Thoughts from the Library

You’ve seen the signs hanging up.  Don’t wait…sign up for the Risk Tournament NOW!

The spoils: a week of free lunch.

The battle begins in March.

Any questions? Talk to  Mrs. Nelson.

Teachers, students, citizens…

Check out this site! The Liberty Fund, Inc. “is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.”

The Online Library of Liberty is divided into two sections, the Forum and the Library.

The Forum is the place where discussion about people, the books, and the ideas these books contain take place. It contains articles, essays, biographies, bibliographies, and other educational material about the texts.

The Library is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats - PDFs, HTML, and PDF  ebooks.

Please help to support the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation in its quest to build secondary schools in Darfur. Every penny you spend to buy a hard cover copy of What is the What will go toward construction costs, books, equipment and teacher training.

Check out the Free Library for upcoming events throughout the city and suburbs.

It is always a good idea to understand all of your options. Here are a few ways to find unbiased information on all of the candidates:

Vote Help is a “nonpartisan candidate calculator that tracks the main politicians’ stands on important issues.”

2008 Election Guide

NPR:Election 2008

Darfur Scorecard

I find it odd that our community does not have access to a full text database centered around religion. So here is my suggestion…

Try the American Theological Libraries Association’s database ATLASerials Religion Database (s8362338/trial). We have a trial subscription for about a month.

The Prep community now has  access to a database:
Science Online

and a new ebook:
Dictionary of Scientific Biographies

Both are available for use from home.  Check Moodle for username and password.