Engelhard Family Library
Engelhard Family Library News
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E Books Have Arrived!
The Upper School Library is experimenting with electronic books this year. The current subscription includes 35,000 titles in every subject area. You can access these books through the Engelhard Library database page or via the library catalog in a standard book search. Contact Ms. Hines or Mr. Washington for more information.
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Young Adult Fiction
Check out the young adult fiction display. The library has several new arrivals this month.
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Welcome to the Engelhard Upper School Library. The goal of the library is to ensure that all students and staff have the skills and opportunity to access, read, and evaluate print and electronic materials.
As an integral part of the instructional program, the library is dedicated to providing the Potomac School community with the best possible resources and services. With over 9,000 titles, numerous online databases, 50 subscriptions to newspapers, magazines, and journals, the librarians play a critical role in supporting the school curriculum and advancing the use of technology in the classroom, while assisting students to become independent learners.
What's New
The Nine, By Jeffrey Toobin
It's not laws or constitutional theory that rule the High Court, argues this absorbing group profile, but quirky men and women guided by political intuition. New Yorker legal writer Toobin (The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson) surveys the Court from the Reagan administration onward, as the justices wrestled with abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty, gay rights and church-state separation. Despite a Court dominated by Republican appointees, Toobin paints not a conservative revolution but a period of intractable moderation. The real power, he argues, belonged to supreme swing-voter Sandra Day O'Connor, who decided important cases with what Toobin sees as an almost primal attunement to a middle-of-the-road public consensus. By contrast, he contends, conservative justices Rehnquist and Scalia ended up bitter old men, their rigorous constitutional doctrines made irrelevant by the moderates' compromises. The author deftly distills the issues and enlivens his narrative of the Court's internal wranglings with sharp thumbnail sketches (Anthony Kennedy the vain bloviator, David Souter the Thoreauvian ascetic) and editorials (inept and unsavory is his verdict on the Court's intervention in the 2000 election). His savvy account puts the supposedly cloistered Court right in the thick of American life. (Publishers Weekly )
Please visit our new acquisition page to see more.
Engelhard Book Wish List
The school's librarians maintain a "wish list" of books to add to the collections of all three libraries. Anyone can donate books from the wish list and the books are placed into circulation, with a dedication bookplate of the donor's choosing.
