Entries Tagged as '2011-2012'
Library books most often show their spines to the world. On the spine of a book you can see the title of the book, the author and the name or logo of the publisher. In addition to this, library books often have a call number label. At IST our call numbers are at the bottom [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·howto·tutorial
In all the excitement about the Panda Book Awards voting, we forgot to post the winners on to this blog! Here they are. If you would like to download and print out this A4 size announcement, click here for the pdf file. Panda Announcement 2011
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Tags: 2011-2012·Panda Books
The IST Library Parent Book Club will be meeting on Wednesday, 7 March, from 8 to 9 a.m. All parents are IST are welcome to register for the book club. Please use the form on the left sidebar or see us at the library. The selected title for March is Out of Shadows, by Jason [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·book club·Panda Books
Periodically on our blog, we will highlight some part of our very impressive and growing library collection. This week, our focus is on Sebastião Salgado, the extraordinary Brazilian photographer who celebrates his 68th birthday this week. Come to the circulation desk to check out any of these works: Here is a brief biography from Oxford Reference [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·arts·OPAC·photography·visualarts
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 [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·general
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·books·donation
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 [...]
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Tags: 2011-2012·books·booksale
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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Tags: 2011-2012