Library Services

WELCOME TO OUR LIBRARY  2007 -2008

The role of the school library at General Vanier is to support teaching and learning goals that ensure students develop as information literate learners. The tools for realizing those goals are designed around active learning environments, access to information sources, and the use of inquiry-based teaching and learning, and collaborative teaching and learning.

All school staff, including the teacher-librarian and library assistant, work together as educational partners to support best practices of school library programs and services within the school learning environment

Library Staff:

The library is divided into the following main sections

• easy-reading area for the younger children
• Fiction titles, mainly in paperback form on rotating stands
• Non-fiction educational & leisure books
• Reference books ... encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs & dictionaries

Non-print materials include

• audio- visual equipment
• TV, VCR, DVD, projection machines, digital and video cameras
• computers with Internet access, printers and scanner.

Student Use

• may sign out up to three books at a time
• books are taken out for one six-day cycle period (Day 1 to Day 1 for example)
• if not returned on time, additional books cannot be taken out
• overdue notices sent to classroom teachers to hand out to students
• student responsibility for lost/damaged books