the library i am a shannon and i miss linda we're here to bring you all the information from our library right into your living room or at least our department yes the while i was going say the fun part of the library but off with library news around the globe with muslim that are muslim the like to share something with another library or a library here and some are else because i k we like to talk you know through the library love we do and i yeah i find all that exactly that element of surprise that keeps us going to go and yep keeps us fresh and going all right well this is really recent because this article appeared in the school library journal on the twenty fourth what's today the twenty fifth no twenty six ok yeah because it was just a couple days ago actually though it appeared in the journal on the twenty fourth the article was actually written on the twenty second it is the twent flooding in louisiana and the how they are stating it it says sadly this isn't a rehashing of katrina and rita to devastating storms that forever changed louisiana in two thousand and five it's the flood of two thousand and sixteen exactly eleven years later which hit early this month so it hit at the beginning of august just as kids were getting ready for the new school year the amount of water dropped on the state was three times that of katrina and how devastating and here's the here's the problem and this is why when i found it i decided to do this one instead of another one i had planned because it says with the news coverage of th this tragedy was somewhat overshadowed by news of the olympics in rio which is true the contentious race for the white house which is true and through all of this louisiana is suffering again and  have to say you know i news junky i love watching the news and was aware of this bot in the midst of everything that's going on it does get kind of lost in it and so i just felt like bringing this up because it was so tragic it was this all took place in baton rouge and lafayette at the worst possible time like i said school had just resumed when the rain began and the rivers rose homes started to flood and it it rained for like a couple days they get this oh my gosh if i can find it the amount of water that was dumped on them was so amazing that you're like that just sounded impossible but it's not but in the meantime find that but in the mean time what they're doing is a lot of the schools were flooded and libraries were flooded like in this one school that all the rooms were flooded so librarian at eastside elementary school in denham springs and she lives in baton rouge she reports that fifteen of the forty six schools in the district were flooded yeah that's a third and she said we started school on august fourth but have been out since the twelfth the rain is finally eased up and some districts remain closed indefinitely including one who superintendent is living in a shelter because these people not only were the schools their lives they've lost yeah the superintendents the teachers of their lose yeah they're losing everything they said the biggest challenge in reopening the schools is the fact that the teachers and the other essential personnel are themselves just placed  and this is where it comes into like that and it has a it has me really thinking because of all the books and stuff the libraries would lose said  she talks about her campus it didn't take on water at the at the one but the homes of the faculty staff and students were affected and now what they're dealing with is the back water flooding because there's no place for the rain to go so that is  you know coming in doing the damage the one school says a sustained damage which included their foreign language departments there to gyms their classrooms things attached to the building the school library was totally flooded with nearly two feet of water they said they don't know exactly the extent of the loss but the expert experts say that it will be worse than katrina and that was awful i saw  tree and i was there so i went through the aftermath i went yes i was trying to happen what was said twelve years ago there are eleven yeah so that was when i was a freshman in college and we went down on a mission trip months later and i know it's it's still horrible and we stayed at a local church there and they're just the stories that we heard and stuff and just driving around new orleans and louisiana and all that like we were and all those and so yeah and so they're saying it's worse than that and a lot of families i would sue me are still suffering and even though it was ten twelve years ago i mean there is a lot that need to be done it takes a long time to bounce and such horrific right everything and then possibly just to lose it all again i can't imagine you know you know i mean i know that some places in the country where you live tend to be more prone to thing whether it's tornado alley or whatever but you still don't want to hear it you know i mean like not not that i don't want to hear it i don't want it to happen for them right you know i mean you know i just wish that that would be fine so i guess my thought was with this and this is just one more thing that i wanted to read is that there was a wing that they had just spruced up with pain wallboard board and everything outside this library the library was so covered and so destroyed and water it was also you ready for this was also overrun by hundreds of worms covering the carpets so now they're finding temporary locations to hold all their classes and they were talking about what a tough summer was and i can imagine and they said many of the schools are not equipped at the moment to receive donations of books they did mention  center truman early education center in lafayette is able you know they are able to receive donations of books and then you can make cash donations to the red cross the baton rouge area foundation or associated professional educators of louisiana and the reason i brought that up too is i was thinking you know with all of the books that we get all my gosh are we're so blessed to have so many wonderful our peter's township little libraries way of helping yeah i mean that's a very sad that's horrible horrible and we're here for each other yes ok so yeah it's not up for of news but i think it was definitely worth the yeah you know not only i mean where yes so we mentioned in our last episode our upcoming animal fair which is a huge thing that and and actually talking like you see on the news all those animals that keep getting rescued down there and trainers and vets and all kinds of all animal related organizations i brought buster here to talk about it so we will make sure of a nose and with that being said also we ask everybody if you can to bring an animal supply donation and we do pass it off then to our local humane society here in washington the washington area humane society will take that with them so if you're a bit of bring anything a toy food whatever you can bring that to the animal for that day as well and i'm glad you said that because after just having talked about you know donating books we are charitable to writing we are there for each other right and you know giving back with the animals but you know what i kept thinking to while you were doing your little dog i'm a dog owner and now there's me a little fire is going to be a different experience while two years ago as we talked about a couple years ago almost adopted animal our dog from there but then reality set in that you know with my kids we're transitioning into college and all of that and i knew i couldn't do it all by myself with all the hours that i work and stop and but now i have one again i do but i'm excited so now instead of gathering all those i would get all those little freebie things summer and that was a big no no grandma's hell yeah and i think maybe they broke of that habit because it would knock on wood they haven't gotten up on the fridge early so that's kind of nice yeah they have they do you know has like she likes to sleep right beside the couch between the couch  like little corner and so he likes to sleep right up in our bedroom by the door and i'm like whatever so they try to hang out there and then at night they sleep downstairs like they have their spot they have their crates and something going on there but yeah maybe night so they're doing great they're fine  that's good and that's a habit that i'm trying to weave said no on and on no on the furniture yeah and it's hard because you want them to just go you know come up and cuddle with yeah that was my lap dog but now we're on that we don't really even sit on the furniture because it was in the ground lucas anyways so there was just on the ground with us yeah so today it was funny because lucas was tall and like crawling around and then like and i'm like putting something up in his room and you know just lying there and  animal that's right now i have to find some sort of this is go over time i'm doing good for others your next topic is perfect yet is i can find a course came up with a little oh i think i think common oh i've got a funny story but that was just about putting you know like a piece of gum and something i have well i have to find it because i had this really see you know it's just like all these little it was a good you know it's kind of like going through my p want ready are you here's what we're going to do because this next one is a very happy one it's called international dot day and we celebrate it it's on september sixteenth dot that while i'm talking about it will get all decorated because what we're going to do is we'll have like fun stuff like you can come in and you write some happy things on a dot and we filled this thing on earth that went the whole yeah so we are going to celebrate doc day so you come and you write something special on a dog we hang it up we'll do all kinds of fun things i've ordered some really cool stickers for the day and they ordered m really cool dot de sure so you look great in your daughter in your dot de shirt sorry what do you think i like it i have these all over my house right now because i use these kind of labels to organize my boxes and i was moving so everything that went in one room had like an orange dot mary matalin the one the room had like a blue dot and so i'm already pretty dotted and i guess i'm that is yeah you could just stay like that day and and fit right in sure it looks good you know what though people would walk into the children's department and not blink an eye they would think nothing of us i don't know looking weird or having dots all over our bodies what creatures have dots on them what creatures have dots on them why you nice segue there that we have like we have our help in costume saw but i love this program it's very green it's very love it economical and a good way to reuse you know to kind of exchange your own hauling costumes because your segment you very good and old or you know in costume from years past and then you bring into the library on a thursday or friday and then i'll give you a ticket and then you come back on saturday and you can exchange or take it to get a new costumes that's great so you the kids love it because then they have tons of costumes to pick from and the parents love it because then they're not going out and spending one hundred dollars on health costs and my god wants and you know they're a great shape because you're wearing one right exactly so it's it's awesome so that will be  the official swap will be on october eighth or ninth grade eleven thirty but you do have to come thursday or friday prior which would be the sixth and seventh to exchange your old cost and yet to drop it off so that we can hang it display it and then you get your for different things too so this is a good way for them to get that yeah you know what i think it's a good challenge for yourself to live like go in and say you know i want to read all the award winners right you know so i don't know how many there are like what you're every year since the had balloons up for her had one hundred hundred to her but she's still a lot right and chicken yeah that's good good for her so we're going to it's going to be the one that we're going to start with now we had a date and time change this is going to actually be how usually it's the second saturday of the month but we're going to do this on september twenty fourth at ten a m because of all kinds of conflicts so we're going to do it then so i look forward to it i want everybody to come and read award winners with us i'm looking forward to it be a lot of fun i've ordered extra copies of  the ones that will be reading throughout the fall and it looks like a you know i know it's tough like for a book group when you're in school and everything but also a are definite a back you can like it you can share it you can let you know what i do ask questions i'll post sometimes videos or book trailers and you can watch that are connected to the book throughout the entire month of the we talked about it so this in august we've been talking a whole thing black and white and it's all black and white yeah this is a very popular graphic novel for teens and in tweens as well so whoever wants to read it can it's juicy spooky and hilarious and page  turning and it is about says of all things on expected to find at the bottom of an old well a new friend wasn't one of them especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century ok calling down a well is that enough but on is normal life might actually be worse she's embarrassed by her family self conscious about her body interest pretty much given up on fitting in at school a new friend even a dead one is just what she needs but anya is new b f s isn't kidding about the river part who says she falls into this well who there she is that means she's not going to get out of there i don't know i like that and  this is something funny charlie bumpers versus the teacher of the year now this is the first charlie brown first book a want to say there are four out now and it's just when i was looking into this and reading this and reading about the author it was like lightning bolt went off i all the sudden realized that the author of this book bill harley is the guy that we have on many of the children c d s that bill harley that does children's songs and i know he wrote these books oh so cool as a songwriter and you know has very i was x and it's funny because we have so many and i was kind of digging for one to bring in and i couldn't find one in which is good but he writes a lot of children's songs and the bass just absolutely look adorable charlie bumpers worth it it just sounds like this is a kid that gets goes through a lot of adventures you know it does yep look at that grammy award winning yeah bill harley was so funny so charlie buffer's worst fear is confirmed that he has the i love this the strictest teacher in the school for fourth grade good reading before you go back this yeah right it doesn't matter that she's been named teacher of the year he still afraid of her after a certain how a incident last year don't ask he's convinced that mrs burke hates him so up until now he's been able to wriggle out of messes he gets himself into but how will he survive a whole year under a teacher who is just waiting for him to make another stupid mistake it just sounds adorable it does and our guys would like that too i think the guys would really like this when i was looking at it i just love the name like the the names of the chapters disaster boy what a bozo the good sneakers the hazards of toilet paper you know it's just too yeah an adorable series and i have to say that i  was having flashbacks about it you know every you know certain teachers you know in the yeah you're afraid of are there was one in particular was afraid of and you never ago the crossover came out which was a book one the newbery years of time either way winners but was nice because it was also it was a juvenile the more so teen book and it is written all in prose yeah and so now the same author has come out with a bulked and it crossover had a kind of a basketball theme this one has kind of a soccer theme fun it's about the star of the soccer team but the whole thing is written in inverse so it's pretty quick to read but it also gives kids that exposure to poetry yeah and you can see there's like one the school where the words around this are so i do this is brand new i recommend a book