Open Culture announced today that The Guggenheim Foundation has made 65 catalogues of modern art available free for online reading. These are excellent resources for any student of art. Images are beautifully scanned, fully annotated and the books themselves are a pleasure to view and read online. Take a look for yourself. We’ve saved the link on the Library OPAC:
Have you set yourself resolutions for 2012? Let the library support you in keeping those. Scroll down to find the resolution/s that most closely resemble yours.
Lose weight and eat more healthfully/help my family eat more healthfully.
The IST library has a varied collection of healthy cookbooks for beginning to advanced cooks. Browse our 641.5 section for recipes to start a “Kids Turn to Cook” night at home or try out with friends. Don’t forget to bring us a sample!
Exercise more.
The 613 and 790 sections of the library have lots of titles on fitness and the different sports. Find a buddy to help you stay committed and come together to the library to find exercise resources. Remember, the important thing is to keep it fun.
Get out and do more in Tianjin.
We have several useful links for you on the library OPAC. (Links to the OPAC from home and school are found on the top left sidebar of this page.)
Click on the Visual tab,
and then on Local Events for links to online magazines for Beijing and Tianjin expats.
Stay in touch with current events/Help my child(ren) stay in touch with current events.
We have collected online newspapers for children on the library OPAC. From the Visual tab (shown above), click on Current Events-Many Languages. You will find links to online newspapers in seven different languages: English, Chinese, Korean, French, German, Danish, and Portuguese. Need more advanced news reports? Ask the librarians to show you how to access the Newsbank online database.
Learn/practice a foreign language.
Log in to the library OPAC to access the PowerSpeak Language database. We offer this language learning feature thanks to the IST World Languages department who fund it for the school community. You will need your library account login information to access PowerSpeak. Parents are welcome to request a library account at the circulation desk.
Read more fiction/non-fiction.
With over 30,000 titles in six different languages, we can certainly help you get a great deal of reading material. Here are some ideas:
Make the library part of my daily or weekly routine.
We’re here to help you. Visit us at anytime for book recommendations, help with research, information literacy tutoring or just to chat about our good fortune in having access to such a wonderful library.
Last tip for a great 2012: Come to the library to get a library account if you don’t have one and subscribe to this blog so you do not miss on any IST library news. (Scroll down the right sidebar for the subscription button.)
The grade 2 and 3 Library Club has been very busy practicing their reading and oral performance skills. The students chose to dramatize two books from the popular Fly Guy series by Tedd Arnold, Shoo, Fly Guy and There Was a Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy. The students wrote the script and Ms. Fang, the lead teacher for this session’s Library Club, made sure to balance the speaking lines among all the students.
Both books were performed at the last Library Club session this week, with the IST TAs as audience. The students had been given an oral performance rubric to help focus them and they all did wonderfully. The audience was greatly entertained and the students had lots of fun acting out Fly Guy’s antics.
Next up for the g2/3 Library Club? Reading and dramatizing The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins, a picture book about a shoemaker’s elf who learns to take care of library books. This book will also serve as a chance to practice locating and shelving of library books. Also in the plans for the club will be writing haiku poetry, inspired by the book Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys by Bob Razca.
P.S. Please let us know in the comments if the links we’ve included to the books work. Thank you.
Tags: 2011-2012·books·LibraryClub
We would like to invite all parents to join a book club to explore quality literature in English. A book club is a group of people who meet regularly to discuss a particular title all members have read. The discussion may center on the characters, the plot, the themes and the reactions of the book club members.
Our first book will be Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok. This is the story of a Chinese American girl who is an excellent student during the day and a sweatshop girl at night. She is caught between the culture of her American high school and her mother’s culture. It promises to be a great read and one that will spark interesting discussions. This is also a Panda Book for Mature Readers this year.
We have one copy of the book in the library. It was for sale at this week’s book fair. See the registration form for online bookstores where you can purchase the book. You can also choose to have us purchase the book for you. The price will be around 200RMB. If you want us to purchase the book for you, please come to the library or send the money with your child so that we can place the order.
As this is our first book club meeting, we give you the chance to choose the day and time. Please fill out the form below to register. The deadline for registration and book purchase request is January 13.
Tags: 2011-2012·bookclub·books·Panda Books
Bo Kyeong in 8Q and Do Won Kim in 11C kindly donated many quality Korean books to the library, including a big series of biographies, famous fairy/folktales and the “Greatest 100” series. Bo Kyeong and Do Won, thank you for your generosity! The Korean community will definitely benefit from these.
IST has been the grateful recipient of several corporate and personal donations in recent years, most recently the donation from NNE Pharmaplan (Tianjin) of Danish books and the Airbus French and German collection. We greatly appreciate the support of our corporate community and we are also open to additional funding.
We welcome books in any languages that are in line with students’ academic needs and interests. We are especially interested in books in Portuguese as our Portuguese community is growing. Please note that we prefer hard cover books, recent fiction and non-fiction, and that we reserve the right of refusal if we feel that books would not be appropriate to our collection.
The IST library works for the entire community. We are grateful for your support!
Bo Kyeong and Do Won
The Beijing Star Kids Book Fair held on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week was very successful. There was a good selection of high quality and popular titles, as well as our Panda Book titles, which can be difficult to find elsewhere. Thanks to the purchases of our community over the two days, the library was able to acquire over 3000RMB fiction titles for our collection.
We usually have three large book purchases a year. We submit an order in May, in October and in February. The titles from the book fair join our October purchases in a “new arrivals” list that you can browse through on the library OPAC’s Visual tab.
Access the library OPAC from the QuickLinks menu on www.istianjin.org.
Click on the Visual tab of the OPAC and then click on New Arrivals. The list of new books in December is found in the button, “New books for December 2011.”
You could also come to the library and browse our new book shelves. But hurry – the library closes at 3:30 on Friday for the December holiday!
Some photos from the book fair:
Congratulations to our circulation assistant, Ms. Jessica Yu, who gave birth last week to a beautiful baby boy. We wish Ms. Yu and her darling Wang Jiahe a long and happy life together.
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Here are the top 10 books checked out in November. How many of these did you read?
1. Germs, by Martin Howard
2. The Call, by Michael Grant
3. Art & Max, by David Weisner
4. The Candymakers, by Wendy Mass
5. Maudie and Bear, by Jan Omerod
6. The Emerald Atlas, by John Stephens
7. Geronimo Stilton: The Discovery of America
8. Interrupting Chicken, by David Ezra Stein
9. More 5-Minute Princess Stories, by Lara Rice Bergen
10. Geronimo Stilton: The Thirteen Ghosts
Books make the best gifts.
Tags: 2011-2012·books·booksale·pandabooks
We are offering three short workshops on Wednesday, December 7 from 8:05 – 8:25 in the library. Please complete the form below if you would like to participate.
PowerSpeak Languages: We will have a basic introduction to this language-learning database which supports students of Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. We will learn to log in through the library OPAC, create a personal account and take a brief look at the Chinese-learning options.
Elementary Databases: We will look at 2 databases available for the elementary students through the library OPAC: Britannica Online Encyclopedia and Pebble Go. Come to see how you can support your child/ren’s inquiry with these two authoritative and accurate resources.
Secondary Databases: We will learn to access the library OPAC and 2 of the databases we subscribe to: ABC-CLIO and Facts-on-File. Come and familiarize yourself with the resources your child/ren are using for class work and research assignments.
Tags: 2011-2012·databases·Events·tutorial·tutorials·workshops
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