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October is Anti-Bullying Month

October is a very important time because it's National Anti-bullying month. Horton the Elephant wants to remind you to "Dare to Care". Because after all "A person's a person no matter how small!"

Stop by the children's desk at the library and we would be more than happy to show you books on the topic of bullying for children and for parents.

Here's a couple of website resources too:

 STOMP Out Bullying™  To encourage communities to work together to stop bullying and cyberbullying by increasing awareness of the prevalence and impact of bullying on all children of all ages.

Stop Bullying.gov Help stop bullying at school, online, and in the community.

Pacer.org National Bullying Prevention Center Make bullying prevention a movement that touches every community. Share information about the event through website updates; posts on social media channels; articles in newspapers, magazines, and online publications; or just connecting with someone in person.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) collection of resources for families, teens, educators, clinicians, mental health professionals, and law enforcement personnel on how to recognize, deal with, and prevent bullying

Tumblebook

You little one wants to play on the computer. You'd prefer they do something educational. You can both get what you want with the TumbleBook Library, an online interactive picture book collection for kids. Your library card gives you access to all of the great stories, games and activities for kids. You can choose read-along titles for beginning readers or story books that simply read aloud a picture book.  You can even create a playlist to make a mini-story time. I love that it includes non-fiction titles for those readers who love learning about "real" stuff. Leave a comment and let us know what you think.

Searching at Tigard

Did you know that if you want to search for a book specifically at the Tigard Library, there is a way to do that?

1. Go to the Washington County Cooperative Library Services site.
2. Click on Search in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Choose Advanced Search.
4. In the upper right-hand corner, you will see a drop-down menu labeled Switch to Another Branch. Select Tigard Library.
5. Do a Keyword or Advanced search.
6. Find the drop-down menu next to Limit By: and select Local Titles Only.

Your results will bring up only items owned by Tigard. You will still need to Check Availability to make sure the item is In at Tigard. Because you selected Tigard as your branch, Tigard items will be listed at the top.

State and Country Reports

You may be able to tell from the number of blog posts (3 so far, this will be the 4th!), but we librarians LOVE CultureGrams.

As state reports and country reports come up, CultureGrams is a must-use resource. You will need your library card number to log in. Click on States Edition or World Edition. The database has info on history, people, customs, life in general, geography, and government among many other topics. You can even print out the state or country flag and get recipes! It also tells you how to cite CultureGrams as a resource.

This is a MUST USE resource for state and country reports in addition to the books you can get from the library.