Welome Workstudies!
We have sent a few regulars out into the big blue world, and collected some new faces. To help everyone get up to speed, we put our student worker handbook on our wiki.
Local Authors
As requested, here are some works in our collection by “local authors:”
- Adler, David - Jackie Robinson (New York)
- Bruel, Nick - Bad Kitty (Tarrytown)
- Jeffers, Susan - Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (Croton-On-Hudson)
- McDermott, Gerald - Arrow to the Sun (Hudson River Valley)
- Pinkney, Andrea & Brian - Duke Ellington (Brooklyn)
- Young, Ed - My Mei Mei and Seven Blind Mice (New York)
- Don’t forget Washington Irving counts, too! (He wrote Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle, of course.)
Food and Drink!
We are pleased to think of the Curriculum Library as a comfortable, open, collaborative learning environment. We work to combine a formality that insures our resources and services can be relied upon, and an informality that permits colleagues to freely interact and explore ideas & solutions.
Um, about that informality: here’s our food and drink policy.
Folklore and Fairy Tales
I hear folk and fairy tales are next! (see entry below) They’re found at ”398” in the dewey decimal system, and we have hundreds of them there.
Historical Fiction
A handful of students are looking for works of historical fiction in our collection - stories ”that take place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period.” (I used wikipedia for that.)
We had luck finding examples by “shelf-reading” the spines of our fiction collection. Titles like Almost to Freedom by Vaunda Nelson and Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen Krensky were dead giveaways.
