Archive for July, 2009

Let s go to the library

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

For those of us who love reading, searching for information, want a little time to read the newspaper sitting on the quiet, the public library is where you want to go’ Multnomah County Library is three blocks from where I live, and you will find me there every day’

As a freelancer, I find the library a valuable resource center’ All of the known world in the lives somewhere in a library’ While I comb the pages of an encyclopedia, children begin to arrive for story hours, children in the parks? S Library for parents who know the value of learning and education’

Children are exposed to their peers, other adults with their parents and first years in the manners and behavior’ I took my children from the age of two years’ They were seduced by the idea of emotion and movement’ If your child is quiet by nature, you can check the age limits that history accepts hours’

It’s amazing what a library can provide’ Of course, the first books, millions of pounds to trust you to borrow’ There is no fee for a library card, whether child or adult’ Just fill out a card at the box office and the librarian will be happy to show how the system works’ Libraries are very lax in the number of books that you can see at once, but it is always better to ask first’ Remember, the books will be even later, as a kind of courtesy and library books are not results that may not have time to read’

The library is popular section where reading is casual’ You can find Koontz, Dickinson and Hawthorne a few steps in any direction’ The books are cataloged by the writer of the majority’ It’s easy to pass the literacy rays to find a writer who wants to read’

Monday is the big favorite in the section Print offers’ I can not see, but much more important that these tests are much easier on the eyes’ It is the mystery section, another favorite, where you can find authors also literacy’ Try a new writer from time to time to see what they do not want you to have thought before’

Most libraries now have movies that borrow’ The trick is to use a search engine for movies’ Each film shows imaginable’ ‘ ‘ Most of the DVD? s now’ VHS, but some still remain in coins’ They are the best movies’ They are not all major subjects and documentaries’ I borrowed? Pirates of the Caribbean? As Good as It Gets, all Johnny Depp movie ever made, and many others’ And it’s free’ Check in your library card as you would books’

There are also books in the library remain in the library’ These books are based on research which is an amazing variety of information’ For example, if you’re a writer, you can borrow books that tell you where you can submit your work, both poetry and other writing’

Need to fix your Chevrolet? Have books of mechanics’ Love antiques? Discover books on prices by the experts as Kovel’ Want to learn to cook – the library has a plethora of cookbooks, ranging from foods for special diets’ All foods on the market can be found in the library, you can visit several to see if they offer anything that might be useful’ Feng Shui? What? S in the library’ Basketwork ancient Maya’ ‘ ‘ in the library’

You may ask questions to which librarians search for you’ You can get help from a multitude of topics – and all for free’ The library can be your best friend and his knowledge base’

The Library – a guarantee of learning Adventure

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Looking for a way to stretch their dollars to the school? The library is the answer’ Since most of us operate on a modest income to find a way to supplement the free software is very useful’ Why buy every creative option that is when can we say?

As believers, we are exhorted to be good stewards of our time and resources’ Your local public library and / or the library of the Christian school associated with their home school are excellent ways of being in God’s will when it comes to administration’ The libraries provide Internet access for research, learning from computer games, books, magazines, reference materials, DVD, CD, school support, monthly activities, and more’

In my four years at a Christian school librarian, I was surprised how little that offer resources are used’ I am so excited for the purchase of new materials and reduce my joy when students did not respond with the same enthusiasm’

Therefore, we can discuss our children get excited about the library and all the treasures awaiting discovery? Here are some ways to arouse their interest:

1′ Make the library part of your regular routine of school’ Using the library should be something like your age anticipate an exciting part of your week’ Exchange visits weekly reading materials, to develop study skills and research to use online resources to provide volunteer work in a unit of study or project, and / or participate in a weekly calendar of the library’

2′ Know your library’ According to Creative home: A Resource Guide for Smart Families, “A family home of the school is the best friend of a good librarian’ (P’208) The Guide is to recommend the development of a working relationship with the local library so that their children feel comfortable asking questions’ Librarians are experts in the field of information’ It is a science of organizing information in a manner that is more understandable and accessible to the user’

3′ Plan to turn’ Libraries need volunteers for various tasks, including: shelves of books, which in the discussions, straightening, helps new users to the computer, and reading to young children’ The library is an ideal place for families to school side by side’

4′ Periodicals’ There are many publications that we as adoptive parents of the school does not give us the house’ The library has tons! Planning a monthly trip to the library to read magazines or make a report based on the most current events are in the newspaper’ There are a variety of newspapers and magazines, newspapers, weeklies and monthlies, your students can use to develop their research skills’

5′ A change of scenery’ Home schools can sometimes be monotonous’ Children are creatures with a lot of dynamic interest’ When school is your room or your dining table, boredom may arise if we are not careful’ The library offers a different environment for all the senses, and in books, fiction’ It is a great place to feed their minds and encourage their education outside the four walls of your home’ In addition, the book introduces us to people and places we’ve never experienced before’

Plan some time to your local library’ This ensures a learning adventure!

A Trip to the Library – Support libraries of love of reading often schools Squeeze Out

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

We are terribly nervous parents when our children learn to read, maybe even more nervous of what he did when they were forms of bathing!

The only more nervous than we in the school, institute, many ways of trying to teach children to read’

When my eldest daughter Rebecca was in kindergarten, for example, our school runs a book in a bag program’ But instead of sending home books that teach phonetic patterns, Cat in the Hat and Hop on Pop, which sent the books in the house that has done something like this:

“I like red apples’ I like green apples’ I like yellow apples’ I like apple pie’” While reading, I thought, “He hit me with apples as unconscious,” which would have been better to finish the book’ But I do not charge a mother because I wanted to be nice and do what the school told me’

The schools have not changed’ I heard from my friends with children from kindergarten to the same mind-numbingly boring books that are sent home because wait for the schools want to encourage parents to read with their children’ I can not understand why there has not been for them that the best way to do this at home, in May we send some books that continue to help children learn to read’

Instead of hiring more teachers assistants, departments of education paid someone to write the guidelines for these books, to approve the books and buy books’ That’s a lot of input on something so stupid, especially when many more books available’ And they sat in silence for at your public library’

If parents really want to encourage reading with their children, a trip to the library is the first step’ And reading to children really bring big benefits’ Spend twenty minutes a day reading a good book and you will see that you have a wonderful time bonding with their children, without the disturbance of televisions or computers’ Your child will improve their vocabulary and develop a love of writing that will stay with them forever’

Maybe, it seems almost archaic to talk about books’ After all, the electronic era, and now computers’ Our children can grow on the Internet’ So why care about books?

I think Marshall McLuhan was right: the medium is the message’ The Internet is fast’ This is not a deep silence or contemplation, or the rise of the imagination’ People “meet” each other online, but does not compare to the reunion of Anne of Green Gables, or Tom Sawyer, or Laura Ingalls’ For years I have heard as soon as the people to read your books on your Palm Pilot, but I do not think is true’ Can I practically live in my computer, but I like the feel of a book and, judging by the number of those still running, I am not alone’ In addition, you can not take your computer in a bubble bath as you can make a good book’

Too often our children are deprived of the great literature because it is driven by television and video games and computer’ And the schools are striving to be inclusive and politically correct, often the best stories are thrown aside’ Fortunately, however, there are still libraries that invite us to enter new worlds, explore the ancient, and learn more about ourselves in the process’ A trip to the library is not just a trip to downtown is the beginning of a journey of discovery for many children, the awakening of a world that is richer than the computers and brighter than the best video games’

And all this is available at your public library for free’ Just do not drop your books in the bathtub’

The New York Public Library Fifth Avenue – a treasure more books

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Proud, Regal, majestic, luxurious manes their agitated by the wind, the two lions Polter, the name of patience and strength by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, to see their noses under hooded eyelids’ As two elders of the State, which should ensure the marble staircase at the entrance to the palace in the city alone, the New York Public Library (NYPL) to the Fifth Avenue and 41st Street’

“What is this place?” Holly Golightly asked a friend to his son Paul led a flight of stairs in the movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)’ Then as now, the NYPL is too often seen as an excellent place to spend an afternoon, especially with children 4 years through adolescence, he met with an anticipation of problems (a little stress in the days that thanks to you) ‘

While only you can stroll in the magnificent halls of the Louvre or Buckingham Palace to admire the many works of art, you can use this palace’ Return again and again as many times as you want, as it is opened in September of days a week, and it’s free!

Walking through the marble hall and up a stairway of two Astor Hall on the third floor main reading room’ Be conducted under the ceiling painted, look at the sky and clouds, and then sit on a wooden chair wearing soft and comfortable support of decades of study and current or past newspapers, magazines, books, rare prints, old maps of one hundred years and any work that was never published’

NYPL art printing, photography and exhibitions throughout the year’ Dejar de vigilar increíble Biblia de Gutenberg de 1455, uno de los primeros libros impresos para mostrar en el tercer piso’ Check the reception in the Astor Hall for all the days of library visits and to attend one of a series of weekly lectures on topics such as “Discovering your roots”, “Genealogy Research” or “The history of baseball’ “The lectures and programs can also be found on the NYPL website (see below) make sure to select the humanities and the social services of the library, and for courses and programs at the left end of the after page of a calendar’ Reservations are not necessary, only this’

If you are a visitor and need to check your email, the library offers free Internet access in the main reading room’

Now a number of things that children can be found on the library computers to make the visit unforgettable learning experience’ My niece seven years Chanel has become increasingly fascinated by words and spent hours in the Oxford Dictionary (OED) computer’ You’ll find the Children’s Center on the ground floor’ Encourage your child to ask librarians for help, are easily accessible and always helpful’

Find three titles on the first page of the New York Times, the day of his birth’

Trouvez au moins cinq livres sur un sujet qui vous intéressent sur l’ordinateur’

Find a book about a famous person’ Fill out the application form produced near the computer to send the form, and then wait for your number and pick up the book in the great reading room’

Search for the word “margarita” in the Oxford English Dictionary team’ When used for the first time and when? Now, for the words you want to know more’

Find out who said: “Give me liberty or give me death’”

In the map room on the first floor, find a 1800 map of the city of New York’

Request an access card for the use of books in the library’

Address to remember: New York Public Library, 476 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10138-0018, 212-930-0653, www’nypl’org NYPL offers a monthly electronic newsletter that will keep you informed of everything that is exciting to go to the library’ Subscribe to www’enews’nypl’org

Hours: Monday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm, Tuesday-Wednesday, 11 a’m’ to 7:30 PM, Sunday 12-5 PM

Directions: From Times Square’ MTA 7 5 Avenue, Bus 42 or 104 to 5th Avenue’