New Books in Town @ Your BW Library

Researching? Evaluate Your Web Sources (Who is the author?)

Why would you want to know who authored a web page?

Web pages do not undergo the same rigorous editorial process used to create published books, magazines and newspapers. In traditional publishing, peer review, and fact checking are part of the process. Background checks are run to assure that authors know what they are writing about. By contrast, web publishing is less formal, and by implication the information published on the web is less likely to be thoroughly verified. It is up to the reader to check a web page author’s credentials. Investigating the author will help you to trust the credibility of the information found on a web page.

SOPA and PIPA Protest: What do you think? Will it infringe on free speech? What could it do to creativity?

Posted in the New York Times January 17. 2012
Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: January 17, 2012

With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment — a political coming of age for a relatively young and disorganized industry that has largely steered clear of lobbying and other political games in Washington.

The bills, the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect IP Act in the Senate, are backed by major media companies and are mostly intended to curtail the illegal downloading and streaming of TV shows and movies online. But the tech industry fears that, among other things, they will give media companies too much power to shut down sites that they say are abusing copyrights. Read more

BW Reads: Meeting the Challange to Read a Million Pages

The class of 2014 (the sophomore class) read 233,287 pages of pleasure reading during the third triad!  That’s an average of 405 pages per student.  The sophomores have now read a total of 715,740 pages since the start of the school year.

The sophomore classes with the highest reading totals for the third triad are:
Mrs. Sprigg’s third hour class:  26,963 pages
Ms. Bielong’s fifth hour class:  21,188 pages
Mr. Johnson’s fourth hour class:  19,729 pages
Mr. Reidelberger’s second hour class:  18,494 pages
Ms. Bielong’s sixth hour class:  17,394 pages

The class of 2015 (the freshman class) read 206,547 pages of pleasure reading during the third triad!  That’s an average of 394 pages per student.  The freshmen have now read a total of 674,319 pages since the start of the school year.

The freshman classes with the highest reading totals for the third triad are:
Ms. Thurnau’s second hour class:  26,165 pages
Mrs. Matysik’s fifth hour class:  18,917 pages
Ms. Bielong’s fourth hour class:  17,394 pages
Mrs. Matysik’s first hour class:  15,574 pages
Mrs. Matysik’s sixth hour class:  14,547 pages
Mrs. Thurnau’s seventh hour class:  13,880 pages

The Belleville West teachers read 47,053 pages of pleasure reading during the third triad!  That’s an average of 349 pages per teacher—more than they’ve read in any other triad.  (Freshmen and sophomores, the teachers are getting closer.)

Keep reading, Belleville West!

Check Your School E-Mail

Please remember to check  your school e-mail accounts regularly, delete old messages, and empty the trash.

You can check your school e-mail at your BW Library anytime of the day. We have three laptops in the Café area designated for student school e-mail use.

Thank from your teacher-librarians. Ms. Barteau & Mrs. Culbertson

Studious Students

ALAN Conference Flash Back. Forge Ahead

Your librarians, Ms. Barteau & Mrs. Culbertson, along with Ms. Bielong & Mrs. Thurnau meet many authors while in Chicago at  the ALAN Conference. The conference was inspirational as we heard the authors talk about their writing processes and what they are currently working on. There is going to be a prequel to the Maze Runner & Matt de le Pena is working on a book titled the living.

Check out the list of authors we meet. Pretty amazing. Angela Johnson, Walter Dean Myers, Janet Tashjian, Sean Beaudoin, John Green, Matt de la Peña, Leslie Margolis, Andrew Peters, Sarah Weeks, Rita Williams-Garcia, Sarah Dessen, Lauren Myracle, Cheryl Rainfield, Andrew Smith, Paul Yee, Kazu Kibuishi, Maureen Johnson, Abby McDonald, Laurie Halse Anderson, Kristen Chandler, Matt de la Peña, Matthew Quick, Jordan Sonnenblick, Francisco X. Stork , Chris Crutcher, Cara Chow, Sharon Draper, J.L. Powers, Matthew Quick, Kenneth Oppel, Jennifer Donnelly, Neal Schusterman, Coe Booth, B.A. Binns, Simone Elkeles, Stephanie Perkins, Sara Zarr, Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler, James Dashner, Megan McCafferty, Veronica Roth, Dom Testa, Katie Alender, Beth Fantaskey, Michelle Hodkin, Thanhha Lai, and David Levithan.

We also have over 40 new books that we received free at the conference! Check them out.

Book Fair Online November 14-December 2

Shop early online 
November 14-December 2
Book fair will be in the library from
November 29-December 2

Young adult books galore and so much more! Need a gift for the holidays? Books make great gifts. The book fair has cook books for your foodie friends, story books for the little ones, and sports books for the fans. While you are at it, treat yourself to a copy of the Hunger Games. There is something for everyone. 

http://www.scholastic.com/schoolbookfairs/2907804     

 All book fair proceeds will benefit the BW Library. 

Million Page Saga Continues

In their challenge to read one million pages of pleasure reading this year, the freshman and sophomore classes are setting an amazing pace!.
 
The class of 2014 (the sophomore class) read 298,809 pages of pleasure reading during the first triad!  That’s an average of 519 pages per student.  The sophomores have now read a total of 480,801 pages since the start of the school year.

The class of 2015 (the freshman class) read 277,686 pages of pleasure reading during the second triad!  That’s an average of 530 pages per student.  The freshmen have now read a total of 467,772 pages since the start of the school year.

The Belleville West teachers read 42,018 pages of pleasure reading during the second triad.  That’s an average of 311 pages per teacher.  Members of the English department read 19,058 pages (an average of almost 1000 pages per teacher).

Food Drive for Fines

Your BW Library is forgiving fines in exchange for a canned food donation. The library will subtract up to $1 from each person’s overdue fines for every non-expired, nonperishable food item brought in between November 7-10. Food items will not be accepted as payment for lost book fees. All donations will go to the BW Key Club Canned Food Drive.        BW Library Staff