My Oh Maya!

Ms. Fleet and some of her fellow media specialists were fortunate enough to have floor seats on Thursday, September 27, when author and poet Maya Angelou spoke to a sold-out crowd at The Forum in Rome. Ms. Angelou amused, entertained, and inspired her audience with stories of her family and her many adventures throughout her long life. She admonished her listeners to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud–to brighten someone’s day because you never know what they may be going through. The crowd, which included many students from Rome colleges and high schools, was very receptive to Ms. Angelou’s message of racial harmony, courage, and the power of one person to change the world.

Teen Read Week is Coming!

Teen Read Week is October 14-20, 2007, but since Mrs. Fleet and Mrs. Hamilton will be out of town at a Media Conference that week, The Unquiet Library will be celebrating the next week, October 21-27, 2007. Please see Mrs. Fleet for suggestions about how we can celebrate Teen Read Week at YOUR Unquiet Library.

Here are some of the books we’ve been reading!

Have you seen what Mrs. Fleet and Mrs. Hamilton have been reading on our LibraryThing page? If not, go to http://www.librarything.com/catalog/grizzlylibrary and check out what all we’ve been reading since this summer. Have you read any of the same books? You can even start your own LibraryThing page. It’s fun!

Blatant Bibliophiles are off and running!

The Blatant Bibliophiles met on Friday, September 7 in the Creekview Media Center for an organizational meeting to discuss potential activities for the year. These are some of the suggestions we have come up with so far: read-ins, group book readings, book club blogs of student book reviews, podcasts of book reviews, promotion of Teen Read Week, school author visits, fundraisers to raise money for the media center, and writing activities. What are your ideas?

Be a Blatant Bibliophile!

The Creekview High School Blatant Bibliophiles Reading Club is now open for business! If you are interested in joining, please see Mrs. Fleet in the Media Center. We will have before and after school meetings to accomodate varying schedules. Let us know what YOU are looking for in a book club!