Christmas Storytelling by the Fire

We had a wonderful time listening to great Christmas stories last night.  Check out some of our pictures!

Christmas is Coming

And we're all decked out in the library!

Check out our awesome book tree:

  

Special thanks to Robin, Caitlin and Mrs. Morrison for their help!

Library Renovation Updates!

Library Renovation Update

By Caitlyn Morris ‘14

Chatham Hall’s latest and exciting endeavor has officially been put into motion: a completely revamped library! Last year, a group of faculty met to discuss changing the library tin a way that would integrate technology effectively, promote Chatham Hall’s sense of community by incorporating collaborative study, but not lose the library “feel”. At one of the meetings, three students volunteered their ideas to the discussion. With simply a blueprint and some plastic, color-coded chips, the students and the faculty worked together to restructure how the library would function, allowing for group study areas, quiet study areas, places for books and computers, and a small café to top it off. Once the meeting was over Dr. Spearman immediately went to work to find books that hadn’t been checked out in years, piled them up, and sold them to the Chatham Hall community. Meanwhile, the faculty involved were picking out versatile furniture to allow for dynamic study spaces such as “potato-chip chairs” and movable white boards.

So much has already changed in the library: the Rector’s Room has been turned into the Pub room for Columns and into the design lab, empty bookshelves have been moved out and replaced with desks and chairs, and our Young Adult reading section is growing as more and more students offer suggestions to Ms. Stenzel and recommend books to their fellow classmates. The atmosphere in the library has also somehow changed. Instead of a constantly quiet place of individual study, it has now become a more open place for students to work together to learn more effectively. This is an exciting new improvement that will go through changes in phases and will finally embody what Chatham Hall is all about: learning together as a close-knit community.

Schuyler's Favorite Things!

Schuyler shares her Top 10 Books and Movies


Check some of them out from the library today!

Library Crafts from 50's Books

Come to the Library, Monday November 5th to make your own bracelets and nail polish with 50's books and listen to 50's music!  The craft station will be open 8:30am-3:30pm and again after Seated Dinner until Study Hall.

Mummy Run!

Library Updates (and what students are saying!)

 A Wordle of the comments on the new Library Design Boards

What's changed so far and what's coming next

What's Happening in the Library: October Edition

Halloween Contest Starts Oct. 11th!

Enter the library's Halloween Contest!  Match the first lines to their book counterpart.  Entries with 100% will be entered into a drawing for the Halloween candy bucket!

Library Renovation Drawings Have Arrived!

Come to the library to share your thoughts and comments via Post-It on the new library drawings/floorplans.  Make your opinions known and help us see whether we are headed in the right direction!

60's Night!

Join us for another trip back in time in the library.  As always, snacks, music and free 60's books will be provided!

70's Night Success!

Everyone had a great time at 70's Night!

September Statistics

70's Night in the Library!

If you didn't make it to 80's Night, you'll definitely want to plan on coming to 70's Night.  It's going to be totally groovy!

80's Night Rocked!

80's Night in the Library!

This is the first in a series of fun evening events in the library after dinner and before study hall.  Check back next week for the next event!

YA Contest Winners

Congratulations to Ashley and Michelle, our two lucky library contest winners!

Ashley chose Alice in the Country of Hearts as her favorite YA book.  You can read more about it here!

Michelle chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favorite YA book.  You can read more about it here!

Recent Purchases!

New books/DVD's have arrived in the library! Come check them out!

	The Penguin atlas of women in the world          Call #: 305.42 S438 Seager, Joni.   Published 2009	In
	Behind the beautiful forevers          Call #: 305.5 B724 Boo, Katherine.   Published 2012	Out
	We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda          Call #: 364.15 G714 Gourevitch, Philip, 1961-   Published 1998	In
	The photographer          Call #: 741.5 G944 Guibert, Emmanuel.   Published 2009	Out
	Habibi          Call #: 741.5 T468 Thompson, Craig, 1975-   Published 2011	Out
	Forget sorrow : an ancestral tale          Call #: 741.5 Y221 Yang, Belle.   Published 2011	Out
	All points North          Call #: 808 A732 Armitage, Simon, 1963-   Published 1998	In
	The art of the short story          Call #: 808.83 G494 [edited by] Dana Gioia ; R.S. Gwynn.   Published 2006	In
	At the drive-in volcano : poems          Call #: 811.6 N575 Nezhukumatathil, Aimee.   Published 2007	In
	Animal farm          Call #: 813.54 produced in association with TNT ; produced by Greg Smith ; directed by John Stephenson ; screenplay by Alan James and Martyn Burke.   Published 1999	In
	The African diaspora : a history through culture          Call #: 909.04 M283 Manning, Patrick, 1941- Columbia studies in international and global history   Published 2009	In
	Century of genocide : critical essays and eyewitness accounts          Call #: 909.82 T719 edited by Samuel Totten and William S. Parsons.   Published 2009	In
	Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China          Call #: 951.05 P786 Pomfret, John.   Published 2006	Out
	Not the Israel my parents promised me          Call #: 956.94 P379 Pekar, Harvey.   Published 2012	Out
	Africans : the history of a continent          Call #: 960 I29 Iliffe, John. African studies ; 108   Published 2007	In
	The burden of memory, the muse of forgiveness          Call #: 960.3 S731 Soyinka, Wole. W.E.B. Du Bois Institute   Published 1999	In
	Darfur diaries : stories of survival          Call #: 962.704 M349 Marlowe, Jen.   Published 2006	In
	A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier          Call #: 966.404 Beah, Ishmael, 1980-   Published 2007	In
	King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa          Call #: 967.5 H685 Hochschild, Adam.   Published 1999	In
	Dancing in the glory of monsters : the collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa          Call #: 967.5 S799 Stearns, Jason K.   Published 2011	In
	Shake hands with the devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda          Call #: 967.571 D144 Dallaire, Roméo.   Published 2005	In
	Diamonds, gold, and war : the British, the Boers, and the making of South Africa          Call #: 968.94 M559 Meredith, Martin.   Published 2007	In
	Vietnamerica : a family's journey          Call #: 973.04 T772 Tran, G. B. (Gia-Bao), 1976-   Published 2010	Out
	1776          Call #: DVD 791.43 Columbia Pictures ; produced by Jack L. Warner ; directed by Peter H. Hunt ; screenplay by Peter Stone.   Published 2002	In
	Big miracle          Call #: DVD 791.43 Universal Pictures presents ; an Anonymous Content, Working Title production ; directed by Ken Kwapis ; screenplay by Jack Amiel & Michael Begler ; pr   Published 2012	In
	Les misérables in concert, the 25th anniversay          Call #: DVD 792 M152 Cameron MacKintosh in association with Universal Pictures.   Published 2011	In
	Alice in Wonderland          Call #: DVD 812.54 written by Lewis Carroll ; directed by Kirk Browning ; produced by Ann Blumenthal ; based on the production by Eva Le Gallienne.   Published 2001	In
	Emma          Call #: DVD 812.55 British Broadcasting Corporation ; 2 Entertain.   Published 2010	In
	William Shakespeare's The merchant of Venice          Call #: DVD 812.55 Movision Entertainment & Arclight Films present in association with UK Film Council, Film Fund Luxembourg, Delux Productions S.A., Immagine Cinema/Dan   Published 2005	In
	The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher.          Call #: DVD 812.55 P535   Published 2005	In
	Jamaica Inn          Call #: DVD 813.54 Verity Films ; a Pommer-Laughton production ; produced by Erich Pommer ; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.   Published 1999	In
	Jane Eyre          Call #: DVD 813.54 Focus Features presents in association with BBC Films, a Ruby Films production ; produced by Alison Owen, Paul Trijbits ; screenplay by Moira Buffini Focus Features four-star collection.   Published 2011	In
	Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland          Call #: DVD 813.54 Gold Key Entertainment presents a Josef Shaftel production.   Published 2000	In
	The man who cried          Call #: DVD 813.54 Universal Pictures and Studiocanal ; a Working Title production in association with Adventure Pictures ; produced by Christopher Sheppard ; written an   Published 2001	In
	Alice in Wonderland          Call #: DVD 813.55 Walt Disney Pictures presents ; a Roth Films production, a Team Todd production, a Zanuck Company production, a film by Tim Burton ; screenplay by Lin   Published 2010	In
	Down with love          Call #: DVD 813.55 Fox 2000 Pictures and Regency Enterprises present in association with Mediastream III a Jinks/Cohen Company production ; produced by Bruce Cohen, Dan   Published 2003	In
	Hugo          Call #: DVD 813.55 Paramount Pictures and GK Films present ; a GK Films production ; an Infinitum Nihil production ; in association with Dean Street Productions, Future   Published 2012	Out
	The hunger games          Call #: DVD 813.55 directed by Gary Ross ; screenplay by Gary Ross and Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray ; produced by Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik ; a Lionsgate presentation ;   Published 2012	In
	Tinker tailor soldier spy          Call #: DVD 813.55 StudioCanal presents ; a Karla Films, Paradis Films, Kinowelt Filmproduction co-production ; with the participation of Canal+ and Cinecinema ; a Worki   Published 2012	In
	The vow          Call #: DVD 813.55 Screen Gems and Spyglass Entertainment present ; a Birnbaum, Barber production ; produced by Jonathan Glickman, Paul Taublieb, Gary Barber, Roger Birn   Published 2012	In
	The woman in black          Call #: DVD 813.55 CBS Films and Cross Creek Pictures present in association with Hammer and Alliance Films ; a Talisman production in association with Exclusive Media G   Published 2012	In
	The lucky one          Call #: DVD 813.55 H631 Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; Village Roadshow Pictures ; a Di Novi Pictures production ; produced by Denise Di Novi, Kevin McCormick ; screenplay   Published 2012	In
	Black history a retrospective          Call #: DVD 973 Cine-O-Matic, Inc.   Published 2009	In
	Vietnam nurses          Call #: DVD 973 with Dana Delany ; produced by Creative Street Entertainment ; executive producers, David H. Smith, Steven N. Katzenberger.   Published 2006	In
	Guitar notes          Call #: Fic A488 Amato, Mary.   Published 2012	In
	Tiger Lily          Call #: Fic A545 Anderson, Jodi Lynn.   Published 2012	In
	Shadow and bone          Call #: Fic B247 Bardugo, Leigh.   Published 2012	In
	Cross my heart and hope to spy          Call #: Fic C323 Carter, Ally.   Published 2008	In
	Don't judge a girl by her cover          Call #: Fic C323 Carter, Ally.   Published 2010	In
	I'd tell you I love you, but then I'd have to kill you          Call #: Fic C323 Carter, Ally.   Published 2007	In
	A hare in the elephant's trunk          Call #: Fic C652 Coates, Jan, 1960-   Published 2010	In
	The fault in our stars          Call #: Fic G795 Green, John, 1977-   Published 2012	Out
	In honor          Call #: Fic K581 Kirby, Jessi.   Published 2012	In
	In darkness          Call #: Fic L192 Lake, Nick.   Published 2012	In
	The disreputable history of Frankie Landau-Banks : a novel          Call #: Fic L816 Lockhart, E.   Published 2008	In
	Throne of glass          Call #: Fic M111 Maas, Sarah J.   Published 2012	In
	Second chance summer          Call #: Fic M434 Matson, Morgan.   Published 2012	In
	Cinder          Call #: Fic M612 Meyer, Marissa. Lunar chronicles ; bk. 1   Published 2012	In
	Shine          Call #: Fic M998 Myracle, Lauren, 1969-   Published 2011	In
	Fathomless          Call #: Fic P359 Pearce, Jackson.   Published 2012	In
	For darkness shows the stars          Call #: Fic P479 Peterfreund, Diana.   Published 2012	In
	Divergent          Call #: Fic R845 Roth, Veronica.   Published 2011	In
	Insurgent          Call #: Fic R845 Roth, Veronica.   Published 2012	In
	Between shades of gray          Call #: Fic S479 Sepetys, Ruta.   Published 2011	In
	Code name Verity          Call #: Fic W423 Wein, Elizabeth.   Published 2012	In
	Story of a girl : a novel          Call #: Fic Z38 Zarr, Sara.   Published 2007	In
	All I want is everything : a Gossip Girl novel          Call #: Fic Z661 Von Ziegesar, Cecily.   Published 2003	Out
	Because I'm worth it : a Gossip Girl novel          Call #: Fic Z661 Von Ziegesar, Cecily.   Published 2003	In
	Gossip girl : a novel          Call #: Fic Z661 Von Ziegesar, Cecily.   Published 2002	In
	You know you love me : a Gossip Girl novel          Call #: Fic Z661 Von Ziegesar, Cecily.   Published 2002	In
	You're the one that I want : a Gossip Girl novel          Call #: Fic Z661 Von Ziegesar, Cecily. Gossip girl   Published 2004	In