Library Media Center

How to find and access ebooks from the Farnsworth Library:

1. Go do our Destiny Library Catalog. (It's also in your Chromebook's "SASD bookmarks" folder, or you can find it on Farnsworth's website under "Library & Technology".)
2. In the upper right hand corner of the page with search box, click on Log in.

3. Login with your Destiny account information, which is the same as you'd use for Skyward.

• Username: graduation year + lastname + last 3 digits of lunch/ID number
• Password: the same as you use for Skyward (and probably for your Chromebook)
  

4. Choose Electronic Book (ebook) as material type, make sure your cursor/blinking line is in the FIND box and push the enter/return button. This will have a result list of all ebooks in the library, with many pages of results.

Ebooks and more from Mead Public Library

Mead Public Library also has ebooks and audiobooks. All Sheboygan Area School District students can access them with their Virtual Library Card through the Mead Public Library webpage: https://www.meadpl.org/vlc

Use Libby for ebooks and audiobooks. Try Hoopla for more ebooks and audiobooks, as well as movies, music TV shows, and comics! If you want to learn a new language, give Rosetta Stone a try.

When setting up accounts, use your school email address if needed. If you need to select a library, choose either Mead Public Library or Monarch Library System, depending on which is listed. When you are asked for a library card number, use 0035 followed by your 6-digit student ID (lunch number). Your password should be your 8-digit birthday (May 1, 2005 would be 05012005, for instance).

If you already made a Hoopla account last year during a class library visit, you'll need to use the login password you set up back then. If you have any trouble getting logged in, please call the Mead Library for help.

Our Makerspace

Our makerspace program has several parts. First, in the center of the library we have shelves of quick creative activities:

• Construction materials like K'nex, Legos, Strawbees, or Keva planks
• Papercraft materials like origami paper, cardstock, score-and-punch boards, and fancy scissors
• Robots like Sphero, Ozobot, Ollie, or Cozmo
• Our Magnetic Poetry board
• Google Cardboard 3D viewers (you'll need a cell phone)
• Creative puzzles and challenges like BrainString, Hook'em, and sliding puzzles
• A wide range of games, like Cranium, Anomia, Bonkers, Qbitz, and Blokus

We also have other materials which users need to check with a staff member in order to use. If you want to try these activities, don't be afraid to ask! These are ask-first activities because they are more intrusive (messy or noisy) or are fairly time-consuming, or take a little bit of an intro in order to do properly. These activities include:

• Music (drums, bells, xylophone, Otomatones, whistles, music box mechanisms)
• Video production (green screen and video camera, 360 camera)
• 3D production (the 3Doodler pen is pretty easy; the 3D printer takes more time and effort but can produce nicer stuff)
• Oculus Rift virtual reality system
• Circuits and electricity (LittleBits, SnapCircuits, Makey-Makey, Cubelets, electricity box)
• Advanced crafts (chainmail, cross-stitch, paracord creations, Kumihimo braids)

Makerspace Values

Exploration: Our goal is not that students learn to do everything well, but that they expand their horizons by trying out new things.

Community: Giving and accepting help is essential, and working together is encouraged. We aim for acceptance and appreciation for everyone.

Safety: Everyone who enters the makerspace has a responsibility to maintain safety and to respect the limits of their expertise.

Stewardship: Taking care of the makerspace and being frugal with materials is important. Users are expected to not just think about their own needs, but to plan so the needs of others can also be met.