What a year!

The library is silent, wrapped in plastic to protect it from dust and well-meaning janitors. It's having a well deserved rest and dreaming of the new books, new students, new activity it will have in the 2015-2016 school year.

Here's a quick calendar tour of the CAC ES library this year.

August - back to school

September - planting potatoes inspired by John Coy book

October - storyteller visit by Giles Abbot

November - Character Dress Up Day

December - Author visit by John Coy and PTO Book Fair

January - lots of classroom-library collaboration

February - harvest potatoes

March - New Book Open House

April - DEAR time assembly

May - used book sale

June - farewell to Mr. Ibrahim

And this is just one highlight per month! You can bet there was a lot more accomplished this year. We definitely deserve these summer vacations!

New blog for CAC ES library

Welcome to the CAC ES library blog. My goal for this blog is to communicate with the Cairo American College community and beyond.

We already have an active Facebook page - www.facebook.com/CACESlibrary - but that is sometimes limited, so this blog will allow us to give more detail about the many fascinating things that go on in the CAC ES library.

You might be thinking: "Wait a minute! Isn't it the end of the school year? Why start now?" Why not? is my answer.

Here are a few things you might find in this blog as I continue to post to it:

• news and information about things going on in the CAC ES library or at CAC in general
• book reviews
• invitations to events
• useful tips for readers
• news from the library world
• tutorials on information literacy and using the library
• photos of our library and our students
• reading recommendations

I hope you will consider subscribing to the blog to stay up-to-date on the ES library's happening, and especially that you will add your comments to bring the blog alive. 

Ahlan wa sahlan! Welcome!