The research our Head of School shared at Assembly last Friday–that multi-tasking actually and significantly reduces productivity and effectiveness–was clearly lost on this freshman. Still, he provided me with the best excuse I’ve ever had from a student, hands-down, for not having done the reading. Hello Ms. Mulligan! This may sound very strange and stupid, […]
Blog Archives
The Rabbit Rabbit book club
As the librarian, I implemented a book club 3 years ago. The students generally read about 5-6 new novels in the club per year as this is about all their busy schedules will allow. Coincidentally, some of the reads have also been made into films so we’ve been able to read and also screen the […]
New bottle, old wine. Sort of.
Two years running, I tried a hand in each camp: one edition of The Catcher in The Rye (what we fondly came to call the “Wee Version”–the maroon cover most readers recall) in my right for the students who’d purchased that one, and in my left, the other–larger format, red carousel horse, sunshine yellow title, […]
What goes around
. . . keeps going around. There’s probably no sense in even trying to find the first link in my personal chain of Shared Lit (not an academic course you can sign up for, but, rather, a course of action, a version of call-and-reponse, of good-reads-as-boomerangs). The latest chapter goes this way: Jackson–a senior–and I […]
Are books becoming extinct?
As a librarian I am constantly bombarded with the issues surrounding this debate. Many of my peer librarians at other schools are pushing all the gadgets that publish books in digital formats. And although I do see value in such items, condone the use of them and provide such items for students, it may be […]