Schroeder Library Media Center
March/April 2020 Newsletter
Introducing LibTube
Our current explainer videos are on using NoodleTools. Let me know if you have a need for a particular video, and I will do my best to accommodate your request.
Remember this viral video? Max Stossel comes to Schroeder March 31
Primary Sources through Smithsonian Open Access
Other easily searchable sites where you can access primary sources include:
Remember the Ladies: Women's History Month Resources
Primary Sources and Teaching Activities: Womenshistorymonth.gov has a vast collection exhibits, images, and videos for teachers.
2020 Centennial Resources: 2020centennial.org celebrates the 100th anniversary of the women's vote and provides quizzes, exhibits, and other teaching resources.
Fierce Woman of Art: This collection of PBS videos includes two pieces on fierce female artists.
Coming Soon:
PBS Celebrates Centennial 2020: This summer PBS will recognize Centennial 2020 with multiplatform content. This link gives an overview of the project.
Hello. I'm New Here.
Access our library catalog to read overviews of these new titles.
-Accused: The Trials of the Scottsboro Boys: Lies, Prejudice, and the Fourteenth Amendment,
Larry Dane Brimner
-The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century, Sarah Miller
-A Fire Story, Brian Fies
-The Poison Eaters: Fighting Danger and Fraud in our Food and Our Drugs, Gail Jarrow
-She Came to Slay:The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
-This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving, David J. Silverman
-Viral: The Fight Against AIDS in America, Ann Bausum
Favorably-Reviewed Fiction
-A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World, C.A. Fletcher
-Dear Edward, Ann Napolitano
-Dig, A.S. King
-Hive, Barry Lyga
-Let's Call it a Doomsday, Katie Henry
-This Light Between Us, Andrew Fukuda
-The New David Espinoza, Fred Aceves
-Pet, Awaeke Emezi
-Thirteen Doorways Wolves Behind Them All, Laura Ruby
-This Time Will be Different, Misa Sugiura
-We are the Perfect Girl, Ariel Kaplan
-Wicked Fox, Kat Cho
New in Series and Sequels
-The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's novel 5), Ransom Riggs
-Devil Darling Spy (Orphan Monster Spy 2), Matt Killeen
-Dream so Dark (Blade so Black 2), LL McKinney
-Ember Queen (Ash Princess 3), Laura Sebastian
-Hand on the Wall, (Truly Devious 3), Maureen Johnson
-Infinity Son (Specter 1), Adam Silvera
-The Iron Will of Genie Lo (Genie Lo 2), FC Yee
-The King of Crows (Diviners 4), Libba Bray
-Night Country (Hazel Wood 2), Melissa Albert
-Queen of Nothing (Folk of the Air 3), Holly Black
-The Toll (Arc of a Scythe 3), Neal Shusterman
-The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious 2), Maureen Johnson
-The Wicked King (Folk of the Air 2), Holly Black
Professional Titles
-Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, Ebony
Elizabeth Thomas
-Love the Questions: Reclaiming Research with Curiosity and Passion, Catherine Fraser
January and February by the Numbers
January 2020
4375: Total number of student library users
313: Average number of student library users per day
4745: Number of database searches
104: Number of books checked out
4: Number of classes using library services
February 2020
4717: Total number of student library users
337: Average number of student library users per day
16510: Number of database searches
163: Number of books checked out
15: Number of classes using library services
WXXI March Highlights
Poetry Month Preview
Jennifer Strege
Email: jennifer_strege@webstercsd.org
Website: https://www.websterschools.org/districtpage.cfm?pageid=890
Phone: 585-670-5006
Twitter: @wshslmc