The Commons @ Elgin Park Library
September & October Report
Library Activity - September
- 47 classes booked into the Learning Commons do research, novel selection, and Grade 8 orientations
- Science 8 classes began their Science Fair projects with an introduction to the Research Process
- The Explorations program for Elgin Park's designated gifted students began with great enthusiasm.
- 16 students have joined our Advisory Team and work in the Learning Commons before school, at lunch and after school.
- There were 853 transactions in September. This includes all sign-outs, returns and renewals.
These titles are actively being promoted to students and we have multiple copies of each one to meet the popular demand. In order to vote for the best of the short listed titles, students must have read a minimum of 3 of the selected titles. Voting starts in May 2014.
National Playdough Day
Games Centre
Library Activity - October
- 54 classes booked into the Learning Commons to do research, use the computers,
- A grade 7 BASES student from Ocean Cliff has been visiting the Learning Commons weekly as part of her transition program.
- The Welcome Centre Reading Buddies program has started. A week long training session was held in October and weekly sessions will run until Winter Break.
- Explorations students have identified their project focus and are actively working towards their goals. A wide range of interests are being fostered. Some of the inquiry projects are: generating renewable electricity by harnessing the water discharged in the downspouts of our homes; studying the question "what entertains us" and creating a video series; writing, directing, starring in, and producing a movie; learning the piano; digital music mixing and live DJ'ing; and learning American sign language.
- The Counselling Department has been hosting presentations by post-secondary institutions in the morning and at lunch. So far we have had visits from: SWAP, University of Waterloo Math Department, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and Western University. More presentations are planned for November.
- The Learning Commons staff and Library Science students researched and produced a 20 Years in Review video series in celebration of Elgin Park's 20 Year Anniversary.
- There were 424 transactions in October. This includes all sign-outs, returns and renewals.
- Currently there are 528 items on loan. Of those 355 are overdue. We are still finding it a challenge to get students to return their materials on time.
Collection Development
- 143 new titles
- 6 iMac desktop computers
- 10 iPads
- Apple TV
- 55" Screen TV
- Video Camera & Tripod
- Green Screen photography & film backdrop
Coming Soon!
The Video Production Zone is still under construction as we try to find funding for the necessary lighting to make the green screen usable. An error in the catalog indicated that the lighting was coming with the screen as a kit, but that was not the case. Gloria is working with purchasing to figure it out.
I am surveying staff to gauge interest in mini Professional Development activities with a technology focus that I will be offering in the Learning Commons starting in November.
More great new titles.
November special events and book displays:
- Media Literacy Week
- National Hockey Week
- Anti-Bullying Week
New Additions
Guinness world records, 2014.
Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle : a memoir.
Love, Ann. Pandemic survival : it's why you're alive.
Yang, Gene Luen. Boxers.
Yang, Gene Luen, author, artist. Saints.
Wilkinson, Philip. Great design : the world's best design explored & explained.
King, Ross. Leonardo and the Last supper.
Top 10 world.
Alender, Katie. As dead as it gets.
Appelt, Kathi. The true blue scouts of Sugar Man Swamp.
Bauer, Joan. Almost home.
Betcherman, Michael. Breakaway.
Black, Holly. The coldest girl in Coldtown.
Bossley, Michele Martin. Tampered.
Boyden, Joseph. The Orenda.
Bracken, Alexandra. The darkest minds.
Brown, Jennifer. Thousand words.
Brown, Teri J. Born of illusion.
Cass, Kiera. The Elite.
Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue : a novel.
Charbonneau, Joelle. The testing.
Chima, Cinda Williams. The warrior heir.
Coleman, Reed Farrel. Valentino Pier.
Colfer, Eoin. The reluctant assassin.
Crockett, S. D. (Sophie D.). After the snow.
Croggon, Alison. Black spring.
Cross, Frances. Marty's diary.
Curham, Siobhan. Finding cherokee brown.
Damico, Gina. Rogue.
De la Cruz, Melissa. Gates of Paradise : a Blue Bloods novel. .
De la Cruz, Melissa. Lost in time : a Blue Bloods novel.
De la Cruz, Melissa. Misguided angel.
Denman, K. L. Destination human.
Dessen, Sarah. The moon and more.
Devine, Eric. Tap out.
DiCamillo, Kate. Flora & Ulysses : the illuminated adventures.
Earle, Tom. Home ice advantage : a novel.
Elston, Ashley. The rules for disappearing.
Fforde, Jasper. Shades of grey : the road to High Saffron.
Flynn, Gillian. Dark places.
Gagnon, Michelle. Don't turn around.
Gallant, Gail. Apparition.
Gensler, Sonia. The dark between.
Glines, Abbi. Just for now : a Sea Breeze novel.
Glines, Abbi. The Vincent brothers.
Goobie, Beth. The throne.
Graff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen). A tangle of knots.
Grant, Michael. Light.
Green, John. The fault in our stars.
Griffin, Paul. Burning blue.
Higgins, M. G. Bi-normal : a novel.
Higgins, M. G. Falling out of place.
Hill, Will. Battle lines.
Hopkins, Ellen. Smoke.
Jacobs, Evan. Screaming quietly.
Johnson, Alaya Dawn. The summer prince.
Kadohata, Cynthia. The thing about luck.
Kate, Lauren. Fallen in love : a Fallen novel in stories.
Kay, Guy Gavriel. River of stars.
Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Infamous.
Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Inferno.
Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Infinity.
Kenyon, Sherrilyn. Invincible.
Knowles, Johanna. Living with Jackie Chan.
Koch, Herman. The dinner : a novel.
Kostick, Conor. Edda.
Kostick, Conor. Saga.
Kowalski, William. Just gone.
Landy, Derek. Last stand of dead men.
Lange, Erin Jade. Dead ends.
Legrand, Claire. The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls.
Levithan, David. Every day.
Levithan, David. Two boys kissing.
Lieb, Josh. I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president.
Livingston, Lesley. Starling.
Lord, Gabrielle. Malice.
Lore, Pittacus. The fall of five.
Lowry, Lois. Son.
Lyga, Barry. Game.
Lynch, Chris. Iceman.
Maberry, Jonathan. Dust & decay.
Maberry, Jonathan. Fire & ash.
Maberry, Jonathan. Flesh & bone.
Mafi, Tahereh. Shatter me.
Mafi, Tahereh. Unravel me.
Marsden, John. Burning for revenge.
Marsden, John. The dead of night.
Marsden, John. A killing frost.
Marsden, John. The night is for hunting.
Mayo, Simon. Itch : the explosive adventures of an element hunter.
McCafferty, Megan. Thumped.
McCulloch, Amy. The oathbreaker's shadow.
McKay, Kirsty. Unfed.
McNeal, Tom. Far far away.
Michelle, Sara. The aftermath.
Michelle, Sara. The others.
Miles, Elizabeth. Envy.
Miles, Elizabeth. Eternity.
Moore, Kelly (Kelly Sheelagh). Amber House.
Moriarty, Jaclyn. A corner of white.
Mowll, Joshua. Operation Storm City.
Murdock, Catherine Gilbert. Heaven is paved with Oreos.
Myracle, Lauren. The infinite moment of us.
Ness, Patrick. A monster calls.
Ness, Patrick. More than this.
Noël, Alyson. Echo.
Noél, Alyson. Fated.
Noël, Alyson. Mystic.
Pike, Christopher. Remember me.
Porter, Sarah. Lost voices.
Porter, Sarah. The twice lost.
Porter, Sarah. Waking storms.
Poznanski, Ursula. Erebos : it's a game : it watches you.
Rosenblum, Gregg. Revolution 19.
Rossi, Veronica. Under the never sky.
Rowell, Rainbow. Fangirl.
Ryan, Amy Kathleen. Glow.
Ryan, Amy Kathleen. Spark.
Sanderson, Brandon. The Rithmatist.
Shepard, Sara. Ali's pretty little lies : a Pretty little liars prequel novel.
Shepard, Sara. Cross my heart, hope to die.
Shepard, Sara. Hide and seek.
Shepard, Sara. The lying game.
Shepard, Sara. Never have I ever : a lying game novel.
Shepard, Sara. Seven minutes in heaven.
Shepard, Sara. Two truths and a lie : a lying game novel.
Smith, L. J. (Lisa J.). The forbidden game.
Steampunk! : an anthology of fantastically rich and strange stories.
Stiefvater, Maggie. The dream thieves.
Thomas, Lex. The loners.
Thomas, Lex. The Saints.
Tillit, L. B. Unchained.
Toten, Teresa. The unlikely hero of Room 13B.
Ursu, Anne. The real boy.
Van Diepen, Allison. Takedown.
Van Draanen, Wendelin. The running dream.
Walker, Karen Thompson. The age of miracles : a novel.
Ward, David. Fire in the sky : World War I : Paul Townsend over No Man's Land, 1916.
Wasserman, Robin. The waking dark.
Watts, Irene N. Touched by fire.
Wein, Elizabeth. Rose under fire.
Wright, Bil. Sunday you learn how to box.
Young, Suzanne. The Program.
Leigh Husieff - Teacher-Librarian
Email: husieff_l@surreyschools.ca
Website: http://www.elginparkcommons.com
Location: Elgin Park Secondary, Surrey, BC, Canada
Phone: 6045386678
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