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Prince Albert Grand Council
School Library Development Committee
Newsletter Winter 2011
LEAH DORION Author Leah Dorion captivated students in the schools she visited. In addition to reading her book The Giving Tree , she brought some of the original artwork done for this book. She passed these pieces of art around to emphasize to students how much work is involved in writing and publishing a book. She toured Wahpeton, Montreal Lake, Little Red and Sturgeon Lake. Leah is an extremely talented author and presenter. She relates very well with all ages of students and is flexible in her presentations. What a delightful author to have in our schools!! (pictured above—Leah Dorion and Blanche Bird)
WELCOME!!!!!
Nisto Awasisak at Cumberland House has a new librarian.
A hearty WELCOME is extended to Gabriel Buck.
Gabriel comes to us as an experienced librarian having
worked in libraries in Saskatoon and The Pas. He has an excellent “game plan” for the library at Cumberland and is to be
commended for his enthusiasm and work ethic.
Gabriel, on behalf of PAGC and your fellow librarians I extend
to you a warm welcome. You join an excellent group of “top shelf”
librarians. Welcome aboard!!!
Recently, I had the opportunity to visit briefly with Edna Mirasty in her library at Senator Myles Venne School. Edna has a
great idea for organization of her library. She has placed colored dots on all of her non fiction books based on the Dewey System.
For example, all the 300’s have orange dots and all the 900’s have green dots. She says it makes shelving much easier. Makes
sense if you can load the book truck by color first and then sort it would save a lot of moving back and forth. GREAT IDEA
EDNA!!!!
Edna continues to run a Family Literacy Program from her library and has a lot of expertise in this area. If you are looking
for ideas, she would be a great resource!
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy
to govern but, impossible to enslave!
Bradley
School Library Advisory Committee
Meeting Feb. 3rd and 4th were the dates of our second meeting. After
clearing the “business” part of the meeting we were on to the
fun part! Pictured here is Myrna Sopal from the Prince Albert
Literacy Network. She gave us some great ideas for library
activities and Family Literacy. Myrna also encouraged us to
borrow Story Sacks from the Network. Thursday also saw us
do some exploring of web sites that are useful for literacy. On
Friday, Grace Thomson introduced us to the website of Jan
Brett. What great resources are available there and they are all
free!! Jan Brett Books would be a great addition to any library.
Members of the Committee felt that the time they had spent
was very worthwhile and that there is indeed benefit from
meeting in smaller groups.
Thanks to Marcelynn Constant who made sure we all had Jan
Brett books for Grace’s presentation.
Next meeting will be in May — see you in the spring!!
Raise a Reader Once again we were fortunate to receive a grant from the Star
Phoenix for the Raise a Reader Project.
This year, our target group is grade 2. Each students in grade 2
will receive a zip loc bag with a book, activity sheet and ticket.
The goal is to have the student take the book home and read it
with a parent or guardian. Then, do the activity sheet and, finally
return the ticket to the school library where a draw will be made.
Students get to keep the book and some lucky person will win the
prize. The real winner is the student who hopefully will get
“Hooked on Reading”.
Joseph Naytowhow and John Murray Once again, we were delighted to have Joseph Naytow-
how and John Murray tour some of our schools!
Joseph Naytowhow is a gifted storyteller, musician and
author. He is highly sought after and we are indeed fortunate to
have had him with us. He has recently been on tour in France
and Ottawa.
John Murray is also an excellent musician who can play
the “saw” and fiddle equally well. John works with Nature Sas-
katchewan and heavily promotes saving our forests. He has
some great pictures in his presentation.
Thank you to all the schools we visited — you were ex-
cellent hosts!
“ LIBRARY PEOPLE”
Seen here is Harriet Roy from PNLS working on the
installation of SILS at Montreal Lake. Looks like fun!
A warm welcome at Grandmother’s Bay from Librarian Sally!
Above is an example of Edna’s
“dots”.
Here we have Grace and Bernice
at the Library Committee Meet-
ing!