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February/March Promotions!

 * **Tech Cartoon Needed -** Find a technology related cartoon in the newspaper or online and submit it to the library. We will post the cartoon on our "Technology...changing the World" display. Top 3 cartoons will win a prize. Submissions taken until March 31st.
 * **Michael Vey Barcode Lottery** - Checkout and read the newest Evans novel to be entered into a drawing to win an autographed poster! Winner picked March 31st!

[[image:thinkmedia/rivas.jpg width="160" height="210" align="left"]] **Congratulations to Raphael Rivas!**
Raphael is the Library Media Center 2011 Turkey Dinner Winner! Raphael read a library book during the month of November and became our winner!

Searching for Information?
Looking for information on a specific topic? Try one of the following to locate the information you need.
 * 1) Need information? Ask your Library Media Specialist, Rachel Murphy, either in person or through email! ramurphy@graniteschools.org
 * 2) [|Pioneer Library] Utah’s Online Library of electronic resources. It provides statewide access to newspaper articles, magazines, professional journals, encyclopedias, video, photographs, maps, charts, and graphics
 * 3) SweetSearch A Search Engine for Students. It searches only credible Web sites approved by Internet research experts.
 * 4) [|Creative Commons] Find copyright free images for your projects.
 * 5) [|Library of Congress] - Historical information and images.
 * 6) [|Your Dictionary.com]
 * 7) [|WolframAlpha] - the world knowledge computable. ([|Watch a video on how to use.])
 * 8) [|ThinkFinity]
 * 9) [|DogPile] - Dogpile fetches and ranks results from multiple search engines, letting you search for key words, pictures, audio, video, news, or even phone numbers.
 * 10) [|Answers.com] - Answers.com is your best source of information on everything — offering entries from the world's leading reference publications along with Q&A from our community.
 * 11) [|AltaVista] - Try their advanced search features.
 * 12) [|Encyclopedia of Life]
 * 13) [|Wikipedia.org] - The free encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world.
 * 14) [|Citation Machine] - A website to help you cite sources used in research.
 * 15) Ideas for being [|more persuasive] when writing a persuasive essay.
 * 16) Need to translate a website? [|Use Google Language Tool]

**MAY "AUTHOR ON SKYPE"****LOOK FOR HIS BOOK IN THE LIBRARY!**

Kelsey Timmerman, author of //"Where am I Wearing?" A Global Tour to the Countries, Factories, and People that Make Our Clothes.// Information can be found at: http://www.whereamiwearing.com. Ninety-seven percent of our clothes are made overseas. Yet globalization makes it difficult to know much about the origin of the products we buy. So journalist and blogger Kelsey Timmerman decided to visit each of the countries and factories where his five favorite items of clothing were made and meet the workers. In Bangladesh, he went undercover as an underwear buyer. In Cambodia, he learned the difference between those who wear Levi’s and those who make them. In China, he saw the costs of globalization and the dark side of the Chinese economic miracle. Where Am I Wearing? is an indispensable and unforgettable journey that bridges the gap between impersonal economic forces and the people most directly affected by them.Learn more about Skyping with an Author online.

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Teacher SRI Access: Teacher SRI Access Teacher Acuity Acceses: [|Teacher Acuity Access] Schedule: [|SRI:Acuity_MarchSchedule.pdf] Help Info on Acuity: http://thinkmedia.wikispaces.com/Acuity
 * STUDENT TEST 1- SRI: SRI Login**
 * STUDENT TEST 2 - ACUITY: Acuity Login**

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UEN - Utah's Education Network
media type="custom" key="11470390" UEN provides the leading student search engine Pioneer Library free to all Utah students. Visit PIONEER LIBRARY today! Pioneer Library is Utah’s Online Library of electronic resources. It provides access to newspaper articles, magazines, professional journals, encyclopedias, video, photographs, maps, charts, graphics & even more great tools for any project or research paper!

OVERDRIVE - Digital Books & Audiobooks
media type="custom" key="11470394" The Overdrive App now allows you to checkout books and audiobooks from the Kearns High Library. Books are yours for two weeks and are automatically removed after two weeks, so there is never a worry about overdue fines! View all of our videos on our very own iCougars YouTube Channel!

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