White Smith Memorial Library offers back to school help
By Debra M. Grayson White Smith Memorial Library Director

As summer winds down and many of us get ready to go back to school, I thought I'd take a few moments to mention some of the ways we help students, teachers and parents.

For students, the public library is the place to go for homework, especially papers and reports. We are open five days (42 hours) a week, including Mondays and Thursdays until 6 p.m.

We offer more than 21,000 books and magazines as well as computers for Internet research, word processing, spreadsheets and Powerpoint presentations.

If you contact us by phone to place items on hold, we can hold them up to three days, we'll pull them from the shelf and have them waiting for you at the circulation desk. If they are currently checked out, you can place items on reserve and we will call you as they come in. Many students aren't aware that homework and studying are skills that can be learned, not talents that you are born with. We have some books that may help. Here are just a few:

How To Study by Ron Fry Homework Without Tears by Lee Canter

Scholastic Explains Writing Homework by Scholastic

The Everything Guide to Writing Research Papers by Cathy Spalding

For teachers:

Teaching With Love & Logic by Jim Fay

The Colors of Learning: Integrating the Visual Arts Into The Early Childhood Curriculum by Rosemary Althouse

Discipline In The Secondary Classroom by Randall S. Sprick, Ph.D

And last but definitely not least, here are just a few of our books for parents:

The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success In School and Life by Michael Thomson

Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Marshall P. Duke

Also, don't forget about Alabama's Free Live Online Homework Help Service, homeworkalabama. org.

This service offers free homework help online from subject specialists, available everyday from 3 p.m. until midnight.

They offer free tutoring in math, science, social studies and English in grades 4-12 and college introduction.

Come by and see us soon.

Shelia Finch is our public relations coordinator, Deidretta "Dee" Bates-Jones, technology coordinator and Nell Dunn, librarian assistant.

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