The 2 Steves at CAC

We are gearing up for our second author visit of the year, with not one but two authors coming to CAC on February 16 to 18. The 2 Steves, as British authors Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore are known together, will be presenting to the elementary and middle school. The 2 Steves write high-interest, low readability books in a choose-your-own adventure format that is very popular among our upper elementary school students. I have the good fortune to host them in China, at my previous school, and the visit was a huge success with students, teachers and parents. They are dynamic and fun, and we're in for a great time!

Want to lunch with the authors? Students, keep logging your minutes for the Million Minutes of Reading challenge because the top 12 readers in the MM will be invited to lunch with them. Log your minutes with integrity!

Visit their website, http://the2steves.net 

During the authors visit, Diwan Bookstore will be here selling copies of their books for signing, from 3:15 to 3:45 each day. These books were available at the December book fair, so if anyone already purchased a book, bring it to be autographed!

I made a mistake at the book fair and didn't purchase print copies of the books for the library. We will be getting a full set soon. Luckily, we have 28 ebook titles on Overdrive, and we have spent these last two weeks demonstrating to grade 3 to 5 students how to access them. 

Overdrive is the web service that holds our ebook collection. To access our ebooks, patrons will need their CAC single-sign-on username and password. Each patron can check out 3 books at a time, and read them (or listen to them in the case of audiobooks) on up to 3 devices. 

Here's how I've been teaching the grades 3 to 5 to access our Overdrive titles. 

1. Log in to the library catalog, http://library.cacegypt.org

2. Choose your division's library.

3. Log in to the library catalog with your CAC single-sign-on or the Quick Login. 

4. Scroll down the home page to the Overdrive icon and click. 

5. Enter your CAC single-sign-on again when prompted. 

6. Browse the collection from the main page or search for specific authors. 

To see the 2 Steves books, enter Steve Barlow or Steve Skidmore in the search field. 

Since the 2 Steves books are so popular, you may need to place a hold on the titles you are interested in. As soon as you finish a book, please return it. Overdrive will return books on the expiration date on its own, but since so many of us have holds on the books, please return them "manually." Come see us at the library if you don't know how. 

Here are instructions on using Overdrive from the Overdrive company.   Please note that because of regional restrictions, we cannot purchase books to be read on a Kindle.