Welcome to Our Lady of Sorrows School Library!

Our school library is an inviting and positive place for students to come and develop a love of reading, as well as develop skills for identifying, locating and evaluating varied information sources.

Through a collaborative effort between the teacher-librarian and the classroom teachers, an effective school library program has been created to promote avid readers and information literate citizens. The program provides instruction in the areas of curriculum support, information literacy and literature appreciation.

 

Mrs. Bond (Teacher-Librarian) sees each grade twice over three days (Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays).

 Library Goals:

  • To promote reading - "reading for enjoyment" and "reading for information", thus increasing the students' success in all subject areas. 
  • To ensure that students and staff are effective users of information and ideas.
  • To empower students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
  • To collaborate with classroom teachers and specialists to design and implement lessons and units of instruction, and assess student learning and instructional effectiveness.
  • To provide the leadership and expertise necessary to ensure that the school library program is aligned with mission, goals, and objectives of the school and is an integral part of the learning/instructional program.

 

Mrs. Morena (Library Technician) works on Mondays and Wednesdays.

Library Management duties are accomplished on Mondays which include: Cataloguing and coding new books, preparing books for circulation, organizing and maintaining periodicals (magazines), updating databases (Library website, Circulation Reports and Year-end Inventory), keeping records of library users and sending out Overdue Book Notices. Furthermore, designing Bulletin Boards (Student Gift Boards - see PHOTOS) and posters for the school are also taken care of on these days.

On Wednesdays, students (Grades K, 4, 5, 6 and 7) visit the library for their weekly book exchange day where assisting students and staff with library resources is the main goal. Also, students enjoy the use of the computers to work on special classroom assignments. In addition, I assist teachers in gathering instructional materials and information for special projects.

Friday afternoons are book exchange days for Grades 1, 2 and 3 with our parent volunteers.

Please check which of these days your child visits the library and remind them to RETURN their books when they are due. The loan period is two weeks.

 

"The library is more than just books; it is a place where meaningful experiences can foster the love of literature and learning".

 

For this reason, various school-wide events and activities throughout the year help to achieve this:

  • Book Fair
  • Character Dress Up Day
  • Door Decorating Contest
  • Family Literacy Day
  • Readers Are Leaders

 

We look forward to working with your children again this year and watch them grow as readers!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at the school.

HAPPY READING!

Kindest regards,

Mrs. Lisa Bond & Mrs. Maria Morena    

MY LIBRARY
by Varda One

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks

It's a jet on which I soar
to lands that exist no more.

Or a key with which I find
answers to questions crowding my mind.

Building my habit of learning and growing,
asking and researching till I reach knowing.

Here, I've been a mermaid and an elf
I've even learned to be more myself.

I think that I shall never see
a place that's been more useful to me.

With encouraging kind friends with wit
Who tell me to dream big and never quit.

It's only a room with shelves and books,
but it's far more magical than it looks.