For the Love of Physics, by. Walter Lewin. The beloved MIT professor whose
lectures are a. YouTube phenomenon offers a mind-opening and delightful
journey ...
Athenian Library Notes
January 2012
Visit the New Library Web Pages The Library’s web presence has been redesigned. It is easier than ever to use the Library’s many tools online. Here’s a quick tour of what you’ll find, or click here to explore for yourself. To get to the Library’s webpages, you can log on to http:// www.athenian.org/library, or, if you’re already on the school’s website, choose “Library” from the Grade 9-12 dropdown list. Once there, you’ll see five new sections: What’s New in the Library, About the Library, the Catalog, Research Tools, and For Parents. “What’s New in the Library” highlights Library news, including new book titles and new technology, and links to this monthly Library newsletter. “About the Library” provides hours, policies, and information on how to make best use of the Library’s many resources. “Library Catalogue” is a direct link to the catalog, so you have exactly the same access at home as you would at school. You can easily find out if the library has the book you need. “Research Tools” provides links to the many online resources to which the school subscribes. Students can use these extensive and in-depth online databases for research in science, social science and literature. Students, parents and faculty can also access the subscriber-only online versions of dozens of magazines, from Golf Digest to The New Yorker. “For Parents” invites Athenian parents to make the Library their own, providing book suggestions and highlights the “Parenting and Professional Development” collection, a special section of the Library just for parents and teachers.
AWE is almost here! If you are daydreaming — or worrying — about the trip to Death Valley or the High Sierra, the Library has dozens of books for you to enjoy and to help you get ready. Check out the special collection where you’ll find books on everything from the geology of Death Valley to wilderness first aid to John Muir’s sketches of his first trips to the Sierras. We also have the group journals of past AWE patrols to give you the real scoop!
Bookplate Contest Winners Announced Congratulations to senior Zoe (Pan) Jin and 8th grader Priya Canzius on their winning designs for bookplates that will adorn all new books donated to the Library, including Birthday Book selections. Zoe’s design for US books is shown left, and Priya’s for MS books, right.
Books are flying off our shelves! The Library recently completed our inventory and confirmed that we currently have a record-high 16,133 copies between our middle school and upper school Libraries. BUT we’ve lost 225 titles in the past year and a half, at a cost of several thousand dollars. Nearly all of this loss is from Library users removing items from the Library without checking them out at the circulation desk. Only YOU can help reduce this loss of school property and wasted tuition funds. PLEASE CHECK OUT your materials before leaving the Library (and receive your complimentary hot chocolate or tea).
Middle School Recommendations After Ever After, by Jordan Sonnenblick. The sequel to Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie. Jeffrey isn't a little boy with cancer anymore. He's a teen who's in remission, but everything about his life is different now.
Akata Witch, by Nnedi Okorafor. 12-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent," with latent magical power.
Upper School Recommendations 11/22/63 : a Novel, by Stephen King. For the Love of Physics, by Walter Lewin. The beloved MIT professor whose lectures are a YouTube phenomenon offers a mind-opening and delightful journey through the most intriguing aspects of physics.
On that day, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? That’s the premise in Stephen King’s latest novel, where a high school English teacher enters a portal and goes back to 1958 to try and prevent the Kennedy assassination.
