WHS InfoTech Team Newsletter Sep.-Oct. 2022 |
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Hello! Welcome back! Please stop by to say hello, and let us know how we can help. This newsletter contains information about upcoming events, access to resources, and suggestions for things to listen to or read. Check it out! |
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Event of the Month Banned Books Week |
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"Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. For 40 years, the annual event has brought together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship." ~ALA Click on the button below to access the American Library Association's website. |
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Database of the MonthABC-CLIO |
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"ABC-CLIO is an award-winning publisher of reference, contemporary thought, and professional development content, created to help students, educators, librarians, and general readers of all ages wrestle with complex challenges. Throughout our history, we have invested resources in the development of new content genres, giving our diverse customer and reader communities the opportunity to explore deep factual treatments of the topics that matter, and delivering the most current scholarship and perspectives on those topics." ~ABC-CLIO |
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In celebration of Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, we are suggesting these titles to add to your TBR (or listened to) list. |
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Ebook to Borrow With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo |
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"With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has to make the tough decisions, and do what must be done. The one place she can let her responsibilities go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness.
Still, she knows she doesn’t have enough time for her school’s new culinary arts class, doesn’t have the money for the class’s trip to Spain—and shouldn’t still be dreaming of someday working in a real kitchen. But even with all the rules she has for her life—and all the rules everyone expects her to play by—once Emoni starts cooking, her only real choice is to let her talent break free." ~Goodreads Available on Sora. Select Windham/Raymond School District and log in with Google. Click on the image above to access the Ebook. Click on the button below to read a book review. |
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Audiobook to Borrow Lobizona by Romina Garber |
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"Some people ARE illegal.
Lobizonas do NOT exist.
Both of these statements are false.
Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. As an undocumented immigrant who's on the run from her father's Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida.
Until Manu's protective bubble is shattered.
Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past--a mysterious "Z" emblem—which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.
As Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it's not just her U.S. residency that's illegal. . . .it's her entire existence." ~Goodreads
Available on Sora. Select Windham/Raymond School District and log in with Google. Click on the image above to access the audiobook. Click on the button below to read a book review. |
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eMagazine to Borrow New Scientist |
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Sora now has digital magazines! Log in to the site by selecting Windham/Raymond School District RSU 14. There you will find a selection of magazines to borrow, ranging from children's to adult levels. All titles are available all of the time. No waiting! Click on the image above to access New Scientist magazine. Click on the button below to access the Sora database of magazines, ebooks, and audiobooks. Select Windham/Raymond School District and log in with Google. |
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Tech Resource Tech Tip Tuesday |
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Tech Tip Tuesday is a feature to help keep faculty and staff up-to-date with the latest technology. If you have any tips you would like to share, email Tammy Lorenzatti. Click on the image above to access the Tech Tip Tuesday Archives. Click on the button below to see the most recent Tech Tip Tuesday on the latest updates in Gmail. |
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"Spooky season is coming, and Comics Plus offers unlimited, simultaneous access to a variety of spooky reads in curated collections for elementary, middle, and high school readers." ~ComicsPlus Check it out! Click on the image above to access the library website. To get to Comics Plus, hover over "Digital Books and Magazines" and click on "Comics Plus." Email us for login information. Scroll down to find the spooky comics. |
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Video of the Month Podcasting in the Classroom |
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In this video, "Joe talks about how podcasts have become a common teaching tool and how students can use podcasts to enhance their learning." ~CVOD Click on the image above to access the video. Click on the button below to access the Classroom Video on Demand database. |
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Our next Book Club is on Tuesday, October 18th, 2022 at 2:10 in the library. The books we're reading are A Deadly Fortune by Stacie Murphy and Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York by Stacy Horn. We hope to see some new faces and are looking forward to seeing familiar ones, too! Join us! |
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| | Click on the image above to order from Print: A Bookstore! "A historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy.
Amelia Matthew has done the all-but-impossible, especially for an orphan in Gilded Age New York City. Along with her foster brother Jonas, she has parleyed her modest psychic talent into a safe and comfortable life. But safety and comfort vanish when a head injury leaves Amelia with a dramatically-expanded gift. After she publicly channels an angry spirit, she finds herself imprisoned in the notorious insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island. As Jonas searches for a way to free her, Amelia struggles to control her disturbing new abilities and survive a place where cruelty and despair threaten her sanity.
Andrew Cavanaugh is familiar with despair. In the wake of a devastating loss, he abandons a promising medical career—and his place in Philadelphia society—to devote himself to the study and treatment of mental disease. Miss Amelia Matthew is just another patient—until she channels a spirit in front of him and proves her gift is real.
When a distraught mother comes to Andrew searching for her missing daughter—a daughter she believes is being hidden at the asylum—he turns to Amelia. Together, they uncover evidence of a deadly conspiracy, and then it’s no longer just Amelia’s sanity and freedom at stake. Amelia must master her gift and use it to catch a killer—or risk becoming the next victim." ~Goodreads
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| | Click on the image above to order from Print: A Bookstore! "Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of Blackwell’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly), Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative.
Damnation Island recreates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted charity and therapy in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Blackwell’s missionary Reverend French, champion of the forgotten, as he ministers to these inmates, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Corrections Department and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man.
For history fans, and for anyone interested in the ways we care for the least fortunate among us, Damnation Island is an eye-opening look at a closed and secretive world. With a tale that is exceedingly relevant today, Horn shows us how far we’ve come—and how much work still remains.” ~Goodreads | | |
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