Celebrate National Library Week!

National Library Week is a time for us to celebrate our community’s love of reading and literature as well as our freedom to access information and our responsibility to use it ethically.  Award winning graphic novelist, Gene Luen Yang, (author of American Born Chinese) is the 2016-2017 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and Chair for National Library Week. That’s Gene in the picture above. Here are a few ways that we can celebrate National Library Week.

1. Little Free Library.

Bryn Mawrtians love to read and share  books  with their friends and teachers. We now have another way to do this! We have a Little Free Library.  A Little Free Library is a small container, that usually looks like a little house, which is  placed in a community location and maintained by members of the community.   People can give books they would like to share, and take books that are of interest to them.  Ours was built by Mr. J.R. Loder, who worked on the BMS facilities crew for many years.  He built  our Little Free Library shortly before he passed away.   We need your help to find a location for it. With your advisory, or alone,  decide where you think our Little Free Library should go. You might want to take a walk around campus to find the best location.  Submit your suggestion to Ms. Rickert-Wilbur. All participants have a chance to win a paperback book of their choice! If you would like to be a Little Free Library Steward, or further embellish our Little Free Library, contact Ms. Rickert-Wilbur.

Our Little Free Library

2. Libraries Transform Campaign.

Go to http://www.ala.org/conferencesevents/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek and under “Ways to Participte” consider participating in suggestions 2 and 3.  If you participate in 3, you could win a $100 gift card.  If you fill out the form and bring it to the Library, you get a chance to win a paperback book of your choice.

3. Check out The News Literacy Project  Photo Fact Checking in the Digital Age.  We  know that it is important to evaluate  the information  we use  in  everyday conversation as well as in our  research projects.  But how carefully do we fact check  images?  Watch this great video, either alone, or with your advisory, to get tips to determine if an image is  legitimate. If you complete this, put your name in the drawing for a paperback book of your choice.

4. Nominate a book for summer reading! (Upper School)

Nominated books should:

· - be appropriate for incoming 9th through 12th graders.

· - be well-written.

· - have the possibility to spark discussion.

· - stimulate personal reflection and be intellectually engaging.

· - be a book that you love and want to share with others in the Bryn Mawr Community.

Submit your nomination with a brief “pitch” stating why your book should be selected for summer reading to Ms. Rickert-Wilbur this week for a chance to win a copy of the One Maryland, One Book, All American Boys.  All American Boys is getting rave reviews.

Thank you for participating in National Library Week!