Author Event with J. Torres
Friday May 20, 2:00 PM
The presentation takes place virtually
Check out his books here on EPIC!
Find his books in SORA by clicking this link.
As part of Asian Heritage Month, AAPS is hosting Comic Book Writer J. Torres on May 20, 20225/11/2022 Author Event with J. Torres Friday May 20, 2:00 PM The presentation takes place virtually Check out his books here on EPIC! Find his books in SORA by clicking this link.
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Spring Book Fair at Tappan all this week to celebrate School Library Week, come check it out!4/4/2022 Our last book fair fundraiser in December was so much fun, and so successful, we are holding another one this week in celebration of National Library Week. Every purchase helps the Tappan Library to buy new books for the shelves! So, please stop on by and take a look, we have something for everyone. The fair runs every day this week from 8am to 3:30pm in the school library from April 4 through April 8. Shop the online version through April 17 by clicking this link. Check out some of our popular titles in this interactive slideshow (click here).
National African American Parent Involvement Day (NAAPID)* is a nationwide event that was launched by an AAPS educator, Mr. Joe Dulin in 1995.
Dulin was inspired after he participated in the Million Man March, and envisioned a day created to encourage parents to begin practicing the goals of NAAPID, which include:
Historically, families were invited into the building and attended classes with their students during NAAPID, but this year's event will be fully virtual due to pandemic restrictions. Tappan will observe this day by offering families four powerful sessions that focus on ways to continue to support their students during the pandemic. The main event will be keynote speaker, Patrice Lee, who is a mom, author {Leep4Joy Books}, speaker, publisher, entrepreneur, webinar host, and workshop facilitator, with a joy for life. Lee overcame many years in a hostile work environment, and simultaneously, while raising a young family, served as caregiver and guardian for ailing loved ones, and pursued a postgraduate degree. It was through love and forgiveness, that she was able to change the course of her work life. Her love of people and passion for life is what motivates her to write, and gives her an opportunity to help others overcome their obstacles too. Patrice Lee shares a positive message in each book to help parents, children, and teens "live on the happy side of life." See a list of Ms. Lee’s books here. Instructions on ordering books can be found here. Mr. Kyle Kipp, Tappan's Library Media Specialist will review some online tools and resources that families can benefit from as we endure the pandemic. Online Technology Resources discussed will include:
As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to Mr. Kipp at: [email protected] From Mr. Kipp, Tappan Librarian / Media Specialist. I wanted to announce that if you look at the front of the school near the bike racks just to the left of the front/main entrance, you'll notice that Tappan now officially has a Little Free Library of its own. The Little Free Library organization is the world's largest book-sharing movement; "building community, inspiring readers, and expanding book access for all." You have probably noticed Little Free Libraries throughout the community as a great way of encouraging an appreciation for reading and sharing literature. Tappan families and staff are welcome to give and take free books from the library at any time, and I will ensure that the structure is well stocked. This is a project that I started, with the financial help of the PTSO, two years ago. The library was set to be installed in the Spring of 2020, but due to the pandemic, it was put on hold until now. Special thanks to Tappan parent, Dan Hamalainan, for building the structure, and Ken and Bernie from Facilities for installing it in front of the building. I plan to do some official fanfare and media recognition of this in the Spring of next year in conjunction with March is Reading Month and National Library Week (1st week of April). In the meantime, please enjoy our new community Little Free Library. Read the official PRESS RELEASE here: https://news.a2schools.org/just-in-time-for-national-reading-month-tappan-becomes-the-latest-aaps-school-to-offer-a-little-free-library/ More information on the Little Free Library program can be found at: https://littlefreelibrary.org/ Congratulations to Tappan Middle School's Library Media Specialist, Kyle Kipp, for winning the Meemic Foundation grant award of a littleBits Electronic Music Kit and a Space Rover Inventor Kit (thanks to the local Meemic Foundation Advocate, Kidman Agency LLC, for their support of local schools and promoting these opportunities). Mr. Kipp will be donating the kits to the school's Project Lead The Way (PLTW) program for use in teaching STEM and pre-engineering concepts. Netflix is starting a book club hosted by Uzo Aduba (from Orange is the New Black). They will highlight a book each month that is turned into a Netflix show and talk with the creators. See the Official Trailer here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/uzo-aduba-netflix-book-club-starbucks-1235030456/ Check out this link to a fun video that explains the activities, as well as some of the great new resources available from your local library: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pEb6vOTz9dAgpipxxmDy5o-T_x-zwbVknGnhDgH0608/present?slide=id.p Summer Game info That warm breeze in the air can only mean one thing... THE SUMMER GAME IS ALMOST HERE!!!! Put away your MUGS, BLANKETS, and COATS because The Summer Game is once again approaching and we won't tolerate ANY talk of winter... excluding the fact that Winter Game badges will still be playable and wishes of winter's cold when the hot summer sun is scorching... but that is not the POINT!! The POINT is that Summer Game 2021 will include all of your favorites, such as:
More info here: https://aadl.org/play OYLA Science Magazine by Susan Hahn (Big Deal Media) OYLA is a popular science magazine for young readers and their families. Every issue offers a look into world-changing discoveries, unsolved mysteries, and surprising scientific principles behind everyday objects. For example, students can read about why bats are breeding grounds for epidemics, when dogs became human’s best friend, who is spying on us from space, or how an ant turns into a zombie! OYLA magazine has been published in more than six languages across 10 countries since its launch in 2015. An international team of visionaries, educators, scientists, and science journalists introduces young readers of all ages and genders to the beauty, wonder, and tremendous potential of science, and empowers them to ask questions about the world around them and make their own scientific discoveries. Their goal is to help transform the image of science, making it open and accessible to all. Looking for more amazing resources? Download the fall 2019 Big Deal Book of Technology for K–12 Educators. By Kristen Arnett March 21, 2018 Growing up, I liked to imagine what it would be like to work in a library. What little I knew about them was what I’d gleaned from movies and TV because my conservative parents never took us to any and only let me read books they purchased from the Bible Book Store. I didn’t know any librarians in real life—outside of the elderly woman who ran our tiny school media center—but I understood librarians were smart and savvy. Cool and collected. They were everything my rowdy, boundary-busting, literature-hating family was not. I envisioned a sweet future for myself sitting behind an elaborately carved wooden desk, surrounded by towering stacks of leather-bound books. I’d read for hours in total silence, vanilla and almond perfuming the air. Pages wafting in a gentle breeze. Nobody around to bother me. With librarianship, I’d finally have solitude. Peace. I cling to these happy memories whenever somebody breaks the copy machine for the fourth time that day by jamming a ballpoint pen inside the feed tray. Or spills their kale smoothie down the side of the circulation desk. Or when a person decides to eat an extra large pizza while vaping in the women’s bathroom. I think: remember why you chose this job? The elegance? And I laugh. The reality of being a librarian is that it’s hardly ever about sitting down and it has absolutely nothing to do with peace and quiet. It’s about assisting others. It’s about community service. Librarianship asks you to do 12 things at once and then when you’re in the middle of those projects wonders if you’ve got any tax forms left or an eclipse viewer. It’s endless questions. It’s “my two dollar fine pays your salary.” It’s a grubby little hand at storytime grabbing your leg and smearing glitter glue down the side of pants you’ve already worn twice that week. It’s finding the right answer to a question and reveling in that small joy for a bare moment before another patron comes up to ask you something even weirder. It’s library work, and it’s exhausting. A certain type of person gravitates toward this field. It’s generally people with a thirst for research, those who love books, and individuals who understand they’ll never pay back their student loans. Every job in a library depends on someone else’s to function. Libraries are buzzing hives filled with extremely busy, frazzled, overworked people. Staff and Librarians work together to make sure that everything runs as smoothly as possible, which it NEVER, EVER DOES. Lots of different types of library work happens everywhere—new jobs crop up daily, thanks to evolving tech and shifting community needs—but there are some standard positions that remain eternal. “The reality of being a librarian is that it’s hardly ever about sitting down and it has absolutely nothing to do with peace and quiet. It’s about assisting others.” First of all, there’s the backbone of the library: technical services. These thankless individuals work in stuffy back rooms cataloging your books and movies, maintaining a plethora of exciting, information-rich databases so that students can continue to only use JSTOR for their assignments. They understand systems that have operating manuals that read like misprinted IKEA furniture assembly instructions. Technical services staff are expected to deliver items that aren’t yet available because they haven’t been published, find books that are absolutely out of print, and expected to work a “couple extra hours over the holiday break” because someone in the Art History department wants access to Interlibrary Loan they won’t even pick up until after New Years. Okay, yes, I’m talking about me here.
Then you have your public services staff. They man the circulation and reference desks, helping patrons on the frontlines by answering continuous, nonsensical questions. These employees have to locate a book when all the patron knows is that the spine was possibly red with black writing and that there was maybe a dog in it. Public services jobs are for those lucky individuals who have “people skills,” but those skills are tested daily by someone breaking the copy machine (again), and then yelling about fines, the renewal policy, and the fact they can’t borrow some half-n-half from the staff fridge. Nobody wants to deal with a patron looking at porn again on the public computer. These are library employees who go home and drink a lot. All right, I’m also talking about myself here. What about youth services? It requires imagination to do this work. It takes patience. It means strained vocal chords from yelling over a room of screaming kids who’ve all eaten too many Publix sugar cookies at a summer reading event. To understand youth programming, you’ve gotta read aloud to a group of children who ask: “Ms Kristen, why you got that metal thing stuck to your tongue?” These individuals don’t bat an eye when a child pees on the storytime rug and then another kid sits directly in the spreading puddle. They somehow keep a smile plastered to their face when they accidentally tuck their skirt into their underwear in the bathroom and walk back into a full program because no one told them about it even though there were at least 3 other women standing in line for the sink. Again: me. And I’m still mad about this. What I’m saying about library “tropes” is that they apply to anyone who works in a library because you have to know how to do everyone else’s job. Librarianship is the understanding that maintaining a library is a shared responsibility. You’re on call to help catalog a book someone requested for a massive paper and then promptly forgot about. You’ll need to sit a stint at the circulation desk because someone else got the flu from working a storytime where half the kids showed up with runny noses and rubbed their hands all over the safety scissors. Libraries are community spaces for patrons as well as for library staff. You perform all the roles, all the time. You learn to love it. I understand now that the job I thought I’d have isn’t the one I wound up with, but guess what? I like it better that way. At the end of the day, librarianship is mostly about trying to understand the needs of people. It is still about knowing. And that’s something I like. Another thing I like: getting to tell all of you that my Tales of the Library will be a recurring bimonthly column for Lit Hub! Join me next time where we’ll discuss those burning reference desk questions, like “Can you help me set up an online dating profile?” |
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