Jobe Library is Going Digital!

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Our students and teachers are excited to integrate iPads into their daily learning and teaching activities. In order to support their information needs, Jobe Library has added eBooks, online encyclopedias and periodical databases.

While students are comfortable using search engines, like Google or Bing, eBooks and online encyclopedias are best- they are fast, high quality and reliable information sources. 

Check them out today by downloading the apps to your iPad or clicking the links below. 

MackinVia eBooks

Follett BryteWave eBooks
Gale Access My Library 

Remember to bookmark your library's official website, where you will find access to the online encyclopedia, and additional eBooks:

Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Infobase eBooks

GVRL eBooks

Email Mrs. Smith for passwords!

Learn How to Code

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. In the field of computer science, you can learn how computer works and how it thinks so you can teach it to do new things. Learning how to talk to the computer in it's language, and make it do what you want it to do, opens a door of infinite possibilities. By creating technology that can help communities live better lives, you can change the world.

One of the skills that computer scientists master is programming. Writing code is a form of programming. Coding is a fun way of writing commands to make things happen.

Try writing code now! Anybody can learn! 

Go to the website the Code.org or download the following FREE apps!

 

2015 Lone Star Reading List is Now Available

The Texas Library Association has release the list of the 2015 Lone Star Reading book winners.

You can read a summary of each winner at the Official Lone Star Reading List Website.

Check these books out at Jobe MS Library or your Mansfield Public Library.

Happy reading!

Mrs. Smith

Come to our Book Fair!

Celebrate reading during our fall Scholastic book fair!

November 14-20, 2014

Our Battle of the Books BOOKS are here!

The books on this year's Battle of the Books list have arrived and they are awesome reads! Many of our Maverick readers already have their favorites.

Check out the list of books below. And remember, The Battle of the Books Reading Club meets every Friday at 8:15 am in the library. Don't be left out!

Title	Author
Don’t Turn Around	Michelle Gagnon
The Eye of the Storm	Kate Messner
The False Prince	Jennifer Nielsen
The Final Four	Paul Volponi
Guitar Notes	Mary Amato
Insignia	S.J. Kincaid
The Last Dragonslayer	Jasper Fforde
One for the Murphy’s	Lynda Mullaly Hunt
The Raft	S.A. Bodeen
See You at Harry’s	Jo Knowles

Summer Reading is here!

Summer time is here! It is time to read what YOU want to read. 

Whether you read at home or on the go- make it fun! Pick out books purely for pleasure reading. 

Check out our summer reading website.

Use this website to connect with eBooks, Audiobooks, fun games and events around town!

Congratulations to our campus Battle of the Books Winners!

The following students will be representing our campus in this year’s Mansfield ISD Battle of the Books Competition on April 29 at TA Howard MS.

Please congratulate them and wish them luck on the District wide middle school competition.

8^th Graders:

Casey 

7^th Graders:

Khalid 

Helen

Rachel 

Carter

Noah