FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

We will be welcoming a very special guest to our library on Monday February 15th at 2:00 p.m.

Mairuth Hodge Sarsfield was born in Montreal. She started her career as a journalist, working later as a research writer in Paris and as an on-camera host for CBC, CTV, TVO and PBS. Ms. Sarsfield was the Canadian Pavilion theme co-ordinator for Expo '70 in Japan. She was an information officer fot the Department of External Affairs, and an Associate Director with the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, developing the "For Every Child a Tree" campaign.

Mairuth was awarded the Chevalier a L'Ordre National du Quebec, for cultural creativity in 1985.

In 2005, her award winning book No Crystal Stair was on the Canada Reads Shortlist. A copy was purchased for our school library, five years ago.

She is listed in "Who's Who in Canada" and "Who's Who in Black Canada."

Now retired from public service, Mairuth is living on Vancouver Island, and working on two more books.

On February 15th, this amazing woman is coming to our school! She will be visiting during break and then speaking in the library during period 8.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Welcome back! Please remember to exchange your holiday reading books for something new this week. Everything borrowed in December is now due.  Thanks for sharing!




First web gem for January: Check out this link for amazing up-close virtual learning experiences.

LET US HELP YOU WITH WEB 2.0 @ YOUR LIBRARY

Web Gem for Dec 1— Students and teachers who want to use photo, music and video content from the web need to know how to find CREATIVE COMMONS licensed work, marked by the creator for free sharing, remixing and/or commercial use.

Try using FlickrCC(http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/) to search Creative Commons photos on Flickr. This search tool puts the attribution information right up front with each photo AND it lets you search for quality images that you are legally entitled to use for creative and/or commercial work. Information is right there so it is easy to cite the source. If in doubt you can always contact the photographer from the link!
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Our library uses World Wide Web technology and Web design to enhance learning, creativity, communications, information sharing, and collaboration. Starting this month, we will be posting tips every week or two. By January, these will be moved to a new page that is being designed by a member of our school TECH TEAM from the Enrichment 9/10 class!

November in the OKM Library

This is a busy month for research projects in the OKM library!

Help is available! Please don't hesitate to ask.

Also this month, we have many new books arriving. Check out the lists of new books on our BOOKTALK web page. http://www3.okm.sd23.bc.ca/library/index-4.html