Check out the Summer Reading Clubs at Waco McLennan Library.

• Youth Reading Club 
• Teen Reading Club
• Adult Reading Club

June Calendar for Youth

July Calendar for Youth

Gateway to Knowledge Traveling Exhibit

West Waco Library & Genealogy Center

5301 Bosque Blvd.

Waco, Texas 76710

Friday, February 11

Saturday, February 12

10am-6pm each day

The Waco-McLennan County Library will host the Gateway to Knowledge Traveling Exhibition from the Library of Congress on Friday & Saturday, February 11-12, at the West Waco Library & Genealogy Center, 5301 Bosque Blvd. The exhibit will be open each day from 10am-6pm.

The “Gateway to Knowledge” exhibition brings high-quality facsimiles of many of the Library’s top treasures and information about the millions of resources in the Library’s unparalleled collections. The exhibits feature facsimiles of such treasures as the 1507 Waldseemüller Map (the first document to use the word “America”); the 1455 Gutenberg Bible; the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Thomas Jefferson’s hand with edits by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams; the 1962 drawings for the comic book that introduced Spider-Man to the world; the handwritten manuscript to jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton’s “Frog-i-More Rag”; and Walt Whitman’s poem “Leaves of Grass.”

The exhibit includes programming especially for teachers and students and provides relevant and engaging learning experiences for lifelong learners. The exhibit truck is staffed and driven by two docents well-versed in the Library and its collections.

www.wacolibrary.org

The exhibit and its national tour are made possible by the support of the Rapoport Foundation. Waco philanthropists Bernard and Audre Rapoport are founding members of the James Madison Council, a Library of Congress private-sector advisory group. They arranged to have Waco be a stop on exhibit’s the sixty stop tour that began last Fall at the National Book Festival.

Teachers wishing to schedule a class visit should contact Abigail Van Gelder, tour docent and manager at: 734-320-3202 or e-mail: AbigailVG@gomra.com

GWCHE Public Library Liaision – Susan publiclibraryliaison@gwche.org

If you would like to go on a group field trip (this is not an official GWCHE field trip),

What is happening this Fall 2010 at Waco-McLennan County Library?  Click here Waco Library  to find out!

Public Library Happenings

Dear Gwche Friends,
Look what’s happening at the Waco McLennan County Library:   It’s time to claim your prizes!  Now, through August 15th, kids and teens who signed up for the summer reading program beginning June 1st, can pick up their prizes at the library where they signed up.  Hurry.  Part of your prize is a new book of your choice from selected books.  *Sign-up period is over, so they will not be accepting new sign-ups.   Check out this art exhibit at the RB Hoover:  Papel Picado Traditions.  The exhibit will be there from July 17 – July 31. A third location is to be announced.  

Homework Resources on the Web-The following websites are ones that the Librarians recommend.

50 States of the United States This site features all the help any student would need to write a state report.

 American Memory This Library of Congress site provides documents and historical materials that portray the people and events that have made our nation what it is today.

 Fact Monster A comprehensive reference site for kids, this site is fully searchable and offers information by subject.

Help from Math Nerds This site fields questions about elementary- through college-level math, providing students with guidance and suggestions for solving math problems and grasping concepts.

Homework Center The Homework Center contains sites and resources for K–12 homework subjects. These resources are reviewed and maintained by the Multnomah County Library.

Internet Public Library Youth Division This site, designed for children ages 4 to 11, includes an online story time, Dr. Internet, and a large Dewey Decimal Collection of sites.

Internet Public Library Teen Division The Teen Site from the IPL has resources for homework, poetry, graphic novels, “the procrastinator” and more…

Kids’ Castle The Smithsonian Institution’s site for kids offers an interactive look at the museum’s treasures.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) for Kids Find out how to get photos from space, see a launch, and more on this out-of-this-world site designed for kids.

Science Buddies (The Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation) This site features a huge menu of project ideas and a helpful wizard that will guide young researchers as they select their topics.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide This Internet Public Library site links kids to all kinds of science resources.

Try Science New York Hall of Science. The New York Hall of Science and other science centers, in partnership with IBM, invite visitors (students, teachers, and parents) to investigate and sample a range of online and offline activities at this address. 

More Homework Resources >From the Library

Free Homework Help at the Library

Basic help in Math & Reading is offered.  Please bring materials to work on.

East Waco Library – Mondays 4:30 – 6:00 pm Tuesdays: 3:30 – 5 pm

R.B. Hoover Library – Wednesdays 4:30 – 6:00 pm

Please phone 750-5974 for information about tutors at the other libraries.

Library Research Databases If you need to find magazine or newspaper articles, chapters from books, pictures, maps, biographies, literary criticism and a whole lot more, you can start by searching our homework databases, right here. You will need your Library Card number and PIN to log in from home. 
 

Thank You!

your GWCHE Public Library Liaision

Susan- publiclibraryliaison@gwche.org