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Scholastic Book Club Orders Arrived

February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics

The Scholastic Book Clubs orders we placed before the Chinese New Year break arrived this week. Thanks to the purchases of our community members, the IST library was able to acquire many excellent new titles for our library collection as well as many books for the ESL classrooms from grades 1 to 5. To see [...]

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Reading the Spine of a Book

February 17th, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics

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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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BrainPop Goes Mobile

November 16th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics

The good news is if you are a student/parent/teacher/community member at IST, you can enjoy and learn from BrainPop, the educational database for kindergarten to grade 99, on your computers. This is a great resource that we make available to you through our library OPAC. A link to the library OPAC can be found at [...]

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