Vic High Library Spotlights: Start-Up Info & Welcome Back!

Welcome back! Wendy (teacher-librarian) and Sook (library clerk) look forward to supporting you and your students in the 2019-2020 school year.

Please subscribe to this blog to receive timely updates about reading themes, resources & research/inquiry. Monthly posts prior to staff meetings will be tagged "all staff"; department-specific news will be tagged by subject area between meetings.

You can find everything you need to know about the library through the library web site or simply by asking Wendy or Sook.

REMINDERS

The library web site is linked from our school site.
The library web site contains the Library Catalog -- the search tool for books and DVDs.
The password for EACH page within the Staff Resources menu is vhstaff1914
The password to each resource with the Digital Resource Hub off-site of the school is vichigh. Please share the Digital Resource Hub password with your students!
The library can support you in many ways; for a full list of supports provided by the teacher-librarian and the library clerk, check out this document.
The primary role of the teacher-librarian is to teach -- awareness of/appreciation of books/development of effective reading habits, and development of information skills/information literacy (finding, using, evaluating and presenting information) in relation to the guided inquiry process. Collaborative planning/teaching is always welcomed!
Staff are welcome to browse the DVD collection and Teacher Resource collection in the library office.
LUNCH IN THE LIBRARY (more social than professional!) will happen on Wednesday, Sept. 11. All staff are invited to enjoy food, conversation, and displays of some of the new books. You don't have to bring/do anything ! Please RSVP to Wendy by Monday, Sept. 9.

READING THEMES & EVENTS

all Sept, main display: trending titles, new releases, and VH student-recommended titles.
ongoing & NEW!: Sept-June: rotating genre-based display OF "Bookflix": 84 featured books representing 16 different genres
Top Shelf Book Club: first meeting is Tuesday Sept. 11 @lunch in the library
Science Literacy Week: Sept. 16-22 - display of new(er) books related to the sciences.
Orange Shirt Day: Sept. 30
Staff Picks: new titles representing recommendations of VH staff will be added to the library windows at the entrance. Please respond on this survey.

RESOURCE HIGHLIGHTS

Within the Staff Resources menu of the library web site, there are many resources with cross-curricular content. These include

First Peoples Principles of Learning.

Special Subscriptions including all of the following(passwords posted alongside hyperlinks to resource)

Criterion Pictures: an excellent sources of feature films. If you can't find the DVD in the library office, check out this resource!
Learn 360: a source of videos organized by curricular areas. **User name and password tba (district subscription)

Times Colonist digital: the online edition of our local newspaper
Curio.ca (CBC News, National Geographic Channel)
National Film Board of Canada (NFB): source of films and documentaries
Critical Thinking Consortium: a teacher resource for helping students develop inquiry-based skills

RESEARCH & INQUIRY SKILLS

The library carries several copies of Guided Inquiry Design (Kuththau, Maniotes, & Caspari) and Diving Into Inquiry (MacKenzie) in our teacher resource section.
Examples of library-supported inquiry-based lessons in different subject areas from the previous school year can be accessed from the Inquiry Pathfinders page.
There are several pages beneath the Research & Inquiry tab that are self-guided.

Citing Information page: contains Vic High's Academic Integrity Policy and tools for developing the Reference List
Choosing Images and Multimedia page: contains sources that carry images in the public domain/Creative Commons.

RANDOM

Article: "Reading Books Good for Your Health"
"Something like a book club . . .can significantly reduce your risk of death within the first six years of retirement."

Images of Interest: