school library
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Testing the limits of my catalogue
I am concerned about the availability and accessibility of our catalogue. Our catalogue is completely online and in 2012 we moved from the Horizon software to Workflows Symphony software for our circulation. While there are certain advantages to our new software, the cataloguing is still primarily controlled and managed at the board level. Maybe they’re…
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Reaching out through the library
Our secondary school is one of 11 in our school board and one of 4 with a full-time teacher-librarian. Other than guidelines from our provincial school library association (OSLA) there are very few mandates for library. The community of Orangeville is about 30 000 people and while initially agricultural, it is now a commuter town…
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Reflection: on entering the library
E contacted me today thinking about career changes, or sidesteps moving from classroom teaching to some of those rarer positions in schools like teacher-librarianship, and asked what are the differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian. Moving into my fourth year in the library, I had a lot to say. Here’s my…
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
Book title: Divergent Author: Veronica Roth Bibliographic entry Roth, V. (2011). Divergent. Harper Collins. Description On Choosing Day, Triss chooses to leave her faction and join another where she is faced with challenges of physical and mental limits to be ranked amongst her peers. Her training is immediately put to use after graduation, as a conspiracy…
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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Book title: The Casual Vacancy Author: J.K. Rowling Bibliographic entry Rowling, J. K. (2012). The Casual Vacancy. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. Description It is a scathing examination of the minutiae of the town of Pagford where the characters are so caught up in their own petty desires that they cannot see the tragedy…
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The Cat’s Table by Michael Ondaatje
Book title: The Cat’s Table Author: Michael Ondaatje Bibliographic entry Ondaatje, M. (2011). The cat’s table. Random House Audio. Description An eleven-year old boy, Michael, boards a ship for a long voyage from Colombo to England. As young boys will do, he befriends 2 other boys and together they explore all the nooks and crannies of…
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