Switching to HCPSS-Wireless

Since we no longer have access to "RHHWireless" or "WirelessRHH," students and teachers will need to know how to switch their laptops and wireless devices to HCPSS-Wireless. This wifi network authenticates using your username and password: the same one you use to access school computers. If you are unable to connect, a technician will be available today, January 27th, in the Professional Development Center.

UPDATE FEB. 3: Network issues continue. If you have trouble connecting, there are a couple of things you can try.

• If you are prompted for a password but not a username, try telling your device to "Forget" the network and then re-creating it. If you need help doing this, come see us in the media center office.
• Students and staff (as well as community members) can connect to the HCPSS-Guest account by selecting it and opening up a web browser to register their email address, similar to what you'd do in a Starbucks or the public library.

More New DVDs!

Come take a look at some of the DVDs that were just added to our collection!

AV 201 INS In Search of Myths & Heroes

AV 305.896 SLA Slavery by Another Name

AV 323 HIS A History of Civil Rights in America (4 discs)

AV 323.1168 A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story

AV 362.1 RX RX for Survival: A Global Health Challenge

AV 362.1109747 FOR Forgotten Ellis Island

AV 514 FRA Fractals: Hunting the Hidden Dimension

AV 546 HUN Hunting the Elements

AV 551.21 DEA Deadliest Volcanoes

AV 576.8 WHA What Darwin Never Knew

AV 599.93 JOU Journey of Man: The Story of the Human Species

AV 612. 6 LIF Life’s Greatest Miracle

AV 612.8 SEC The Secret Life of the Brain

AV 616 CRA Cracking your Genetic Code

AV 616.85 DEP Depression: Out of the Shadows

AV 726.6 GOT Gothic Cathedrals: Notre Dame to the National Cathedral

AV 782.1 BRO B’WAY: Broadway - The American Musical (3discs)

AV 822.3 IN In Search of Shakespeare

AV 940.54 TOP Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II

AV 943.1 WAL The Wall: A World Divided

AV 973.3 LIB Liberty! : The American Revolution

AV 973.7 ASS The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

AV 973.7092 LEE Lee & Grant: Generals of the Civil War

AV 973.992092 CUB Cuban Missile Crisis: Three Men Go to War

AV 978 DUS The Dust Bowl: A Film By Ken Burns

AV 985 GHO Ghosts of Machu Picchu: Inside the Incan City in the Clouds

One Book, One River Hill

Join River Hill’s first ever Community Read. The students, teachers, staff and parents are coming together to read I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, the extraordinary story of the young girl who stood up to the Taliban for the right to an education. Please join us this year, as we read, reflect and discuss this book as a community.

If you have any questions about One Book One River Hill, please email Diane Curry at dmcurry@hcpss.org.

Loaner Laptops

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When a teacher laptop goes out on repair, it becomes very apparent how dependent we've become on technology to perform basic job functions. The media center was able to acquire two loaner laptops for just such a situation!

Please note that the loaners are best suited for use with Windows and are set up for printing to most, but not all, printers. Loaners are provided at media staff discretion based on hardware repairs of assigned laptop and are not generally available for student presentations or outside groups. VGA dongle and power adapter not included. 

New Biographies!

Come and check out the new biographies that were recently added to our collection for both staff and students to enjoy!

920 LAM Annie Sullivan and the Trails of Helen Keller

920 MIL Women of the Frontier

921 BYL Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods

921 DAL John Dalton and the Development of Atomic Theory

921 HAW Keeping Hope Alive One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed

921 HUR Chasing Perfect: The Will to Win in Basketball and Life

921 PAR 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music

921 RIV Diego Rivera: An Artist for the People

921 RUT Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of the Atomic Age

921 SAD Champion of Choice: the Life and Legacy of Women’s Advocate Nafis  Sadik

New DVDs!

Come take a look at some of our new DVDs.

AV 346.7303 BIG Big Boys Gone Bananas!

• "Dirty Tricks, Lawsuits, Manipulation, & the Price of Free Speech."

AV 569.9 CAV Secrets of the Dead: Caveman Cold Case

AV 621.389 SEC Secrets of the Dead: Bugging Hitler's Soldiers

AV 932 SEC Secrets of the Dead: Ultimate Tut

AV 940.53 DEF Defiant Requiem

• "Art was their weapon. Music, their resistance"

AV 940.53 NEV Never Forget To Lie

• "Children of the Holocaust Recount Extraordinary Stories of Survival."