When: Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 11:50 a.m.
Where: Education Library Media Center
Topic for August: Finding Children’s Literature

Are you looking for the best picture books to teach about a special topic for your class? Perhaps you already have a good book and want to find another on a similar theme? Or maybe you’re just looking for a good kid’s book to read and want to find the latest award-winning title?

If you answered “YES” to any one of the questions above, then you will want to sign-up for August’s workshop on how to find children’s and young adults’ literature at the Education Library. Attendees of this workshop will learn strategies on how to search for children’s and young adults’ books by subject, grade, and award.

Sign-up sheets are located at the circulation desk at the Education Library. For more information, please contact Mark Mueller at mmueller@tyndale.ca or at Extension 2227.

Length: 25 Minutes

The Education Library will be hosting the first of a series of mini-tours on the following dates:

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 (12:0o p.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 (12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.)

The first mini-tour called “Books, books, books, and more books” is about finding printed and electronic books through the Tyndale Library System.

Attendees of this mini-tour will be:

• introduced to the Library of Congress cataloging system
• provided instruction on how to use the library catalog OnTRAC
• introduced to the e-Book collection available through the Tyndale library website

If you are interested in signing up for one of the mini-tours please contact Mark Mueller at mmueller@tyndale.ca. You may also sign up for one of the mini-tours at the Education Library circulation desk.

If you are unable to attend any of these mini-tours you can also book a one-on-one appointment with Mark by e-mailing him or by phone at 416-226-6620, ext. 2227.

Please note: we will be meeting in the Education Library’s Media Center at 12:00 noon on each day.

Teachers’ own comments return to report cards
by Kate Hammer
Taken from the Globe and Mail website on Thursday, March 4, 2010. Link.

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“Full list of GTA schools to get full-day of kindergarten: is your school in it?”
Taken, written by Rob Roberts, from the National Post, January 12, 2010

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All across Canada, public libraries are taking a new shape. Far from being the traditional centers of dusty books and printed materials, libraries are evolving into bustling, wired community hubs - with ever increasing circulation and tech-heavy inventories.

The following Globe & Mail article discusses this exciting trend in more detail.

The following is a list of upcoming events and professional development opportunities for teachers in the province of Ontario during the month of February 2010.

If you know of any events that you would like to see listed in this blog, please e-mail them to Mark Mueller at mmueller@tyndale.ca.

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Fall report cards are eliminated in more Ontario schools
Taken from the Windsor Star - January 4, 2010 - written by Don Lajoie

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