New resource for YLN patrons! LearningExpress Library offers practice tests, exercises, skill-building courses, eBooks, and information you need to achieve the results you want—at school, at work, or in life. Looking to land a job? You’ll find an entire Learning Center dedicated to helping you get the one that’s right for you.

LearningExpress Library is an interactive online learning platform featuring over 770 practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and basic skills improvement (reading, writing, and math) for all ages. You’ll get immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and an individualized analysis of your results.

Thanks to the Yavapai County Free Library District for providing LearningExpress Library to all Yavapai County residents.

MANGO Languages
Mango is an online language-learning system that can help you learn languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian, Russian and more.

Make sure that your listening device is compatible with the software.

Download audiobooks with your YLN Card. The TCP Library has the software on the circulation desk so you can download it during 1st or 7th period. OverDrive Devices

Free audiobook downloads for classic literature. LibriVox Devices

This is a site where you have to pay to purchase audiobooks–if you can’t find what you’re looking for through the YLN.

Still can’t get the one you need? Email your Librarian for help today! (tcplibrarian@tricityprep.org)

October  2 – 18, 2011

Top 100 Banned Classics
Number of Challenges by Year, Reason, Initiator & Institution (1990 – 2009)

Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.  Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week.  BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings.  Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections.  Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.

Banned Books Week is sponsored by the American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; the American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores.  It is endorsed by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

In order to provide academic databases, OverDrive audiobooks/ebooks and other great services, Prescott Valley Public Library has adopted TCP patrons as their own. This means that instead of using TCP Student ID cards, every student who has a YLN card or those who will now receive one due to the registration forms filled out (again, thank you for your cooperation) will now have PVPL as their home library.

Books will still be couriered to TCP. Just now, the students will have access to these great databases using their PVPL/YLN cards. So, students, you must use your YLN card to access databases, check out books, or put books on hold.

Students who already have a card, just bring it to school so you can access all the fun.

Replacements will cost $.50 to pay for the plastic trees we have to melt down and create cards with. Please do not carelessly lose your library cards, wonderful students.

Students who don’t have it yet, you will receive yours in approximately one week.

Two new subject guides have been added for Speech and Anatomy & Physiology. Check out the links that your teachers have recommended to help you with your classes.

Special thanks to Mrs. Valentine for volunteering to pick up and drop off our transits! Because of her, all students and staff will be able to get their holds at least twice a week. If you are a parent who wants to help out,  please send an email to the TCP Librarian. The address is at 172 East Merritt Street, Suite E – Prescott, AZ  86301.

Volunteers! Don’t you worry–there will be a meeting coming up soon to let you know what you can do to help. It’ll be posted on here and mentioned during the afternoon announcements. If you’re really looking for something to do, come on by the library before or after school.