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Library Catalog

Summer Reading List 2013!
Download the pdf here.
Buy the books at the online bookstore!

Scan Jobs
Did you scan something with the library printer? Find it by clicking the link above, then click on Scan. 

New Books

Demon Fish: Travels Through the Hidden World of Sharks
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
The Drowned Cities
When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Science of Human Perfection: How Genes Became the Heart of American Medicine
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
China in Ten Words
Inside Inside
Shark: In Peril in the Sea




IN THE LIBRARY

The Herbst Library is open M-F from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. You can reach the librarian at: slevin@urbanschool.org



SARAH'S BLOG

RESEARCH AND WARGAMES
by Sarah Levin, Urban Librarian

This past weekend I was watching the 1983 movie WarGames, in which Matthew Broderick’s character, a high school hacker, nearly inadvertently starts World War III. In trying to hack into NORAD’s computer system, Broderick’s character must do some research. He heads to the library (yay!) and is shown....read more.


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