All Night Read In

The 6th annual ML All Night Read In will be held on March 18-19. Galloway students in 6th-8th grades are invited to spend the night in the library doing a lot of reading plus many other fun activities. If you love to read, we guarantee you will have a good time. Registration begins on Friday, Feb. 26 at 8:45 in the ML commons and continues in the library until we are full. See Ms. Kochel if you need any further information. The official flyer and contract are on the library's website here.

Poetry Reading in UL

This Friday, February 12 at 8:30 a.m. there will be a poetry reading in the library sponsored by the UL Creative Writing Club. Come read a poem or just listen to others read. The Valentine's Day theme is very loose—any poems are welcome! As always, Nutella and croissants will be served.

Music Space

Some libraries have maker space, so why not music space? We now have a guitar in the library. It's available for anyone to play any time. Come relieve stress and play some tunes. (Just keep things at a reasonable noise level and don't disturb others.)

Upper Learning Students,

Here's your chance to win a brand new Kindle Fire just for reading a book during winter break! Here's all you need to do.

GET COZY Read a book! Find one at the library, check out a library Kindle, or get one from anywhere you like. Take a look at all of the great choices in the Galloway Library or try out our OverDrive ebooks. 

GET POSEY Take a selfie of you and the book and caption it. Post it to Twitter with the hashtag #readlax OR just email it to Ms. Kochel

GET CHOSEY The most creative photo/caption (as selected by a team of UL students) will earn the creator a new Kindle Fire. Yay!

The bottom line...we know you are busy and don't have a lot of time to read for fun, so we hope you will take time during this break to relax and read something for your own enjoyment. 

If you have any questions, just let me know. Happy reading!

READ Posters Going Up

This year's READ posters are going up today. They were created by the Unbound Book Club (5th-8th graders) and also by some Upper Learning students. Thank you to the library interns for their fabulous Photoshopping (Kat and Shawn) and also for exceptional height (John). Come to the library and see them all soon!

Hunger Games Reaping Friday

It's time for the annual reaping. Twelve tributes will be chosen to compete in the Hunger Games on Friday, November 20. The last tribute standing will win movie tickets to any movie of their choice. Put your name in the jar in the library and come to the courtyard on Friday at noon!

Reading Survey Results

The results from the Middle Learning Reading Survey are in! You can see them in this infographic that was made with Piktochart. The good news is that 75% of students said reading is important. The surprising news is that the majority of students would rather read a paper book than an eBook. And it's no surprise at all that the number one reason students don't read more is "too much homework." Thank you to ML students Emily, Mary, Simone, and Libby for your hard work on this project.