Library Installing New Software!

All the LVUSD libraries are installing new catalog and circulation software next week (April 21-25). This software will make our user catalog accessible online from any computer with Internet access. It will also have a new, state-of-the-art user interface. We do need some time to get it installed and ready, so please plan ahead for the time we will be closed:

• Be sure to check out plenty of books to read on or before Friday, April 18.
• Be sure to borrow any research materials you need on or before Friday, April 18.
• Take any Accelerated Reader quizzes for books you have finished on or before Friday, April.

I am sorry for the inconvenience but am confident our new software will be worth the short interuption in our service. Please contact me at the library, by phone (889-2134 x230), or by email if you have any questions.

Library News - April 4

Author Lisa Yee's visit to Lindero is approaching on May 14. Please be sure to read at least one of her books and complete the AR quiz on it by May 1 to be invited to the assembly. We also encourage you to consider buying one or more of her books in order to attend the book signing on the day of her visit. See the flyer for more information.

The next book club meeting will be April 11.

The next Lindero Out Loud will be April 18.

Please note that the library will be closed the week of April 21-25 while we install new catalog and circulation software. Please plan ahead and borrow plenty of reading material during the closing week!

Pre-Spring Break News

• Have you been playing "How Well Do You Know Your World?" If you have, and you got a good score, print out your score page or send a screen print of it to Mrs. Lofton at the library. The top student and top staff member will win a prize.
• March 31, the day we return from Spring Break, is the last day to vote for the California Young Reader Medal nominated books. Please don't forget!
• Be sure to read a book by Lisa Yee in preparation for her visit on May 14. All students who read one of her books and complete the AR quiz on it by May 1 will be invited to the assembly. We also encourage you to consider buying one or more of her books in order to attend the book signing on the day of her visit. See the flyer for more information.
• Please have a great break, and do some good reading! Remember that we do not limit the number of books you can check out from the library, so do consider checking out several to enjoy over the break.
• Both the Book Club and Lindero Out Loud will resume after spring break. The next book club meeting will be April 11. The next Lindero Out Loud will be April 18.
  

Teen Tech Week

March 2-8 is the American Library Association's Teen Tech Week. The Lindero Library invites you to celebrate by visiting the Lindero Library Webpage, listening to an oral booktalk voicethread (click on the booktalks link), respond to the fun book characters survey, and scroll down to the bottom of the page to play "How Well Do You Know Your World" and practice your geography skills. The library will award a prize to the top points earner. To enter your score, take a screenshot of the screen with your final score (click Alt+PrintScrn) and paste it in an email to Mrs. Lofton. Have fun playing!

Some things to remember:

• There is just one month left (until March 31) to complete reading, quizzing, and voting for the California Young Reader Medal nominated books.


• Be sure to read a book by Lisa Yee in preparation for her visit on May 14. All students who read one of her books and complete the AR quiz on it will be invited to the assembly. We also encourage you to consider buying one or more of her books in order to attend the book signing on the day of her visit. See the flyer for more information.

Master Storyteller Irv Isaacman Visit

Master Storyteller Irv Isaacman will be visiting the Lindero Library Book Club again on Friday, February 29. In addition to book club members, any interested sixth and seventh graders are welcome to attend during lunch on Friday. See Mrs. Lofton for more information

Author Lisa Yee Visits Lindero

We are very excited to announce that - thanks to generous funding from the Lindero PFC - Lindero will be hosting author Lisa Yee on May 14. Ms. Yee has written four popular award-winning books for young people. Hearing and meeting an author is a terrific experience and we hope that all our students will want to take advantage of this opportunity. In order to attend the assembly with Ms. Yee, students need to read and successfully complete an Accelerated Reader quiz on one or more of her books. Click here for a flyer with more information about the event. Please see Mrs. Lofton or your language arts teacher if you have any questions.

Library News

Congratulations to Lindero's top five schoolwide Accelerated Reader stars for the month of November. These students, along with the September and October winners, are featured in individual READ posters in the library and their Language Arts classrooms, and in a group READ poster on the library slideshow at the top of the Library webpage.

We also congratulate Lindero's Classroom Accelerated Reader Stars for Sept.-Nov. Three times this school year, we will recognize the top AR readers in each Language Arts Class. One student in each class will be recognized for earning the most points during a three-month period, and another will be recognized for passing the most quizzes during that period. The list of student achievers is posted in the library and each Language Arts classroom.

Thanks to all the students who contributed posters to the book poster contest. We will announce the winners this week and get all the entries on display in the library very soon.