School Meeting January 11 features Music and Dance

To continue the exhilarating spirit of this week's school meeting, library staff invite you to visit the American Song online database.  American Song is best described by the database itself as "a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more,"

Visit our library – in person OR online - to read about the library connection for many of Deerfield Academy’s informative events.

School Meeting January 4: The Importance of Sleep

The January 4 school meeting included an inspiring presentation by Mrs. Loftus on the importance of a proper night's sleep.  Among the library's bounty of information on this subject is the Teen Health & Wellness database as well as the library's informative circulating collection.

Library Display: Nigel Newton, DA Alumnus, and Founder of Bloomsbury Press

The Boyden Library is currently featuring a display of books that were given as a gift by Bloomsbury Press. Nigel Newton, DA Class of 1973, is the founder and chief executive of Bloomsbury Press.

December Library Question of the Month

At the request of his daughter, this Deerfield Academy alumnus published J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series. Who is he?

Be sure to drop off your answer in the Question of the Month Box located at the entrance of our library. Good luck!

From all the correct answers, a winner will be drawn and a prize will be awarded on January 3, 2011. 

School Meeting December 7: Human Rights Watch

The Tuesday, December 7 School Meeting featured Carol Bogart of Human Rights Watch.  Ms. Bogart discussed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and overviewed her organization's mission of focusing upon research, writing reports of violations of human rights in each country around the world, and of publicizing these research documents with the goal of making the abuses stop. 

Visit the library for more information on human rights.

Create a Boyden NoodleBib Account

Use Your Noodle
 with NoodleBib

The Boyden Library subscribes to NoodleBib ..."The Web's most comprehensive and accurate MLA ...bibliography composer with fully-integrated note-taking."*

• Create a Boyden Library NoodleBib Account
• Use NoodleBib to produce a Bibliography
• Generate Footnotes & Endnotes with NoodleBib

 *     "Homepage," NoodleTools: MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian Bibliography Composer, Online Notecards, NoodleTools Inc., n.d. Web. 30 Nov.  2010. <http://www.noodletools.com/index.php>.

Visit the Boyden Library Moodle Web Page

To view a selection of the library's recent instruction classes as well as our current production of Use Your Noodle with NoodleBib slide shows,  visit the library's Moodle webpage.  No registration is required ~ sign in as our guest.  

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