Presenting: An Amazing Online Resource!

Have you ever wondered how to navigate through the complex and multifaceted world of information that is provided by The Internet?

Are you looking for some wonderful websites for your children to use for educational and recreational purposes?

What is the controversy surrounding popular sites such as Google and Wikipedia?

What are some websites that you like to use?

The library will host a Parent Workshop on Friday, April 25th at 9:00 AM where we will discuss a comprehensive and engaging online resource called Great Websites For Kids: gws.ala.org. This tool is a treasure trove of authoritative and user-friendly websites which cover all of the academic disciplines for children up to the age of 14.  The sites have been evaluated and selected by The Great Websites For Kids Committee, which is part of The Association For Library Service To Children-experienced practitioners in the field of library science. New sites are added three times a year and are evaluated twice a year for currency and relevance.

 

During this session, parents will have the opportunity to work on the library's laptop computers to explore the sites on their own, and ask questions.

 

Please let me know what topics you would like to see covered in future library workshops.

 

I look forward to working with you!

A Light In The Darkness

 

 

                                   

  

 

Anne Frank was a thirteen year-old German-Jewish girl who went "into hiding" in an Amsterdam office building with her family and four other people for over two years when the Nazis came to power and began to deport Jews to concentration camps. She wrote about her experiences and feelings in a diary (later published and called Diary of A Young Girl) which was accidentally discovered by Miep Gies, a young woman who risked her life by helping the Franks when they were secreted away, by bringing supplies, and news of the outside world. Anne died in The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, when she was just under sixteen years old. The diary continues to live on as a unique voice of a young person who lived during one of the darkest times in history.



                                           
 

 

"My story is a story of very ordinary people during extraordinarily terrible times. Times the like of which I hope with all my heart will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see to it that they do not."

 

                                                                    -Miep Gies

                                                                     Anne Frank Remembered

 

In Anne Frank Remembered written by Miep Gies and Alison Gold, Miep recounts the story of her childhood as a refugee from Austria, how she came to work for Otto Frank in his spice business, and made the decision to help take care of the Franks when they were in hiding. Through Miep's unique perspective, we can feel the tension of the people in hiding, their reactions to the events happening in the world around them, and mostly, we learn about Anne Frank, who loved movie stars, spending time with her friends, and writing in her diary. When Anne and her family were betrayed and arrested, it was Miep who found the diary which the Nazis had carelessly tossed aside in their raid of the hiding place, and gave it to Otto Frank, the only survivor of the families in hiding.

 

This is a beautifully written, heartfelt, and touching account of a person who decided not to be a bystander and follow the dictates of her own heart as the world crumbled around her. It is a stunning tribute to what makes us human.