Manitoba School Library Day at LM!

Way to go, LM students for your support and love of reading! On Monday, October 25th at 11:00am all students and schools in Manitoba were supporting our first province-wide DROP EVERYTHING AND READ! At 11:00am sharp, all students (no matter where they were in the school) were asked to READ for 20 minutes to show their support of school libraries and their passion for reading.

Here is a video of our students, deep in their books...

Where have I been? It's October already!

Ok...I don't know what to say here...it's almost the middle of October and I have just started blogging again for the 2010 school year. That's pretty sad!

What's my excuse? Well...I'm taking ANOTHER course this fall that has me knee deep in Children's Literature, so I've been reading, READING, READING!!! Don't get me wrong, I LOVE IT! But it does take time and actually pulls me away from writing and keeping up with my blogs and websites.

Today, I felt some compelling urge to say "Hello" to all our students and promise to make a better effort to keep my library blog more current.

I've been working at putting "Fun Sites of the Month" on the front of the Library webpage instead of inserting them in the blog (they are more visual and accessible).

On the flip side, we have been extra busy in the library again...starting up MYRCA club on Day 3's, training a whole new set of STUDENT LIBRARIANS (They are so awesome, dedicated and learning so much...along with being a super big help for the library! Books are getting on the shelves instead of sitting on carts, YEAH!!!).

We've also created a new section in the library called GRAPHIC NOVELS! These books have become more and more popular over the years and hard to find amongst the other novels. We made an "executive decision" to put them in an easily accessible and separate section for our GN fans. I hope you like it and discover this alternate mode of reading a novel. We have mysteries, science books and classics in comic book, graphic novel format...how cool is that! Come check one out!

October is NATIONAL LIBRARY MONTH! We have our middle years students promoting their favorite books through book trailers, book posters and book talks. Our grade 4 classes are making 2 different videos about the library to promote all the benefits a great school library can provide for its students. I hope to share them on our blog as soon as they are done!

Well...that's it for now! I will check in soon...

Mrs. Eby

(Teacher Librarian)