do is on books which have a paper dust-jacket where the hardcover beneath is totally plain. This is a small proportion of the collection, but it still takes time -- which is why we appreciate the help of parent volunteers.

Watch Kalimah demonstrate for how to put the paper cover inside a plastic sleeve.




If you're interested to know the reason behind our decision not to cover every book in sticky-back plastic, read this blog post of mine from 2008 on plastic, recycling, and the future of the book.