Andrew Smith at Galloway

It was a great thrill to welcome author Andrew Smith to Galloway this week. He spoke with our 10th and 11th graders about his writing career and his novels. Smith, a high school English teacher for 23 years, is on tour promoting The Alex Crow. He also talked to the students about his 2014 book Grasshopper Jungle, which is being made into a movie. Many students purchased autographed books. The Galloway library has copies of all of Smith's titles as well. Thanks to the Little Shop of Stories for sponsoring this visit.

Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers

The nominees for next year's Georgia Peach Book Award have now been announced. The committee met yesterday and released the titles. It was my third and final year serving on this committee, and as always, it was a great day of talking about books. Galloway has almost all of these in the library now, so feel free to come and get them. Take a closer look on our library Pinterest board.

Buddy Photos

Created with flickr slideshow.

Today Galloway's buddy groups took photos all over campus. Take a look at how much fun they had. They were able to take pictures in the following categories:

1. Show you and your buddies performing an amazing physical feat (sports or otherwise).
2. Best team selfie (includes all buddies in your group)
3. Oxymoron: do something in a place where you wouldn’t normally 
4. do it
5. Parkour: show off your parkour skills by jumping over an object in style
6. Get a photo with a Galloway faculty or staff member. Funniest photo wins.
7. Take a picture of your group doing something unusual in the library (EL library, Portal, or ML/UL Library)
8. Team up with another group to form a pyramid.
9. Stage a classic “That’s So Galloway” photograph that admission would love to use.
10. Read a book somewhere that no one has read before.

We have an app!

We are very excited to announce that The Galloway Library App is ready for use! It is a handy way to get directly to all of our digital resources, including the library catalog, databases, eBooks and audiobooks, NoodleTools, Research Guides and more.

At the bottom of the screen you can see the Twitter feeds for Early Learning and Middle/Upper Learning, our Pinterest page, and a gallery of photos.

In addition to our app, there are numerous other free apps that can help you with your research and reading. Use our app to locate all those handy apps you might find useful.

This app was developed and designed by Library Intern and Galloway Senior Jack Walz. Please CLICK HERE to download the app to your device.

Reading Bowl Teams Compete

The ML Team: Anna, Talia, Rachel, Ms. Kochel, Ethan, Emi,
Ms. Hunter, and Julia

On Saturday, January 24, Galloway's ML and UL Reading Bowl Teams competed in the Fulton County Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl Competition at Riverwood High School. ML was respresented by a team made up of four sixth graders and two eighth graders. The ML team won several rounds and took fifth place out of 14 teams.

The UL Team: Cameron, Sophia, Molly, John, and Jennifer

The UL team, consisting of five UL students, took fourth place in the high school division. All the team members read some new and interesting books and enjoyed spending the day with other students who love to read.

We are excited about our new carpet and paint, but also about our new media stations. We now have four TVs set up for screen sharing in the Library and Portal. Students can work in small groups and share the screens using AirPlay. Here you see Mr. Boswell's 6th graders being the first to try out our mobile media cart as they plan a group presentation about our library's databases.

Winter Break Makeover

The ML/UL library is getting new paint and carpet over the winter break. These are some of the colors you will see when we return in January. In order to get the job done, professional movers will be in the library starting on Dec. 12 moving computers, books, and shelves out of the carpeted areas of the library. Books will be unavailable starting Dec. 13, so stock up this week for the winter break. Students will still be able to walk through the library but most of the furniture will be gone. UL students can study for finals in The Portal, the ATL, and in the Chaddick Lobby. If you are interested in digital audiobooks or eBooks over the winter break, be sure to click here to learn about our FollettShelf and OverDrive collections.