September Spotlights 2024

 

Library Expectations – please review with your students

All students who are not booked into the library with their class must provide a class pass that identifies their learning purpose/activity.  Individual and group class passes are hard copy only;   starter set has been provided to all teachers in office mailboxes. Students without class passes will not be allowed into the library during instructional blocks.

Copies of individual and group passes to photocopying are posted in the Staff Google Classroom. Ensure that you have passes available for your TOC.

Phones must be stored in the library’s phone hotels during Blocks A-D if they are not left in a locked classroom.  Phones must be put away during non-instructional time

 Food and drinks without a lid are not permitted in the library.

 Teacher booking of library/teacher-librarian

Please book the library through Wendy via email for any class use: ex. a research/information literacy lesson, choosing a book for silent reading, using the expanded reading area for silent reading.  You will receive a calendar invite to show confirmation of booking.

The library space is reserved for instructional use and learning activities that utilize the library resources.  Guest speakers and occasional teacher meetings will be booked in the library classroom when not in use for instruction.

The library can accommodate two classes per block – the library classroom and the general area with tables. There are 16 desktop computers and 20 chromebooks.  A small set of chromebooks will be reserved for students who are enrolled in a Study Block.

*Chromebook cart is for use in the library only – no classroom circulation available.

 

Staff Resources/District and School Subscriptions

·        Access all Staff Tabs on the library website  https://vichighlibrary.sd61.bc.ca/ with the password vhstaff1914

Audio-Visual Resources for streaming are posted here:  off-site passwords are posted below the resources

CBC Curio is active from Sept. 2024 until the end of June 2025.

 

Digital Resource Hub Resources -- research

·     Are located beneath our Quick Links tab on the library web site.  They include databases for Sciences and Humanities as well as encyclopedias and ebooks.

 Are quality resource vetted for authority, accuracy (fact-checked), currency, balanced and broad perspectives

Off-site user names and passwords; information for sharing as a digital and/or hard copy with you students will be provided soon and posted in the Vic High Staff Google Classroom. 

 

Monthly and Weekly Reading Themes

 There will be three reading themes each month:

1.      1.   1-2 monthly featured themes focused around special days/months; this theme will be displayed on the 3-D triangular shelf at the entrance to the library.

 2.      2. A featured genre in small bookcase in the reading area

 3.       A weekly theme featuring ten titles –a mix of fiction and non-fiction; books are posted on the wall across from the circulation desk.  The theme is posted beneath Reading Themes/vents on the library web site’s home page as a short video of promo posters.  At the start of Focus Block on Tuesdays, please click the link and play the 1:12 promo.  This idea was proposed to and approved by Staff Committee late spring last year.

  Current and Upcoming Reading Themes                        

September

·         -Fall Picks/New books

·         -Truth and Reconciliation/Indigenous Issues

Featured Genre

·         -Suspense fiction (page turners with adventure, action, and conflict at their core)

Weekly Themes

·        - Sept. 3-6:  Goals and Good Habits

·         -Sept. 9-13:  Popular picks from previous grade 9s

·        - Sept. 16-20:  Start a series!

·         -Sept. 23-27:  200 pages or fewer

·        - Sept. 30-Oct. 4: Time Travel

Please feel free to propose a theme!

 

Thank you to everyone

for your patience and help last spring with the new library during my leaves of absence – and during any delays you might have experienced this year during start-up. 

Please be mindful of her hours/reduced time (-7 hours) this year as follows when planning for text sign out and sending students for help with passwords:

Monday - Thursday     8:45 - 2:45 (6 hours x 4 = 24 hours) 

                                       Break:  1:00-1:30

Friday                            8:45 -12:45 (4 hours )

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If I am not working with a class, I will be able to help with passwords or texts;  please check with me beforehand.