We hope that you had a wonderful break over the Holidays and wish you all the best for 2026. Be sure to come down soon to visit your school library, and continue to enjoy all that we have to offer in the coming year.
Happy New Year
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School Library Day AND Drop Everything and Read
Today is Canada School Library Day, BC School Library Day, and the day of the annual DEAR Challenge: Drop Everything and Read.
Library Books about Libraries
Library books about libraries and books. And librarians, literacy, information, reading, intellectual freedom, learning commons, and all topics to consider for Canadian Library Month and International School Library Month.
Library Hall of Fame
October is Canadian Library Month and International School Library Month. Today we are highlighting a few noteworthy librarians who are the first inductees into our “Library Hall of Fame.”
Zoia Horn
Zoia Horn (1918-2014) was a librarian who went to jail rather than abandon her professional integrity and steadfast commitment to intellectual freedom. Horn was pressured by authorities to testify against anti-war activists charged with conspiracy during the Vietnam War. Horn refused, and was jailed for three weeks for contempt, the first time that has happened to a librarian in the United States. The California Library Association presents an annual Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award in honour of her legacy.
Brian Deer
Brian Deer (1945–2019), a Mohawk from the First Nations Territory of Kahnawake in Quebec, was one of the first Indigenous librarians in Canada. Deer developed an original library classification system that expresses Indigenous knowledge structures. The Brian Deer Classification System has been adapted for use in libraries across Canada, including the indigenous library at UBC, the Xwi7xwa Library.
Nancy Pearl
Probably the most famous living librarian in the world. Nancy Pearl rose to fame in Seattle while working for the Seattle Public Library. Her fame grew rapidly with the success of her books. Today is she is well known around the continent, and even the world, for her presence on public radio, podcasts, public appearances and more. She has won numerous awards, including Library Journal‘s Librarian of the Year Award in 2011. Her crowning achievement, however, may be the phenomenal success of the Nancy Pearl Librarian Action Figure.
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Check back here in upcoming posts for more additions to the “Library Hall of Fame.”
Library Themed Links
In keeping with the continuing celebration of all things library during International School Library Month and Canadian Library Month, here are some links to some interesting library themed content. Enjoy!
- College Students Just Want Normal Libraries (The Atlantic)
- Floor Plans of Famous Fictional Libraries (Mental Floss)
- The World’s Most Beautiful Libraries (The Guardian)
- Social justice is a library issue; libraries are a social justice issue (BoingBoing)
- 50 Fictional Librarians, Ranked (Literary Hub)
October is International School Library Month
and Canadian Library Month.
Why read for pleasure?
Why read for pleasure?
Reason #1: Pleasure
There are countless reasons why people read. And there are countless ways that reading for pleasure can bring you pleasure.
People read to be entertained.
People read to escape.
People read to be pulled into a story.
People read to laugh.
People read to cry.
People read to be scared.
People read to be amazed.
People read to experience other times.
People read to experience other places.
People read to share in the experiences of other people.
People read to learn something.
People read to relax.
People read to get motivated.
People read to be inspired.
People read to be thrilled.
People read to understand.
People read to be challenged.
People read to be reassured.
People read to see something new.
People read to see something familiar.
People read for so many reasons.
People read and they don’t know why, they just like it.
Visit your school library to find a book to read for pleasure– that is the #1 reason we are here!
October is International School Library Month
and Canadian Library Month.
Invest in Libraries
“The conservative, careful and fiscally responsible path to improving literacy is by investing in libraries and librarians.”
October is International School Library Month
and Canadian Library Month.
Buck
Buck the Library Duck.
Why is he called Buck the Library Duck?
Well, Buck is a Duck.
Buck lives in the Library.
He is a Duck who lives in the Library.
He is a Library Duck with the name of Buck.
So, you see, it is an appropriate moniker, Buck the Library Duck.
Seeing in Technicolour
The first of in what we hope is a series of free lunch time concerts on the new school library stage went today and it was a big success! Thanks to “Seeing in Technicolour,” a band of Lord Tweedsmuir senior students, who put on a great show.
A small but enthusiastic crowd of students was on hand to enjoy the music. We hope that word can spread that we can pack in even more people for our next show.
If you are a performer, either in a band or a solo act, we would love to give you the chance to perform on our stage in a future event!
See Mr. Sexton or Mr. Swaddling for more information.
Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary School Library 