Library Skills on Video

Library and research skills are lifelong skills as the library provides all kinds of information for people of all ages. And now with inter-library loans almost any information is at your fingertips.  For adults looking for a job there is now an application in the GALE databases  that can help you write a resume as well as check out the businesses in Vermont and elsewhere.  Public libraries in Vermont have those GALE databases available free of cost.  There is so much more to explore within that database and other library resources.  And, of course, all those fiction books that can be borrowed add up to many hours of enjoyment!

The Gale databases present reliable information to library patrons.  How do you know if online information is reliable?  There is a great YouTube Video at this location which explains exactly how to vet your information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_qR5lpnXBE.

Students in other schools have made videos explaining different library skills and concepts.
They can be found on YouTube.  And, indeed, these few short videos stand out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE6GMOFQ0U 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrTu9hwJWlg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r287aWBYJq8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02Vz2YH7-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqRWlIW4YJg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf5QYSBy8zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwoa8sDiIOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERsLLXlkfTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_x3JzuhwdI

2014 - 2015 Dorothy Canfield Fisher List

The complete 2014 - 2015 DCF list with discussion questions can be found at Vermont's Department of Library website at this address, http://libraries.vermont.gov/libraries/cbec/dcf.  More information including good reads for students can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/cesuvt.org/dcf-award/.


Students in Grades 4 - 8 will be able to attend a "DCF" party this coming spring if they read a total of five books on the list and answer one discussion question (or curriculum connection) on Benson's DCF blog.  The blog address is http://bvsreads.blogspot.com/.

 This year's list of DCF books include:

Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Master List 2014 – 2015

AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	GRADE
Black, Holly	Doll Bones	Margaret K. McElderry	5 up
DiCamillo, Kate	Flora & Ulysses	Candlewick	4 up
Federle, Tim	Better Nate Than Ever	Simon & Schuster	5 up
Fleming, David	Saturday Boy	Viking Juvenile	6 up
Frost, Helen	Salt: A Story of Friendship in a Time of War	FSG	5 up
Gewirtz, Adina Rishe	Zebra Forest	Candlewick	6 up
Goldblatt, Mark	Twerp	Random House	6 up
Grabenstein, Chris	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library	Random House	5 up
Greenberg, Jan & Sandra Jordan	The Mad Potter: George E. Ohr, Eccentric Genius	Roaring Brook Press	5 up
Harrington, Karen	Sure Signs of Crazy	Little, Brown	6 up
Hasak-Lowy, Todd	33 Minutes...Until Morgan Sturtz Kicks My Butt	Aladdin	5 up
Hopkinson, Deborah	The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel	Knopf	5 up
Kadohata, Cynthia	The Thing About Luck	Atheneum	5 up
Kurtz, Chris	The Adventures of a South Pole Pig	Harcourt	4 up
LaValley, Josanne	The Vine Basket	Clarion Books	6 up
Leyson, Leon	Boy on the Wooden Box	Atheneum	6 up
Marino, Nan	Hiding Out at the Pancake Palace	Roaring Brook Press	5 up
McNeal, Tom	Far Far Away	Knopf	7 up
Ottaviani, Jim	Primates:The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas	First Second	5 up
Peck, Richard	The Mouse With the Question Mark Tail	Dial	4 up
Pileggi, Leah	Prisoner 88	Charlesbridge	5 up
Sloan, Holly Goldberg	Counting by 7s	Dial	6 up
Stone, Tanya Lee	Courage Has No Color	Candlewick	6 up
Sullivan, Tara	Golden Boy	Putnam Juvenile	7 up
Swanson, James	“The President Has Been Shot!”: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy	Scholastic	6 up
Timberlake, Amy	One Came Home	Knopf	5 up
Urban, Linda	The Center of Everything	HMH Books for Young Readers	4 up
Vande Velde, Vivian	Frogged	Harcourt	4 up
Vawter, Vince	Paperboy	Random House	5 up
Williams-Garcia, Rita	P.S. Be Eleven	Amistad/HarperCollins	5 up

Red Clover Program 2014 - 2015

More detailed information about this year's Red Clover book list can be found at Vermont's Department of Library website  (http://libraries.vermont.gov/libraries/cbec/redclover) and the Vermont Center for the Books - Mother Goose Programs (http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/).

The list of books are as follows: