Media Center Activities

FindItFast!

The MCPS Library Services has a new interactive website for students to use for research. Done in Flash, the site has 29 interactive areas to use:

Click here to go to FindItFast!

Library Media Events and Promotions

Teen Read Week

This year's theme is Books with Beat @ your library®," which encourages teens to read poetry, audiobooks, books about music, and more. Libraries across the world celebrate Teen Read Week with a variety of special events and programs aimed at encouraging teens to read for pleasure and to visit their libraries for free reading materials.

http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/announce/teenreads.html

Florida Teens Read Book Selection

The mission of the program is to encourage Florida teens to read enjoyable, quality literature that will stimulate imagination, awaken curiosity, expand horizons, enhance verbal fluency, and foster critical thinking and a lifelong love for reading and learning. floridamedia.org

School Library Media Month

Celebrating the fact that Library Media Centers provide materials to meet individual needs, varied interests, abilities, socioeconomic backgrounds and maturity levels of the students served with free access to ideas.

National Library Week

Theme: "Worlds connect@your library."

National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. National Library Week will be observed April 10-16, 2011 with the theme, "Create your own story @ your library®." National Library Week is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians. April 10-16, 2011.