LIBRARY
This page contains information on Glenmore's library, including information on our collection and some of our newest materials, information on reading, literacy, author visits and internet training, and connections to our electronic catalog, online databases, World Book Online and the Encyclopedia of British Columbia.
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Online Library Search: Access Glenmore's Library catalog from the comfort of your home: in English or French.
Parent Borrowing: Parent borrowing is encouraged. Best time to borrow? Just before the stort of classes in the morning, or just at the end of the school day.
Accelerated Reader: Students, teachers and parents can access lists of Accelerated Reader titles in our library by reading level, author or title (all saved as pdfs). We have close to 6000 titles that are part of this reading program! Note: It's probably best not to print the lists. Each list is 139 pages long!
Author Visits: Kenneth Oppel will be the Central Okanagan Teacher Librarians' guest author for Education Week 2010. Oppel concentrates on fantasy (Sunwing, Darkwing, Firewing, Airborne, Skybreaker, Starclimber, etc.) and has won a Governor General Literary Award for his writing. Students should be in for a real treat. Details will unfold as his March visit neasr.
Robert Cahill will visit our school in February. Mr. Cahill lives six months of each year in Nunavut and then tours extensively in Canada and the United States talking about Nunavut and Inuit Culture, Global Warming and its impact on the North, and offering soapstone carving workshops. Mr. Cahill will visit Glenmore in Feburary of 2010. Stay t uned for details.
Reading and Success: Did you know that North American students K-12 read on average for just seven minutes a day? A recent study d the reading habits of over 650,000 students in North America and found that students can read. It's just that many cannot read well.
· According to Terrance Paul. author of Patterns of Student Reading Practice, the reason children aren’t reading well has nothing to do with how teachers teach the mechanics of reading. “Our teachers do a good job teaching students how to read. The problem is that students simply aren’t spending enough time practicing the reading skills they have learned.
· When ranked according to the amount of reading they do students in the top 5 percent read 144 times more than students in the bottom 5 percent.
The more a student reads, the better his/her chances of success. Since reading is a skill, the more you practice the skill the better you become.
Give your child a jump on their school years. Encourage reading at home. Model the habit so that students see that it is a valued skill. Studies show that it is particularly important for boys to see males who are readers. As boys get older you may experience more success encouraging them to read if you use nonfiction materials written at their level (dinosaurs, trucks, bugs, space, etc.) or sports novels (Matt Christopher, Bruce Brooks, Sigmund Brouwer, Roy MacGregor, Scott Young, etc.). Since language is very much a transferable skill it’s important for parents of immersion students to remember to encourage their children to read in English as well as French.
Transition Books: Do you have a child who is in the initial stages of reading indendently? If so, you may be interested in some of the library's beginning reader series. These are books with large print, controlled vocabulary and oodles of pictures. The books come in a variety of levels of reading difficulty to accommodate the stages of reading readiness of children aged 4-10. Our library stocks a number of the beginning readers series including: Puffin Easy-to-Read, Bank Street Ready-to-Read, A First Stepping Stone Book, An I Can Read Book, An Early I Can Read Book, Step into Reading, and Hello Reader!
For immersion students we have 100+ titles in the Je Peux Lire! and Alpha-Jeunes series. In addition, to make life easier for library staff, students and parents of immersion students in grades K-1 we have placed red dots on the spines of all the easiest French immersion books—books with 1-3 lines of print per page. K-1 students are encouraged to sign these books out on their book exchange days.
We also have leveled non-fiction readers in both English and French. These books cover a variety of topics from UFOs to climbing Mount Everest. They are a great way to interest students (particularly boys) in reading.
For students who are making the transition from easy reading books to early chapter books we have series such as: Bailey School Kids (Debbie Dadey), Magic Tree House (Mary Pope Osborne), Junie B. Jones (Barbara Park), Mikey Mite and Mooch titles (Gilles Gauthier), Maddie titles (Louise Leblanc), Secrets of Droon (Tony Abbott), Kids from Monkey Mountain (Ted Staunton). Geronimo Stilton (pen name), etc.
High Interest-Low Vocabulary Books: Our library has 150+ high interest-low vocabulary books. These books are perfect for both ESL students and intermediate level students who are having difficulties with reading. Interest levels: grades 4-8; independent reading levels: grades 1-5. Check our catalog (subject: ESL) or see Mr. Gillett or Mrs. Tetreau for help.
 Parent Reference Materials: Our library has a growing collection of parent reference materials (books, videos, DVDs), The materials cover a wide variety of topics, including: A.D.D., ADHD, AIDS, anger management, anxiety, anoroexia nervosa and bullimia, bossiness, bullying, cliques, conflict resolution, discipline, divorce, drugs, gender
research, giftedness, learning styles, listening skills, melded families, mother-daughter relationships, peer pressure, reading, right brain-left brain research, self-esteem, setting limits, sex and sexuality, shared parenting, surviving adolescence, video gaming (excessive), etc. A partial list follows. See Mr. Gillett or Mrs. Tetreau if interested in any of these titles:
· Converstations you need to have with your Child
· 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (book and video versions)
· 1-2-3 Magic: Managing Difficult Behavior in Children 2-12 (DVD)
· 1-2-3 Magic: Good Behavior, Independence and Self-Esteem (DVD)
· 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families (Stephen Covey)
· 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Kids
· 8th Habit, The: From Effectiveness to Greatness (Stephen Covey)
· 10 Converstations you need to have with your Children
· Adolescence: The Survival Guide for Parents and Teenagers
· AIDS and Youth
· All About Attention Deficit Disorder (DVD)
· Be your best Self (video—constructive assertive behavior)
· Boys and Girls Learn Differently: A Guide for Teachers and Parents
· Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to do the Right Thing
· The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander (Barbara Coloroso)
· Child’s Play: Rediscovering the Joy of Play in our Families and Communities (Silken Laumen)
· Cliques: 8 Steps to Help your Child Survive the Social Jungle
· Cliques, Phonies and other Baloney
· Do it my way (video—bossiness)
· Embrassing the Fear: Learning to Manage Anxiety & Panic Attacks
· Especially You (video—dealing with negative peer pressure)
· Even Hockey Players Read: Boys, Literacy and Learning
· Explosive Child, The
· Fighting Their Fears: Child and Youth Anxiety (DVD)
· Get off my Case (video—bullies and bullying)
· Gift of Reading, The (David Bouchard)
· Girls will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
· Go Go Goals! How to get There (video)
· Greatness Guide, The (Robin Sharma)
· Guiding the Gifted Child: A Practical Source for Parents and Teachers
· He said, She said (video—conflict resolution)
· Helping Boys Succeed in School: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers
· Hold on to your Kids: Why Parents need to matter more than Peers
· Home, where Reading and Writing Begins
· How to Raise Children's self-esteem
· How to Talk so Kids can Learn at Home and in School
· How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk
· I Never get Anything: How to Keep your Kids from Running your Life
· Info-Kids: How to use Nonfiction to turn Reluctant Readers into Enthusiastic Learners
· It’s a Girl Thing: How to Stay Healthy, Safe, and in Charge
· It’s so much Work to be your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities find Social Success
· Just Because it’s not Wrong doesn’t make it Right
· Kids and Drugs; Prevention Education for Parent Activity Book
· Kids are Worth It: Giving your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline (Barbara Coloroso)
· Left Out (video—excluding others)
· Letters to Judy: What Kids wish they could tell You (letters to popular children’s writer, Judy Blume)
· Literacy Begins at Birth
· Medications for ADHD: Yes or No? A Practical Guide (DVD)
· The Minds of Boys: Saving our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life
· Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child
· My so called Friends (video—conflict resolution)
· No can Do (video—peer pressure)
· No: Why Kids of all ages need to hear it and ways Parents can say It
· Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
· Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliches, Popularity, and Jealousy
· Omnipotent Child, The
· Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Gifted Children
· Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief, and Change
· Parenting Today (magazine)
· The Parents’ Book about Bullying: Changing the Course of your Child’s Life
· Parenting Through Crisis: Helping Kids in Time of Loss, Grief and Change
· Parents do Make a Difference: How to Raise Kids with Solid Character, Strong Minds, and Caring Hearts
· Positive Self-Talk for Children: Teaching Self-Esteem Through Affirmations—A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors
· PlayStation Nation
· Prevention of Child Abuse—Your Body Belongs to You (Parent/Teacher Training)
· Queen Bees and Wannabees: Helping your daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence
· Raise you Kids without Raising your Voice
· Raising Boys: Why Boys are Different—and how to help them Become Happy and Well Balanced Men
· Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
· Reading Begins at Home
· Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to our Children will Change their Lives Forever
· Reviving Olphelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
· Right-Brained Children: Unlocking the Potential of your ADD Child in a Left-Brained World
· Self-Esteem Revolutions in Children: Understanding and Managing the Critical Transitions in your Child’s Life
· Setting Limits with your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries
· The Seven Spiritual Laws for Parents (Deepak Chopra)
· SEX spelled out for Parents (video)
· Siblings with Rivalry: How to help Children live togther so you can Too
· Straight Facts about Drugs and Drug Abuse
· Supernanny: How to get the best from your Child
· Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share their Wisdom in Navigating the Tumultuous Teenage Years
· Surviving Your Adolescents (DVD-book package)
· Raising Boys: Why Boys are Different—and how to help them Become Happy and Well Balanced Men
· Taking Cystic Fibrosis to School (others topics covered in this series intended for children include: diabetes, cerebral palsy, seizure disorders, Tourette Syndrome, dyslexia, autism, allergies, food allergies, asthma, Down Syndrome, and A.D.D.)
· Teaching the Male Brain: How Boys Think, Feel, and Learn in School
· Television and Youth: 25 Years of Research and Controversies
· Understanding Anoroexia Nervosa and Bullimia
· What Stories does my Son Need? A Guide to Books and Movies that Build Character in Boys
· What's a Parent to do?: Proactive Parenting
· When Panic Attacks: The New, Drug-free Anixiety Thearapy that acan can Change you Life (audio CD)
· Why Boys don't talk and why it Matters
· Why do they Act that Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for your and your Teen
· Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers need to know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
· Winning at Parenting (video—Barbar Coloroso)
· Women Teaching Boys: Caring and Working in the Primary School
· The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of our Daughters
· You Bug Me (video—bothersome situations)
· Your Child’s Growing Mind: A Practical Guide to Brain Development and Learning from Birth to Adolescence
Pre-school Materials: Our library has acquired a wonderful collection of books suitable for the pre-school crowd. Many of the boooks concentrate on skills such as counting, colors, shapes, sounds, opposites, the alphabet, and new words. A number of the books have pop-outs, flip-flaps. sound bites, or portions that light up. Parents are encouraged to borrow any of these materials. See Mr. Gillett or Mrs. Tetreau if interested.
 Internet Training: All grade four students at Glenmore receive internet training through the library. Sessions start with a discussion of the "cans" and "can nots of internet use at Glenmore. Parents should be aware that all public schools in the province are connected to a "blocker" that stops students from (accidentally or inadvertanly) visiting sites that are inappropriate. Blockers are not one hundred percent infallible, so students are also
taught what to do should they inadvertently end up on an inappropriate site.
Students are taught that internet sites are simply electronic sources of information and entertainment, with pages stored here and there around the world, transferable over high speed cable lines or through the ether. We tell students that internet sites are very much an extension of the information provided through libraries. At the same time, because almost anyone can post materials to the internet, students are advised that not all such information is necessarily accurate. Students have to be looking for reputable sites.
Students at Glenmore are taught to log onto our system and are shown how to use search engines to find appropriate materials (including the use of operators to narrow searches: "+|-*,), how to transfer graphics and text materials from internet sites to common word processing packages; how to flow text around graphics, how to resize and replace font styles, and how to save materials onto their hard drive storage space. Immersion students are also shown how to translate English sites into French (albeit imperfect translations) and how to search for materials in French. All steps are modeled and then repeated by students. New terminology (browsers, search engines, URLs, bookmarks, etc.) is clarified.
Parents have asked about email accounts for their children with the school district. This is not something we are supplying at the moment, but rather something interested parents must set up on their own. MSN and ICQ (I seek you) are recommended options because they limit who your children are in contact with.
If you have questions/concerns regarding the internet use at the school, don't hesitate to contact Mr. Gillett (762-3209).
Online Databases: Glenmore students and staff have access to a variety of online databases through Ebscohost and Thompson Gale Online Information Services. Both companies maintain datanases which school sytems can access for a fee. The databases provided by these companies allow SD23 students
and staff to access full-text information and database service, including reference content, periodicals, journals, serials, newswires, photos, maps, flags, etc. In Glenmore's case the databases are particularly useful for upper intermediate students who are working on research projects.
Ebscohost.com provides students and staff with access to a variety of online databases, including:
· Newspaper Source: Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 30 U.S and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television and radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 U.S. regional newspapers. This database is updated daily.
· Professional Development Collection: Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports .Professional Development Collection is the most comprehensive collection of full text education journals in the world.
· Canadian Reference Centre: Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; full text biographies and an Image Collection. This database is updated on a daily basis.
· General Science Collection: This database offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the most popular science publications. Providing information on all aspects of the scientific world, the General Science Collection offers full text information dating back as far as 1992.
· Middle Search Plus: Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
· Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia: This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
· EBSCO Animals: Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
· Primary Search: Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
You can access Ebscohost.com at school at this URL: http://search.epnet.com. To access the databases at home, students/staff will need a User ID and a Password. See Mr. Gillett for these.
Thompson Gale Online Information Services is the same company that produces reference materials for high schools and institutions of higher learning. The Thompson Gale Online databases that we have access to include:
· CPI.Q (Canadian Periodicals): 1980 - Nov 2006. Use this database to find articles from a comprehensive list of Canadian and international journals, magazines, selected sections of the Globe and Mail, Canadian biographies, and other reference content from Gale Group, all with a Canadian focus.
· Biography Resource Center: NOVEMBER, 2006. This database combines award-winning biographies from respected Gale Group sources. Biography Resource Center also includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender, or combine criteria to create a highly-targeted custom search.
· Student Resource Center – Gold: A fully integrated database containing thousands of curriculum-targeted primary documents, biographies, topical essays, background information, critical analyses, full-text coverage of over 1,000 magazines, newspapers, over 20,000 photographs and illustrations, and more than 8 hours of audio and video clips. Includes Student Resource Center-Health
· Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials once were accessible only in the library, but now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if you use the database at different libraries (your school, your public library, or your office). ~
· Professional Collection: A custom selection of over 300 journals for professional educators.
· WEB FEET: WEB FEET is a comprehensive subject guide to the best free resources available on the Internet.
You can access Thompson Gale Online at school at this URL: http://infotrac.galegroup.com/default. To access the databases at home, students/staff will need a User ID and a
Password. See Mr. Gillett for these. ln a very real sense these databases extend the reach of our library and allow students and staff to be on the cutting edge of information technology and information literacy. See Mr. Gillett if you questions.
World Book Online: Glenmore students now have access to World Book Online from school or home. You can connect at www.worldbook.com. To access the databases at home, students/staff will a User ID and a Password. See Mr. Gillett for these.
Encyclopedia of British Columbia: Students can access the Encylopedia of British Columbia at fcp://@fc.sd23.bc.ca,%23840BC.asp To access the databases at home, students/staff will need a User ID and a Password. See Mr. Gillett for these.
Newspaper Headlines Around the World Click on the link that follows to check out the daily front pages of 651 newspapers from 65 countries! The pages are printable, the newspapers searchable at: http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash
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