These past two warmish days in London remind us that summer is just around the corner. Please mark your calendars with the following dates:
All library books are due no later than 28 May.
Summer checkout begins 3 June and runs through 12 June.
Also, don't forget to stop by if you need help downloading and using the app for Overdrive, our audio and ebook library, so you can check out books all summer long from anywhere in the world.
Author Michael Grant is visiting ASL on 23 April and speaking to sudents in grades 5 through 8. He's here to promote Light, his newest book in the Gone series.
Visit the author's website for more information. Click here.
Books will go on sale starting tomorrow in the Mellon Library. Light will be available for £12.99 in hardback. Other books in the series will be also be available in paperback for £7.99. The Children's Bookshop will have a table set up next week Monday and Tuesday as well. Books can be set aside for Grant to sign for those who are interested.
Author Liza Klaussmann will speak at the St. John's Wood Library from 5:30 - 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 11th December. Born in New York, Klaussmann now lives in Primrose Hill and is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Herman Melville.
Her first novel, Tigers in Red Weather, has already sold in a dozen languages. In it, Tiger House, newly inherited by the beguiling Nick, is where the beautiful and the damned have always come to summer in Martha’s Vineyard. World War II is just ending, and Nick’s husband is coming home. Everything is about to change. Tigers in Red Weather is a simmering novel of passion, betrayal and secret violence beneath a polished and fragile façade.
The event is free. Please ask the St. John's Wood library staff to reserve your copy of the book stjohnswoodlibrary@westminster.gov.uk.
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by Mrs. Karen Field
on Tuesday December 4, 2012 at 02:19PM
The American Memorial Collection (AMC) has started a program where you can help to support the ASL libraries when you purchase items through Amazon. It is very easy and costs you nothing! All you need to do is enter Amazon (either the US or UK sites) using our links below. When you make a purchase, a percentage of the total sales (all items are included, not just books) will be credited to the AMC account--the more items that are purchased, the more AMC earns! AMC will forward the earnings on to both libraries so the librarians can make purchases which are vital to maintaining their collections. Please create a bookmark so that every time you go to Amazon, you will go through the AMC link. These links are also on the AMC page on asl.org. Anyone can use these links, so please forward them to your family and friends and let them know that this an easy way they can help to support ASL! Questions to amc@asl.org. Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=amerschoinlon-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=19450 Amazon USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=amerimemorcol-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325
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by Mrs. Karen Field
on Monday September 17, 2012 at 09:11AM
You can find wonderful literary festivals all around England throughout the year, but here are a few of the more local options this fall.
The Blenheim Palace Literary Festival at Woodstock 2012
The Blenheim Palace Literary Festival gets underway this week, September 12-16 and features such speakers as poet Roger McGough Lord Ashdown, Geza Vermes and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Hannah Rothschild, and Liz Earle. For more information, see the festival website.
The Soho Literary Festival
The Soho Literary Festival will take place at the Soho Theatre from September 27-30. Speakers include: John Major, Michael Palin, Ruth Rendell, P D James, Michael Frayn, Kate Summerscale, Charlie Mortimer, and Fay Weldon to name a few. To see a complete listing, visit the festival website.
The London History Festival 2012
The London History Festival is scheduled from November 19-28 at the Kensington Central Library and Waterstone's Kensington. Speakers include Sam Willis, Keith Lowe, Leonie Frieda, Antony Beevor, Susan Ronald, Helen Rappaport, Kate Williams, Tom Holland, Hugh Thomson, Sonia Purnell, Paddy Ashdown, and Patrick Bishop. More information can be found on their website.
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by Mrs. Karen Field
on Tuesday September 11, 2012 at 11:55AM
Which? magazine was mentioned during Scoop and many of you have been interested in accessing the magazine from home. This publication can be very helpful as you look at purchasing the best goods and services for the best prices.
The user name and password are case sensitive and are as follows:
Username: asleagles
Password: AMERICANSCHO
Posted
by Mrs. Karen Field
on Friday September 7, 2012 at 01:58PM
All new and returning students, parents, facutly and staff should now have accounts in Overdrive, the Mellon Library's audio and ebook library. You will use your school user name and the last four digits on the back of your school ID as your pin. If you need help downloading the app or setting yourself up, please stop by the Mellon Library.
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by Mrs. Karen Field
on Friday September 7, 2012 at 12:54PM
We'd like to thank the AMC volunteers who work so tirelessly throughout the 2011-2012 school year to organize book donations for the Mellon Library. A special thanks to Co-chair & Treasurer Michelle Guralnick who has worked for many years with the AMC in leadership positions. We also owe a special thanks to Judith Morrissey, Sue Cielinski and Molly Ashford who worked on AMC for many years.
Co-chair Michelle Guralnick Melissa Janssen
Database Judith Morrissey
Publications Sue Cielinski
Webmaster Liz Bengis
Volunteer Organizer Molly Ashford
Committee Members Leslie Herron Anne Spar Marie Ware Monica Ruiz-Noriega Sara Carpenter Kim Kotov Rochelle Larson Karina Kalb
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by Mrs. Karen Field
on Friday September 7, 2012 at 12:42PM
Author Liza Klaussmann will speak at the St. John's Wood Library from 5:30 - 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 11th December. Born in New York, Klaussmann now lives in Primrose Hill and is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Herman Melville.
When the question, "What should I read next?" comes up in the Mellon Library, everyone knows that Librarian Joan Dyer-Westacott is the go-to person. 
The American Memorial Collection (AMC) has started a program where you can help to support the ASL libraries when you purchase items through Amazon. It is very easy and costs you nothing! All you need to do is enter Amazon (either the US or UK sites) using our links below. When you make a purchase, a percentage of the total sales (all items are included, not just books) will be credited to the AMC account--the more items that are purchased, the more AMC earns! AMC will forward the earnings on to both libraries so the librarians can make purchases which are vital to maintaining their collections. Please create a bookmark so that every time you go to Amazon, you will go through the AMC link. These links are also on the AMC page on asl.org. Anyone can use these links, so please forward them to your family and friends and let them know that this an easy way they can help to support ASL! Questions to amc@asl.org.
The Blenheim Palace Literary Festival gets underway this week, September 12-16 and features such speakers as poet Roger McGough Lord Ashdown, Geza Vermes and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Hannah Rothschild, and Liz Earle. For more information, see the festival 
All new and returning students, parents, facutly and staff should now have accounts in