Bibliocycle

Are you an athlete who is looking for an edge when competing? Are you a coach who is looking for ways to guide your team in eating well? Even if you are not a competitive athlete, the consumption of high-quality food is inextricably linked to success in athletic (and academic) endeavors. Eating to optimize performance [...]

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Interim Academy Archivist Tim Sprattler recently traveled to the Pike School to participate in Pike’s Annual Celebration of Reading.  He chose a couple of cautionary tales to read to the fourth grade students, including Struwwelpeter,  which was translated from the German into English by Mark Twain.   All of the children enjoyed The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an [...]

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I know I have mentioned in previous posts the fact that working at a boarding school is not a one-hat job.  Yesterday, I took 18 members of the Andover debate team, the Philomathean Society, to Loomis Chafee for a multi-school tournament sponsored by the Debate Association of New England Independent Schools (DANEIS.)  The students in [...]

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According to “Reading on the Rise: A New Chapter in American Literacy,” reading by adults in the US has turned a corner after almost a quarter century of gradual decline.   Of course, from a librarian’s perspective, the bar was set very low.  To qualify as a “reader” you had to have read at least one [...]

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On October 28 a settlement was announced in the class-action copyright infringement suit brought against Google by the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. The settlement applies only to books published before January 5, 2009.  It has not yet been approved by the presiding judge in the US District Court in New York, [...]

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Every week day during my sabbatical, I spend several hours reading and writing about copyright issues as they affect the Academy.  But that isn’t the only reading I do.  I am a librarian, after all, and reading is one of my great pleasures.  So today, with the hurricane destruction in Haiti in the news, I [...]

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