"Little the Librarian"

Sonya Sones, Ellen Hopkins, Lisa Schroeder, Kinky Friedman, and Matt de la Peña

2010-04-23T11:03:00.003-05:00

Ellen Hopkins, Sonya Sones, and Lisa Schroeder Kinky Friedman "Kinkster"

Matt de la Peña

Visiting Author - Jo Ann Hernandez

2010-04-23T11:00:00.000-05:00

Carrizo Springs High School hosted author Jo Ann Hernandez on Wednesday, April 21. She was terrific and informative regarding the writing process and publishing. She has written two books and we thank her for her wonderful and interesting visit!

Texas Library Association, con't.

2010-04-23T10:53:00.003-05:00

TLA was great! They brought so many great authors and I was fortunate to have my photo with them - Ellen Hopkins who we're hoping to get a visit from next year - Sonya Sones, Lisa Schroeder, and Kinky Friedman. Robby and I had breakfast with Matt de la Peña on Sunday. He will have a new book out in October titled I Will Save You.

Attended some really good sessions on using technology such Dimdim for meetings and another on Google Apps. One of the best was a session on 99 Library Ideas - I can hardly wait to pass those on for next year!

2010-04-14T13:10:00.002-05:00

Texas Library Association Conference

I'm at my first session regarding Google and I love Google even more! I've seen that one of the Copyright conferences is being sponsored by my cousin's law firm - that was a cool discovery and will go meet the attorney presenting the conference. The other librarians will be coming on Thursday.

Me and My Nook! I Love It!

2010-01-19T09:27:00.004-06:00

What better gadget than a Nook that combines two of my favorite things - reading and technology! I believe this to be one of the biggest breakthroughs of our time and there's no turning back. When the first invitation for the Nook was emailed to me, I immediately pre-ordered it to try it since I had already been researching e-books and got tired of waiting for Apple to reveal their top secret alleged "iTablet" - has since been revealed as the "iPad". My Nook arrived before Christmas so I had time prior and during the holidays to try my new gadget and thought it was "OK". It was "OK" until I could not get an e-Book that I was reading with my Genre students on my Nook. I highly resented having to carry around a book "the old fashioned way" and realized that I had very easily adapted to this new gadget that was going to replace what I'd enjoyed doing for the last forty-seven years. Some advantages to the Nook -

Fits in my purse and weighs a lot less than the book I'm reading
Can carry 1500 books with me - not that I need to carry around 1500 books. But there have been times that I've been reading a book in my Nook and then went to another book in my Nook to read a few lines. Can't carry around several books at a time just to browse through them
Privacy Issue - Nobody knows what I'm reading
Don't have to look around for bookmarks or dog-ear my page
Have a nice looking hot pink cover
Purchased the light and it's extremely lightweight and works great

What We're Reading Now!

2010-01-14T15:43:00.023-06:00

The London Eye Mystery - by Siobhan Dowd
Little Audrey - by Ruth White

Read a Ruth White Interview on "Booklist Online"

CSCISD Visiting Author Series

2009-01-14T14:39:00.016-06:00

CARRIZO SPRINGS CISD Libraries

PRESENTS THE
"Visiting Author Series"

Jo Ann Hernandez

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Matt de la Peña
March 2009

Matt's visit was a success and we look forward to more books and visit by this Young Adult author.