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A great fit for the Indigenous Narratives focus in Grade 9 ELA. You can buy copies of all of these at the CBC Shop.

Great photos of school library displays - all grades

Greater Victoria Regional Library provocative and engaging Freedom to Read Week display.

Displays made by the library staff at NBCHS

Are some of your students finished with the Twilight series and suffering from withdrawal?  Try some of these great supernatural reads with a romantic twist.

We have the City of Gold series in our library but sent on the Tithe series to Jen at NBCHS. I read both of those series and felt the second one was better at a high school. Has anyone seen the graphic novel based on Twilight?

I embeded this video on the library pages at both schools and have recieved a variety of good comments.

""One reason we like Kindles better than using a book because we can change the font size. We like the largest font because it makes us read faster. Another nice thing is to use the dictionary when we don't know what a word means right away. Also, another feature is we like the fact we don't have to carry around alot of books because the Kindle has a variety of titles downloaded onto it.""

Are we ready for this... what is now available in our libraries??? "Once upon a time - in the 1990s- e-books for children came on CD-ROMs, and for digital wizardry, offered only mouse clicks and hidden pop-up-like animations. Not anymore. Touch-screens and app stores have given new tricks to old books, and the number of new titles is blossoming."

some of the pros and cons of the Kindle and a comparison with the iPad

Some really good tips and suggestions for weeding 

Stephen Krashen talks about poverty, reading and school libraries.

Google Wonder Wheel; Google Timeline; Google News Archive Search

a great article about YA literature and why we should be reading it.

some ways to organize books both in the classroom and in the library

keep this mind while planning activities in the library

a conservative organization dedicated to upholding and reaffirming marriage and family life, has called for a boycott of Scholastic following the company's decision to include Lauren Myracle's controversial Luv Ya Bunches (Abrams/Amulet, 2009) in its spring 2010 middle school book fairs.

the document that will be updated and used to develop cataloging standards for Saskatchewan and Manitoba - Fall 2010

From accounts of civil rights heroes, to harrowing (and hopeful) stories about contemporary teenagers, to picture books that perfectly capture friendship, curiosity, or flights of fancy, 2009 held a treasure trove of wonderful reading for children of all ages and interests. Narrowing them down to just 30 titles wasn't an easy task, but we believe the following books stand out for their remarkable writing, indelible characters, and arresting artwork.

An interesting take on weeding.... I've discovered that, whether our expertise is paleontology or board books, most of what holds us back from weeding is psychological. I'm reminded of that first step in most recovery programs: "We admitted we were powerless over [blank]-that our lives had become unmanageable." So, here's a program for people whose collections have become unmanageable-and it's only eight steps.

Collection mapping is the process of examining the quantity and quality of your collection and identifying its strengths and weaknesses.