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The SAS Summer of 2022 Reading list has been posted! There are over 50 offerings from your teachers, advisors, coaches and mentors, each with a brief description of the book. All books include a link to Amazon for easy ordering. The choices are many and widely varied. Students are required to read two books from the list. At the top of the page you will see the required reading for all, a commencement speech from alumna Sarah Atwater Abbott '99 to the Class of 2011.
The Irene duPont Library has a site
license to both The New York Times
and The Washington Post newspapers. This allows all members
of the community with a St. Andrew's School email address to have their very own account and to have full access to both publications.
To sign up for a subscription to the NYT, click here. If you are unsure about signing up, check out our blog that goes into some detail about
your digital subscription to NYT.
What is book banning? According to the ALA (American Library Association), "book banning, a form of censorship, occurs when private individuals, government officials, or organizations remove books from libraries, school reading lists, or bookstore shelves because they object to their content, ideas or themes." The photo above shows a few of the more recent books that have been banned from schools and libraries.
For off-campus access of any subscription resource (i.e. paid-for databases), you'll be prompted to login first to OpenAthens. Your username is your "firstname.lastname" (for example john.smith); please contact us for the password, or if you have questions.
