September Spotlights 2023 - Important Library Information for all staff

STAFF SUPPORTS & RESOURCES

• Supports provided by the teacher-librarian and library clerk are posted here.
• The library web site  contains many useful resources - a Digital Resource Hub of reliable resources, Inquiry Pathfinders for beginning research projects, Citation tools and much more !
• Staff have access to Special Subscriptions including CBC Curio (school subscription), as well as NFB (National Film Board) Campus, and Criterion Films (district-wide subscriptions).  
• Access the Special Subscriptions page and all menu links beneath Staff Resources with the password vhstaff1914
• Advantages of these resources:

1. vetted & curated for reliability, currency, age-appropriateness and curricular connections
2. time-saving -- include teacher guides/lesson plans
3. starter guides to support ease of use (these are posted in the Special Subscriptions page alongside the resources)
4. Other features: Check out Special features of NFB Campus,  Special features of CBC Curio
5. no need to worry about copyright; these resources are licensed for institutional use

DIGITAL RESOURCE HUB/DATABASE ACCESS

The Digital Resource Hub includes access to thousands of popular and academic sources inclusive of news, magazines, and journals suited to high school research for both Sciences and Humanities.

On site access is authenticated from school. Off site access requires a user name and password. Please share the student access document with your classes students (document can be downloaded and shared in your Google Classroom).

DRH Student Access

Staff Access is as follows: Staff passwords should not be shared with students.

DRC Staff Access

READING THEMES & RESOURCES

Science Literacy Week:  Sept. 18-24  (Theme is "E is for Energy")

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation - Sept. 30

NEW! INDIGENOUS LIBRARY 

As part of an ongoing effort to build our Indigenous resources to support curriculum and to decolonize the library, all of our resources authored by Indigenous writers, or in partnerships with Indigenous authored have been organized together using the Brian Deer Classification system. This system was developed by a Mohawk librarian in the 1970s and is in use at some post secondary institutions. It organizes knowledge based on Indigenous ways of knowing and will be a more visible and accessible collection to help Vic High teachers and students access Indigenous-authored resources.

The collection will be ready for Truth and Reconciliation Week - and formally celebrated with a ceremony.

INQUIRY-BASED RESEARCH

The library can support your classes engaged in research in one or all parts of the inquiry process, from narrowing a topic to an focused inquiry question through developing database search strategies, note-taking strategies and properly citing sources. Getting authentic work from student is especially challenging with Chat GPT, but the inquiry process will help to circumvent this challenge.