New Series Books Are Ready! Put one on hold?

Look below for the list of new series books that are ready and waiting for you at the Travis library!

See you soon!

If you want to put th ese or any books on hold, just follow the steps below.

1. G0 to our website http://www.irvingisd.net/travislibrary
2. Click on "Find a Book"
3. Type the title in the box for Aquabrowser or Classic Catalog
4. Click on the name of the book you want
5. Click on "Place a hold"
6. Your patron ID is your student number (lunch number) and your PIN is the last four digits of your number!
7. Whoo Hoo! Be happy-- your book is on its way. You will get a note from your reading teacher when it arrives, or you can come back and check your patron record.

New Books on Their Way

Hey all you series readers---

I just sent a shipment of new series books to be processed so you can check them out very soon!

New books inlcude

The Battle for Skandia (Ranger's Apprentice Series #4)

The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #4)

Demon Apocalypse (The Demonata Series #6)

The Dragon Heir (Sequel to Warrior Heir)

Leven Thumps and the Eyes of the Want (Leven Thumps Series #3)

The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey

The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2)

The Night of the Soul Stealer (The Last Apprentice Series #3)

Peter and the Secret of Rundoon (Peter and the Starcatchers #3)

Queste (Septimus Heap Series #4)

Superior Saturday (Keys to the Kingdom Series #6)

Totally New Series!
The Maze of Bones (The 39 Clues Series #1) by Rick Riordan (Click here for reviews)
Found (Missing Series #1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix (Click here for reviews)

Already here...
Breaking Dawn

Coming soon..
Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle #3) released Sept 20, 2008

Web 2.0

I hate to break it to you, but Web 2.0 is over. Old news. Passé. Well-- maybe only for the techno-elite.

The new technology is called cloud technology. Since we are just in the middle of 2.0, let's not drop it for cloud tech, but let's check it out.

One simple way to do that and use it for our benefit is to check out the Clusty Cloud maker. Very cool. It creates a cloud of tags you can use in your blog. To do it, it takes your search terms and serches the major seach engines with it. Then it clusters the results and creates a cloud of tags...did I mention that it was cool?

Try it yourself at http://cloud.clusty.com/

Also try the search engine Clusty (an infortunate name.) According to the website (http://www.clusty.com/), here's what Clusty is all about...

What makes Clusty unique?

Clusty is a whole new way to search the web.

Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.

But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.

And with a name like Clusty, it’s gotta be good!

Research with PE Boys

So-- research in PE? Ab-so-lute-ly! The Boys PE classes are doing a great job researching Lifetime Ftiness. In teams, they are researching a sport and making a PowerPoint about how to get involved in it to keep fit. They will be presenting their information after they finish their PowerPoints. Go boys!

Welcome to my new blog

Hi everyone! After a short term attempt at blogging in 2006-- I'm back! If you have an email and know me, remind me to keep this blog up to date.

You know how I am!

Let's talk about books...