Golden Oak Book Club
Just a reminder that any of our students and tutors can join the Golden Oak Book Club. The purpose of the club is to encourage reading for pleasure. You will also learn about some great Canadian books. You can read on your own, with a tutor, or as part of the book club which meets at our Eganville office on the last Monday of the month from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (Note: there will be no meeting in December. The January meeting will move up to January 17.) Call Sue to confirm your attendance in this group.
You can read one, two, or all of the books. There are six books on this year's reading list:
- Beginnings: Stories of Canada's Past, edited by Ann Walsh
- Bobbie Rosenfeld: The Olympian Who Could Do Everything, by Anne Dublin
- Tales from the Isle of Spice, by Ricardo Keens-Douglas
- Tom Finder, by Martine Leavitt
- The Tunnel King: the True Story of Wally Floody and the Great Escape, by Barbara Hehner
- Truth, by Tanya Lloyd Kyi
We have one copy of each book at the office. The books may also be available at your local public library. Once you have chosen a book to read, you can contact the office to get a kit to help you get the most from reading your book. Each book has a kit with pre-reading activities, discussion questions for beginning and more advanced readers, and additional learning activities to help you get the most from reading your book.
If you have access to a computer, you can also check out the website for Golden Oak at www.accessOLA.com/goldenoak. You can even vote for your favourite book!
Whichever approach suits you, tutors please encourage your learners to be active readers in the book club!
Library Project
On December 8, volunteer librarians Tish Smith and Jean Lopushanski led a handson workshop for staff, board members and other volunteers on how to use the new library catalogue system. More than 1,200 books have now been entered in the computer database and placed on the newly labelled shelves. These are our core resources for teaching and learning.
Like 95% of public libraries in Canada, our library now uses the Dewey Decimal System to categorize books. The Dewey system divides all knowledge into 10 numbered categories. Subdivisions of these categories are indicated by decimals.
The new database allows us to search for books by subject, as well as by title and author. This will help staff and tutors more easily find resources for particular needs. The database will also be used to manage the borrowing and return of books. We will be asking volunteers to help us with that and to help us keep the library organized and efficient.
Again, we gratefully thank Tish and Jean for all the time and expertise they have given to this project.
Reminder
Tutors, please return any resources you may have and are no longer using so that they too can be entered into the library catalogue system.