CELEBRATE NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK: April 2 - 8, 2006
* Lots of activities and events in SLMS*

LIBRARY TIDBITSSocrates Quote/ / Humor for librarians

"Students visit school library media centers some 1.7 billion times during the school year - about twice the number of visits to state and national parks."

Americans make some 3.5 billion visits to school, public, and college libraries each year - about 3 times the attendance at movie theaters."

"A recent Colorado study found that the highest achieving students come from schools with good library media centers."

Americans spend nine times as much on home video games ($1.5 billion) as they do on school library materials for their children."

YOUTH TODAY by Socrates, 450 B.C.(I guess life was no different even in Ancient Greece...)
"Our youth love luxury. They have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for their elders and love idle chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants not the servants of the household. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food, and tyrannize their teachers"

CARTOONS
"Excuse me, I'm lost. Can you direct me to the information highway?"

Overheard outside the library: "They've got this great software. They call them paperbacks!"