Category: Reading

What do you want?

What books would you like to borrow from your School Library? Let us know. Go to our Requests page to let us know what you want.

We want to get good books onto our shelves, so that you can get those good books into your hands, so that you can read good books that you are interested in.

Get the books* that you want.

Go here to link to our Requests page

*Books include regular printed books in hardcover or paperback form, ebooks, audiobooks, etc. We also have magazines, board games, DVDs and other audiovisual materials, and much, much more.

National Day for Truth & Reconciliation

The School Library, and Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School, are closed on Monday, September 30, in observance of Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. “The day honours the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process.” (canada.ca). As always, we urge you to consider how “Truth & Reconciliation” can be pursued throughout the year beyond September 30.

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Banned Books Week

September 22 to 29 is the ALA’s “Banned Books Week.” While we in Canada observe the similar “Freedom to Read Week” in the new year, we can also join with our American neighbours in recognizing the very real threats to freedom and democracy that are posed by the massively sharp rise of book banning. The US has seen an especially concerted attack on books for teens about marginalized communities. We are not immune from such fascist tactics in Canada, as book challenges have risen in step with the rise of far right propaganda, and in most cases are centered on schools, classrooms and school libraries.

Find out more about Banned Books Week.