Creating Better Bibliographies We’re pleased to announce that the Browning library now has a system wide subscription to NoodleTools. Students and faculty are invited to create their own personal ID through the Browning network in order to access NoodleBib, an easy and accurate way to create and save MLA, APA, or Chicago style citations. (Browning’s [...]

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Barbara O’Connor, author of The Secret of Owen Jester mentioned the Guys Read 3rd grade Book Club on her blog! Check it out here.   Next up for Guys Read: a discussion of The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson on January 24th.  

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Selected Reads for faculty, Upper School students and parents from the Browning Library Staff. These are available at the library as books or eBooks. Fiction Last Man in Tower by Aravind Adiga “Aravind Adiga, winner of the Man Booker Prize for The White Tiger, brings readers another look at an India at once simple and [...]

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2011 Browning Book Fair November 11th-14th Lower Gym   There is something for everyone at the Book Fair. A chance to meet authors, start your holiday shopping, and add to your bedside table reading list, the Book Fair is a Browning tradition. This year the Browning library has teamed with the Parents’ Association and Book [...]

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  The American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week during the final week of every September. It’s a great opportunity to think about our rights as readers. Why do people try to ban some books? Shouldn’t every reader – with guidance from parents in the case of young people – be able to decide for [...]

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A note from Susan Levine Attention Third Grade parents: How do I get my son to read, to enjoy reading and to keep reading? The answers lie in giving him great books and good books, the right book at the right time, and showing him that reading is something adults value and want to share [...]

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Here are just a few of the many, many, many new titles in the Library. Come see for yourself!

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This year’s summer Common Book is The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore. The author is a Rhodes Scholar, Afghanistan veteran, and graduate of Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. While studying abroad in South Africa, he learned of another young man named Wes Moore [...]

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The founders of the now ten-year-old website are trying to become more involved in the way students and teachers use Wikipedia. The Chronicle of Higher Education says: Rodney Dunican, education programs manager for Wikimedia, Wikipedia’s parent company, is part of the team working to build the platform, which he said will highlight the ways in [...]

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Today in the library, 2nd graders explored the magazines, books, and websites of National Geographic. We read from the book Face to Face with Cheetahs, published by National Geographic in 2008. The text describes the speed and strength of cheetahs, and the photographs are wonderful, but nothing compares to watching this big cat in action. [...]

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