Sept. 2025 Spotlights

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See Wendy to plan orientations to interest your students in various book collections --including those related to your subject area -- and around co-planning/teaching parts of the inquiry and research process.   See Sook to sign out textbooks and help with computers, chromebooks and student passwords.

      What's New 

• Nine boxes of new books for fall:   subject-specific non-fiction related to marine biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, philosophy, psychology, myths & urban legends and fiction in all major genres -- selected to further students' curiosity about topics in various curricular areas.

• Weekly reading themes: displayed adjacent to the oak Alumni bookshelf and posted on library web site as a 1 1/2 minute video.  Please play at the beginning of Focus Block on Tuesdays if possible

• A new classics section -- classics from the 19th century and earlier, the 20th century, and children's?YA classics

• A re-organized non-fiction section that makes finding books on similar topics easier as well as shelf-reader labels which clearly identify the topic of books displayed on each non-fiction shelf 

• A beautiful -- and valuable --  textile mural donated by Vic High Alumni Carole Sabiston, whose murals hang in Munro's Bookstore

      What's Continuing

• Library Passes:  Please send students needing the library for any reason (research, printing, independent work, etc) with a library pass for all instructional blocks including Focus Block. The passes help us to help you keep students on track.  One sheet each of a group pass and individual class pass will be provided to all teachers in their office mailboxes.  Master copies for photocopying are posted on the bulletin board above the office/teacher prep room photocopier on the second floor;  use these to top up your supply.

• Same password to all pages beneath the Staff Resources menu on the library web site:  vhstaff1914

• CBC Curio, CBC Gem, APTN Lumi (Indigenous Ed resources) & all other audio visual resources from the 2024-25 school year (passwords are posted beneath the hyperlinked image to each resource

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•      passwords for off-site use of online resources include subscription databases in the Digital Resource Hub