Hello! I am Mrs. LeFever, your library media specialist. I need your help to create a unique library for the Institute of Technology @ Syracuse Central. How can you help? Drop me a comment by clicking on the comment link below. Some things I'd like to know:
1. What books should I buy for the library?
2. How about magazines - what are your favorites?
3. What are your favorite things about book stores or libraries that we should try to replicate here?
4. What else? Your input is welcome and appreciated!
I'll be in room 215 this year - stop by! You can also follow me on Twitter: iLibraryLMS
14 comments:
1. Shantaram- this book is by far my favorite book, but it's not that popular.
2. I don't read magazines
3. My favorite things about the library is the quiet atmosphere I can work in.
4. I am Sanjeev Kumar and I, personally, welcome you to ITC. I believe you will enjoy the many personalities in our small school and hope for to have a great experience in the upcoming years you work with us. Thank you for working with our school.
Thanks Sanjeev! I will check out that book! I am so excited to be at ITC! I look forward to creating a great library for you guys! Let me know if you have any other suggestions and spread the word with other students that I am looking for great ideas: books, space....
1.i think people our age would be interested in these specific books.(go ask alice, twilight, farenheit 451, series of unfortunate events)
2.Teen vogue,playstation magazine,hair magazines and car magazines because we have technical classes that would benefit from these.
3.i love comfy chairs that are avaliable for students to read in.
4.i remember you from frazer! i think you'll make a good library at ITC.
McKenzie Dolan
Thanks Mckenzie! Your suggestions are great. I will add them to my ordering lists. I TOTALLY agree on the comfy chair point, and I am working on trying to get some for us. See you soon.
Hello welcome to ITC i am Joy Durfey i am going to be a sophomore this year. I love reading books with excitement or with bits of drama in & books that are in series are very interesting to me. Wish you the best at ITC.
Thanks Joy! I look forward to meeting you in September. Have you read the Bluford Series or Cirque du Freak? Are there any exciting/dramatic series that you would like to see in our Library? Let me know. Thanks.
I have read a few from Bluford Series & I've heard Cirque du Freak is really good so if you could get them two series i would b more than happy.
Thanks Joy
Can't wait to meet you in september
Will do Joy! See you in a few weeks!
Hello and welcome from a parent! I would like to see books that challenge our teens to look at other cultures and ways of life, and challenge them to think about how behavior and history affect us; how kids all have challenges and aren't so different from one another. I read "Black Like Me" when I was a kid, and convinced my son to read it. It makes you realize what it was like in the South for those not so fortunate as ourselves. Books that tell the REAL history... the colonization of America and what was done to the natives, what really caused WWII and what it was about. I have been watching a lot of history lately, and find that my education 30+ years ago sorely misrepresented our history (Or was it that as a society we didn't WANT to know the truth?) History repeats itself.. Scary, eh?
What are these "books" people keep talking about? Welcome to I.T. Central Mrs. LeFever! I'm Jacob {Jake} O'Connell and I don't read a lot so I've got no recommendations for books. I think McKenzie was right on with like F451 and A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I also think McKenzie is right on with the whole comfy furniture. I was in school yesterday and peaked in it's looking very good right now
I think you'll have a good year.
Jake
Annette,
Thank you so much for finding and welcoming me on our library blog! Your input is incredibly helpful, and I totally agree with you. Anytime you have title suggestions, please feel free to pass them on along with any other ideas and/or suggestions you may have. In the meantime, I will keep my eye out for books that challenge our students to gain new perspectives and understandings of our world and the people we share it with (past, present and future)! Please stop in sometime this fall to visit.
Jake,
The furniture is definitely key! I was at Walmart today and they have a comfy deck set for $250! 2 chairs, a couch and a coffee table. I am SO tempted to buy it! I am working on a few donation angles, but if they don't start to come through fast, I might just head back to Walmart. Hey, I can always take it home and use it for the summer, right?
BTW - you have now become one of my challenges! I have to find something you will love to read! :)
Sadly I don't think S2S has any money left from our fund raising 2 years ago :( You'd have to ask Sanjeev.
And I don't mind reading, if it's something I really really like. I just can't get into hugely fictional books like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings (Don't like the movies either)
Books i've read and liked in the last ~2 years:
The Moment it Clicks by Joe McNally (Photography How-to/Memoir)
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
The Things they Carried - Tim O'Brien
And M*A*S*H a tail of 3 doctors by Richard Hooker
F451 and Lord of the Flies were good. Not to say I haven't read more. And as much as I don't read--I'm currently (planning on) writing my own book.
Jake
OK Jake - you are off the challenge list. Clearly, you don't need my help finding good things to read. BTW - love the name Jacob - have a son of my own with the same name! TTYL.
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