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Brand. New. Books. Check Them Out @ Benton Library Media Center!What a month! Benton Library Media Center celebrated Teen Read Week with lots of music filled events! The next week, a shipment of over 400 new books arrived! Read on!

BHS is Reading! Benton Library has seen stats on track with last year’s numbers, which will likely outpace last year’s record 15,000 item checkouts! Here’s our stats for October 2010:

By the Numbers . . .

Total Collection Circulation . . . Grade 9 448 up 46%

Grade 10 684 up 72%

Grade 11 398 down 14%

Grade 12 211 up 3%

Unspecified 2749 up 8%

Total 4490 up 15%

Total Book Circulation . . . Total 1557 up 24%

Total Laptop Circulation . . . Total 1630 up 2%

Total Overnight Laptop Circulation . . . Total 191

Total Classes in Library . . .

Total 46 up 15%

Total Individuals in Library . . . Total 1070 up 20%

Top Ten Book Titles . . . 1. Wake 6. Gone

2. Boot Camp 7. Wicked Lovely

3. The Compound 8. Scott Pilgrim, 1

4. Twisted 9. Scott Pilgrim, 5

5. Scott Pilgrim, 2 10. Scott Pilgrim, 4

Whoa . . . Within the 6 days following our new book arrivals, we checked out 301 books!

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October 2010 Newsletter

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Dept/Teacher Lessons Standards Resources

Business/Talbot & Hays Investment Project: researching different types of investments, pros & cons of each, with $10,000 to spend

ICT Literacy CLE: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4D, 5B, 5C

NETS-S: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D

LibGuide - http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/investment

Social Studies/Keith CRAP Detection/Globalization: researching the phenomenon of globalization and its effects, as it started during the Age of Explorers until present time

ICT Literacy CLE: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4D, 5B, 5C, 6B

NETS-S: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D

LibGuide - http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/nashhistory

Social Studies/Nash CRAP Detection/Globalization: researching the phenomenon of globalization and its effects, as it started during the Age of Explorers until present time

ICT Literacy CLE: 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 4D, 5B, 5C, 6B

NETS-S: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D

LibGuide - http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/nashhistory

Social Studies/Elder Wikipedia: exploring Wikipedia’s authority, credibility, and reliability as it relates to scholarly research

ICT Literacy CLE: 2A, 2B

NETS-S: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D

Web 3.0 resources - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=off08As3siM

Social Studies/Elder

Psych Disorders: researching disorders, lesson focused on using tech tools for presentation as well as finding and citing images using Flickr, Creative Commons, etc.

ICT Literacy CLE: 2A, 2B, 6B

NETS-S: 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D

Prezi - http://prezi.com/

iMovie

Social Studies/Sherard History Book Review: finding book reviews for book review assignment required in dual credit American History using MWSU’s databases and resources

ICT Literacy CLE: 2A, 2B

NETS-S: 3A, 3B, 3C, 3D

LibGuide - http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/bookreview

But What About Research? Mrs. Corey had many great instructional sessions this month. View our instructional lessons below for October 2010:

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Resource Date Description/Access

Avoiding Plagiarism LibGuide Oct. 9, 2010 A LibGuide all about how to avoid plagiarism by properly citing your sources in the designated format. Access here: http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/plagiarism

Eyes Past Print LibGuide Oct. 25, 2010 A LibGuide for teachers searching for Eyes Past Print readings for their classes, applicable to all subjects and topics: http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/eyespastprint

Word Wall LibGuide Oct. 1, 2010 A LibGuide for teachers searching for Word Wall selections and vocabulary building exercises for their weekly Word Wall selection: http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/wordwall

Non-Fiction Readings: American History

Oct. 27, 2010 A LibGuide of non-fiction readings selections, including Google Books and RSS Feeds, dedicated to the topic of American History, for both student and teacher use: http://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/americanhistory

Non-Fiction Readings: World History Oct. 26, 2010 A LibGuide of non-fiction readings selections, including Google Books and RSS Feeds, dedicated to the topic of World History, for both student and teacher use: hhttp://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/worldhistory

Non-Fiction Readings: Geography Oct. 26, 2010 A LibGuide of non-fiction readings selections, including Google Books and RSS Feeds, dedicated to the topic of Geography, for both student and teacher use: hhttp://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/geography

Non-Fiction Readings: Government Oct. 27, 2010 A LibGuide of non-fiction readings selections, including Google Books and RSS Feeds, dedicated to the topic of Government for both student and teacher use: hhttp://bentonhs.sjsd.libguides.com/government

Instructional Resources @ Your Library Teachers have access to a number of subject-specific resources created/updated during October 2010:

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Teen Read Week 2010 . . . Books With a Beat!

Teen Read Week 2010 was a success! The event ran from Oct. 18-22 and students were able to listen to the library’s Pandora radio channel streaming all week long, visit during lunch to watch movies, and join the OASIS Gaming Club for Guitar Hero!

Monday: Teen Read Week began with a showing of School of Rock during lunch and Cardinals Read Book Club!

Tuesday: On Tuesday, students were able to enjoy a marathon of the TV show Glee during lunch!

Wednesday: Wednesday was Book Character Day and the best three costumes won $10 Borders gift cards!

Thursday: Thursday was Guitar Hero night with OASIS Gaming Club in the library!

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New Books @ Benton Library . . . 400+ to Be Exact!

Our fall book order arrived during late October! The library processed over 400 books in less than a day to get them on the shelves ASAP! Check out this pics of our new books display!

Students checking out the new book selections.

One of many tables full of new books.

“New” portion of “New Books” sign, made up of letters from new covers. Students who guess all 8 books correctly are entered to win a $10 Borders gift card!

“Books” portion of the “New Books” sign.

Who doesn’t love new books?

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Gateway Readers Award Nominees 2010-11 . . . Now with QR Codes!

Not sure which Gateway Award Nominee you should read? (FYI, the Gateway is a Missouri award given to the best book for grades 9-12 as determined by student voters!) Check out the titles below and scan the QR Code with your iPod or smartphone barcode scanner app to view a book trailer! (QR stands for “quick response” and are embedded with info, websites, videos, etc.). Check out our bulletin board for full-size!

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The Month in Pictures . . . October 2010