SBHS Library Celebrates National Hispanic American Heritage Month

September 15 - October 15 2023

September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions and cultures of both Hispanic and Latino Americans you can click on this link: National Hispanic American Month or this link: Hispanic Heritage Month - National Archives

SBHS Library eBooks = 24/7 Summer Reading

If you are looking to do some after-hours or summertime reading, our Barlow Library has great eBooks available all-year-round! Through a grant from the Gresham Barlow Education Foundation, our SBHS Library has over 600 eBook titles available for student and staff use. Just use your school Google login and password to check out eBooks any time you want!


For more information on how to download these eBooks you can click on this link: Library eBooks

To go directly to our eBook resources or log-in to your Barlow eBook account click on this link: MackinVIA

Our eBooks are available for use 24/7, 365 days a year, so check one out today!

SBHS Library celebrates LGBTQ Pride Month

June 2023

SBHS Library celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May 2023

AP Test Prep Guidebooks and On-line Support

Spring 2023

Need help with studying for the upcoming AP tests? Our Barlow Library has test guidebooks for every AP course offered at Barlow. Why buy a guidebook when you can borrow one for free? Check out one of these test prep guides today!

If you need more help preparing for the upcoming AP tests, Learning Express Library has on-line AP test review guides and sample tests ready for your use. Just click on this link - AP test study guides and sample tests and then click on the "Prepare for College" button to find these resources. Are you a new user? You'll need to go to the Learning Express Library page, click on the Sign In/Register link and then the Register link to create your own account to start using this resource.  If you need help logging in, check out the Learning Express Library FAQ page for more information about log-ins and accounts. Learning Express Library is free to all Oregon students, so log on today for more AP help!

SBHS Library celebrates National Women's History Month

March 2023

SBHS Library celebrates National Music in Our Schools Month

March 2023

March is National Music in Our School's Month! To find out more about this official month-long celebration of music and music education in our nation's schools, you can click on this link: https://nafme.org/programs/miosm/

Want to write your own songs? Learn about KPop? Read a great music related novel?

Check out these great music books from our Library display today!

SBHS Library Celebrates African American History Month

February 2023

February is National African American History Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the history and contributions of African Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/

Great Books on Screen 2022 Contest Winners

December 14th, 2022

The winners of the Great Books on Screen 2022 contest have been chosen! From the many entries this year, these are the four lucky winners.

Raziya Anthony - Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

Sophia Brown - Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice by Adam Makos

Amber Saephan - The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Xavier Trevino - Wakanda Forever

Great Books on Screen 2022 Contest!

November-December 2022

To celebrate the 2022 big-screen and streaming adaptations of Along for the Ride, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice and The Summer I Turned Pretty, our Library will be holding a contest giveaway of the original books that these four productions are based on.

This year's four prizes include:

One copy of Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

One copy of the graphic novel Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

One copy of Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice by Adam Makos

One copy of The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

To enter the contest, you just need to checkout any print book or magazine from our Library during November/early December. Each time you checkout items from our Library, you’ll get a chance to fill out an entry ticket for the contest. The official drawing for the prizes will be held December 14th, so get down to our Library and checkout a great book today!

SBHS Library celebrates Veterans Day

November 2022

During the month of November, the Barlow Library recognizes our staff and their family members who have served in the United States Armed Forces with a Veterans Day display. Come by the library to see the contributions of some of our SBHS staff or to check out a great military history title. Thank you to Mrs. Adams, Mr. Bailey, Ms. Bunnell, Ms. Duquette, Ms. Seibel and Ms. Spencer for participating in this year's celebration.

It's My Country Too: Women's Military Stories From the American Revolution to Afghanistan edited by Jerri Bell and Tracy Crow - This inspiring anthology is the first to convey the rich experiences and contributions of women in the American military in their own words - from the Revolutionary War to the present wars in the Middle East.

Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by J. Todd Moye - In this inspiring account of the Tuskegee Airmen - the country's first African American military pilots - historian J. Todd Moye captures the challenges and triumphs of these brave aviators in their own words, drawing on more than 800 interviews recorded for the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project. Denied the right to fully participate in the U.S. war effort alongside whites at the beginning of World War II, African Americans - spurred on by black newspapers and civil rights organizations - compelled the U.S. Army Air Force to open its training programs to black pilots, despite the objections of its top generals. Thousands of young men came from every part of the country to Tuskegee, Alabama, to enter the program. By the end of the war, Tuskegee Airfield had become a small city populated by black mechanics, parachute packers, doctors, and nurses. Together, they helped prove that racial segregation of the fighting forces was so inefficient as to be counterproductive to the nation's defense.

Patriots From the Barrio: The Story of Company E, 141st Infantry: The Only All Mexican American Army Unit in World War II by David Gutierrez - As a child, Dave Gutierrez hung on every word his father recalled about his cousin Ramon, "El Sancudo", and his service in World War II, where he earned a Silver Star, three Purple Hearts, and escaped from the Germans twice. Later, Dave decided to find out more about his father's cousin, and he discovered that Ramon Gutierrez was a member of Company E, 141st Infantry, a part of the 36th "Texas" Division that was comprised entirely of Mexican Americans - the only such unit in the entire U.S. Army.

War by Sebastian Junger - Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.

Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad by Robert Asahina - An excellent history that chronicles the Japanese American combat participation in World War II in the segregated US Army infantry units of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. In time these units merged and, exhibiting formidable mastery of infantry combat, compiled a combat record in Italy and France that it would be an understatement to call distinguished. 

Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng - A concise history of how a group of Navajo Indians were recruited by the United States Marines Corps to create and employ an unbreakable secret code on the battlefields of the Pacific during World War II. Based on their own Navajo language, this code frustrated every effort by the Japanese to break it and helped the United States to secure victory in the Pacific.

SBHS Library Celebrates National Native American Heritage Month

November 2022

November is National Native American Heritage Month! To find out more about this official month long celebration of the contributions of Native Americans to the development of our nation, you can click on this link: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/npscelebrates/native-american-heritage-month.htm

Banned Books Week

September 18 - September 24 2022

September 18 through September 24 is national Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of our freedom to read. Exercise your right to read by finding a great book today or pick up a Banned Books Week button at our Barlow Library! Check out the Banned Book Week website for related Zoom and virtual events with popular authors and reading activists.

Watch this video about the Ten Most Challenged Books of 2020 from the American Library Association.

Barlow CTE Display in Library

Spring 2022

Examples of some of the great work and accomplishments of the Barlow CTE (Career and Technical Education) programs were on display in the Library display case the Spring of 2022. Be inspired by the work of the students from Ms. Pate, Mr. Ingoglia, Mr. Holzbach, Ms. Lamoureux, Ms. Mann and Mr. Toth's classes! Also featured were informative SBHS Library books on careers in various CTE fields. See below for sample images of this display.

Ms. Wilczewski's Book Project

February 2022

Students from Ms. Wilczewski's classes shared their book project creations in our Barlow Library during the month of February 2022. See the attached photos to appreciate their creative projects!

 Lightbox Art in our Library

January 2022

Our Barlow Library has a new Bruin lightbox art piece on display! Created by our own principal, Mr. Schmidt and student Gavin Schmidt in January of 2022, this display is a permanent addition to our Library. See the picture below for a view of the box or swing by the Library to see it in action!

Ms. Wilczewski's Fahrenheit 451 Display

October 2021

 
If you haven't seen them yet, Ms. Wilczewski's English Language Arts students created some interesting and thought provoking displays that highlighted themes found in Ray Bradbury's landmark novel Fahrenheit 451. Check out the photos below to see their inventive creations!