E.News for Schools

Date:

November / December 2007

To:

Secondary Schools

From:

King County Library System

News from Sammamish Public Library

Our Study Zone tutors are feeling lonely!  Please let students know that free homework help is available at the library Monday through Wednesday, 4-6pm.  Tuesday is the best day for advanced math or science help.  No reservation needed, just first come, first served.  The Teen Book Lovers Group continues to meet on the first Tuesday of the month from 3:30-4:30pm.  We talk books while eating pizza and cookies.  Teens can also get a free paperback book by participating in Read 3 Get 1 Free.  Read three books, write three short reviews, choose a paperback to keep.

 

Featured Online Databases: African American Experience and Latino American Experience

Log on to www.kcls.org

Select “Databases” at the top of the KCLS homepage.

Select “Alphabetical List of KCLS Databases”

Then select: “African American Experience” or scroll down to “Latino American Experience”.

 

Two new databases, just added to KCLS in September, come to us from Greenwood Publishing.  As Greenwood states, the databases have two primary goals, “…to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African [and Latino] Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources.”  Drawing on over 400 volumes for the first database, and over 150 volumes for the second, the two together include interviews with former slaves, as well as lesson plans, timelines, photographs, and links to hundreds of vetted web sites.

 

Featured Homework Help Sites: Hispanic Heritage and Black History

Log on to www.kcls.org

Scroll down to select Homework Help from the list of items under “Research and Homework”.  Select Homework Help Subject Guide, then select Hispanic-Americans, under “Biographies and Famous People”, and finally select Celebrating Hispanic Heritage.  For the corresponding Black History site, click here.

 

Complementing the databases found above, these web sites, created by Gale, provide students with links to biographical information, selected titles of significant literature, timelines, quizzes, and links to other recommended web sites.