"Roses are red, Violets are blue; there's a library website, just waiting for you!"

• Check out the CUB HUB website for you and your students to use! Go to http://misdlibrary.midlothian-isd.net > Frank Seale Middle School. 
• On the CUB HUB, check out the tab for "FSMS Library & Tech Reservations Calendar" along with the Technology Reservations form for your tech & library needs. 
• Stay tuned for more exploration of the  "Research Tools" and "Databases" tabs on the CUB HUB in the next few weeks!

Let me give you & your students a "LIFT" (Librarian in the Field Today) with research assistance!   

Mrs. Shuffield

The Christmas Season is upon us! 

• The week of Dec. 8th-12th is the annual FSMS Scholastic Buy One Get One Free book fair!
• From now through Dec. 19th, students may donate canned food to pay for their library fines. Students bring in one can per dollar that they owe (rounded up to the nearest dollar). ALL canned foods will be donated to Manna House here in Midlothian.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Giving Thanks @ FSMS

I am thankful....

• For the expression, "Better Late Than Never" - The 2014-15 Password Chart is finally updated with NEW subscription resources. Look for it in your email! I am happy to instruct teachers and students in best practices for these new resources which include:
• Britannica School Online, which provides STEM and ESL/ELL resources, plus support for Differentiated  & Project Based Learning along with reliable resources for student research
• Soundzabound, a royalty-free music/sound effects library for students to use in projects without violating copyright
• American Indian Histories and Cultures database - with one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.
• American West database - which explores American expansion from the early eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century through multiple primary resources
• TexQuest databases - which includes Student Resource Junior and Infotrac Newstand
• For Follett Shelf ebooks - students now have accounts within the Destiny Follet Shelf library catalog so they can check out and read ebooks for free on their devices. Teachers can do so, too. More info coming about how the non-fiction ebooks can be used for text analysis.
• For the Dallas Morning News online - with the Sunday-only subscription print version received every Monday at FSMS, teachers and students have access to the DMN online econtent!
• For amazing FSMS teachers who daily guide and instruct their students. I'm here to give teachers and students a L.I.F.T (more info about this coming soon)! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Shuffield

The beginning of the new school year 2014-15 offers many choices in the FSMS Library:

• choices about which books to read and in what format (print, ebook, or digital audiobook)
• choices in ways students can be involved in the FSMS Library
• book clubs and discussions on Edmodo
• booktrailer productions
• FabLab where students can create and code
• advisory panel to Mrs. Shuffield for which books she should purchase
• WCUB - a NEW radio broadcast opportunity

So, come "CCARV"out a place in the FSMS Library this year and catch yourself on FSMSLibrary Instagram, too!

C=Create

C=Code

A=Advise

R=Radio broadcast

V=Video booktrailer production

Mrs. Shuffield

Summer Reading Through Follett eBooks & Audio Books!

This summer I hope FSMS students will read newly purchased ebooks and audio books on their own personal devices. It's easy to use, it can be done from anywhere with the installed apps, and books automatically check in on their own!! Check out this link and other links on this website to read more about it!!

March Madness! We're in the final days of the FSMS Library's Final Four. Students have been selecting which books of the most-checked-out FSMS Library books they think should win! The Final Four most popular books checked out from the FSMS Library are: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The House of Hades by Rick Riordan, and Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins.

Vote for which most-check-out FSMS fiction library book you think should win the favorite book so far this year @ http://goo.gl/TqhiBO!

In honor of Valentine's Day on Friday, the library is offering a "Blind Date with a Book" this week! Students can come to the library to request a specific genre of book to be wrapped and picked up later OR they can come and get an already-wrapped book from the "Blind Date with a Book" table. Students will only know the genre of the book; they won't know what the book is until the unwrap it. Will you find a book you absolutely LOVE? Come check out a "Blind Date with a Book" in your FSMS Library!