Wintering in the Library

Well....Christmas has come and gone along with our whole first semester.  Where does the time go?

The librarians of Duncanville High School are wintering peacefully here among the students.  We have only be back for a few days, but we have been busy helping our students navigate our resources for their various projects.  Our AP Senior English teacher already has an assignment due, and it was refreshing to see his students in the library at the beginning of the week instead of at the end.

Our yearly book order just arrived this week, and now it is time to process 26 boxes of books.  Some of our regulars are excited seeing the titles they suggested.  Our student aides have been working to help us process the order, but we do catch them from time to time taking a break and reading one of the new books.  It is hard to be mad at a student for reading.

We will be presenting again at TCEA in February, and we are trying to gather our information and design our presentation.  We chose to target eBooks this past year, and we did learn a lot about them. Our book club went totally digital this year.  We bought the Barnes and Noble Nooks about 2 years ago, and we have an old Gen 1 set of ipads.  We also pushed the Follett eBooks with our Freshman classes this year, and we are always pushing our GALE ebooks for research.  We are still in the process of gathering information through our statistics and various surveys, but it should make for a pretty good presentation.  For those of you going to TCEA, we will be presenting as part of the Library Academy on Thursday, Feb. 4th, from 3-3:50pm.  It will be interesting to see if our findings are unique to our patrons, or if there is an eBook trend out there.

Thanks for stopping by!