The 21 Challenge

the collection keeps expanding

esum — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:24:15 +0000

We received some more reading material from St. Mildred’s Lightbourn School from Oakville, ON and brand new books from the local furniture store, Wrangling River. Thanks for supporting literacy at SHSS!

In other news, the Scholastic order has come in. These new resources include the bio, chem and physics sets for grades 9-12 and the audio library (book-tape sets). They are currently stored at the back of the library where all the old career counseling materials used to be.

elder-youth exchange publication

esum — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:52:46 +0000

We’ve been very busy at the IYC and SHSS working on a publication that will receive distribution across town about the youth-elder exchange that took place mid-April. Here’s a little (and very low resolution) teaser of what to expect!

new furniture

esum — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:42:18 +0000

The library received a major upgrade on Friday with new couches and special coffee tables. Next week, they’ll be rearranged into cosy reading corners. Now we’ll have to see what we can do about getting a cappuccino machine.

These girls are helping reorganize our collection and got first dibs on the comfy couches.

The joy of reading!

for students

esum — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:13:19 +0000

NOTICE FOR STUDENTS: If you need a chaperone for the Jr Prom Dance on June 13/08, come to the library to help sort our collection after school! We had a surprizingly large turnout last Friday and got a lot of work done – but there’s still more work to do and only two weeks until the dance!

Also, there has been some confusion regarding the books that have come in. These are not the “new” books, but materials from the awesome book drive donation from Yellowknife. Some of “new” books have already been ordered, while we need to work out quotes (and deals) for the rest. Students might be interested in some of the following titles we do have now:

- Naomi Klein’s No Logo
- Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth
- Heuer and Allison’s Being Caribou
- tons of books about the north and the goldrush
- Johnny Cash biographies and bios of other musicians

We also have some interesting titles now on display at the circulation desk, “Climate Change” and “Youth Voices from the Middle East”

“Your friend is your needs answered”

esum — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:34:21 +0000

Wonderful news: the books from Yellowknife have arrived! 23 boxes of books that Daron Letts painstakingly double-checked with us to make sure they were suitable for a school library. We would like to publicly thank everyone who made a donation to this major effort be it through a financial donation, newly purchased or used books, or in their own time and labour to help prepare materials for shipping, and last but not least, shipping sponsorship. You have all been friends to the Samuel Hearne library! I’ll let our students’ smiles speak for themselves:

Some exciting new materials that this shipment included:
- reference books for art and science
- new box sets of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings
- recent back issues of National Geographic
- Canadian fiction
- SF classics from Phillip K Dick and William Gibson
- YA fiction including donations from local author Jamie Bastedo
- climate change materials like An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
and much more!

RCMP and Schlumberger have signed on!

esum — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:19:54 +0000

We’d like to thank the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Schlumberger for their financial support! We are still considering how the RCMP can help the SHSS library for the Adopt-A-Library program, stay tuned to the rss.

Right now, we are in the midst of placing significant orders from a few educational publishers to restock our empty shelves. Quyannaini and mashi choo!

Youth Sub-Committee Meeting

esum — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:01:04 +0000

We had our second Youth Sub-Committee Meeting today at the SHSS library, which was facilitated by the Inuvik Interagency Committee. This is a new sub-committee dedicated to helping meet programming needs for Inuvik youth and students are welcome to join. Organizations involved include SHSS and the Inuvik Youth Center, to name a couple. Students are highly encouraged to become involved! If you’re a student and you have questions/comments, please speak with Mr. Guy or with a representative of your Student Leadership Council.

Kendra Sittichinli memorial update

esum — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:54:04 +0000

Get caught up with the original post.

We recently held a meeting to discuss the logistics of running a memorial for Kendra with the Student Leadership Council and it was decided that, due to the recent run of numerous fundraising events, it would be better to host such an event in the beginning of the Sept 08 school year.

Currently, we are looking for more students to help create letters with the shop class. Interested students should email shssinuvik AT gmail DOT com or speak with their teacher.

incoming books

esum — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:07:27 +0000

We received a wonderful donation today from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation! Some new materials include:

Where are the Children – an exhibition from the National Archives of Canada that examines and criticizes the documentation and photographs of residential school children.
From Truth to Reconciliation – this text offers articles by different aboriginals promoting paths to reconcillation in regards to the residential schools.
Reclaiming Connections: Understanding Residential School Trauma Among Aboriginal People - an accessible resource manual with a good bibliography

We also have received a DVD of the documentary Muffins for Granny. Check out the trailer below:

In other good news, we are slowly compiling our first major purchase orders from educational publishers, Scholastic and Saunders!

the impossible dream

esum — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:32:30 +0000

We would like to welcome the RCMP, Kathy Letham and an anonymous donor to our of 21 Challengers!

We are also especially pleased to announce that we have managed to raise our ambitious goal of $21K for this campaign!

Thank you to our 21 Challengers, all our supporters and to those who helped spread the word about our library.

The students and staff of Samuel Hearne can now expect to see a major influx of new materials and big changes to our once neglected library space! Even though our fundraising goal has been met, we will still be updating this blog with news about the library so please check back or subscribe to our rss feed.