Library News

CVHS Library announces a new schoolwide vocabulary building challenge. 

The Word Wise weekly challenge encourages students to learn and practice a set of academic words. The academic words are initially selected from Avril Coxhead's Academic Word List (AWL), University of Wellington, NZ.  

Teachers can engage students in the Word Wise challenge via this link. New words are posted on Mondays. Self-quizzes are posted on Fridays.

https://library.cv.k12.ca.us/academicwriting/vocabulary

Students can also independently find a new “Build vocabulary” section on the library website under the student services menu. 

The library will offer prizes at the end of the semester for:

• Stupendous effort 
• Most words learned
• Most creative use
• Word wise wizard level, individual
• Most word wise class and runner up (Frosh, Sophomore, Junior, Senior)

The Words of the Week for November 11-15 are:

This program is inspired by our English teachers' call to all academic departments to contribute to teaching academic vocabulary to our students. Thank you, English teachers!

The third Love My Library Cleanup event will take place after school on November 14. Students, library volunteers, club advisors, and administrators who use the library after hours are all encouraged to register. Register on the library events calendar. 

The Love My Library and Take the Pledge Program are pilot programs to enable a food in the library policy while also improving the preservation of library collections. 

Our last two events are in November and December and will focus on completing the fiction collections bookshelves and some study spaces. In December the program will be assessed for participation and progress toward collection preservation. 

Let's keep our library sparkling! Thank you for registering.

By popular demand, CVHS Library has added a “View Catalog” button on the homepage. Students, teachers and staff now have the option to access the library catalog directly without entering a search or by entering a search. 

The button functions similarly to the “View A-Z databases” on the Database A-Z tab, which, when clicked, displays all academic databases available to CVHS students and staff.

Library users must log in to Destiny using their school Google account to be able to view their account.

This month, CVHS Library celebrates the history and contemporary works of Native American, Indigenous and First Nations authors and activists. A special exhibit documents the historic Klamath River Dam removals and Yurok youth eco-activists. CVHS environmentalists can gain inspiration from this decades-long effort to restore the natural flow of the Klamath River.

Biography

Fiction

Activism, Agency and Resistance

Yurok Youth EcoActivism and the Klamath Dam Removals

History

The library sparkles after the Love My Library cleanup event on October 23. 

More than two dozen students generously volunteered one hour of their time after school to help clean the library. They removed all of the books from the bookcases in the Science Fictions and Fantasy section, cleaned the bookcases and returned the books to the shelves. Study tables and chairs between the printers and in the Quiet Zone were also cleaned top to bottom.  

Students received a “Certificate of Appreciation," baked cookies and pre-Halloween treats. 

Thank you, to all of our volunteers!

The Love My Library cleanup events are part of the Positive Behaviors (PBIS) Take the Pledge pilot program involving a new food policy in the library. Students and staff who wish to bring food into the library participate in these monthly events to help preserve the the library collections and maintain the community facility.

Register for future Love My Library cleanup events on the library events calendar. The next events are on November 14 and December 19. 

CVHS Library launches its Friends of the Library program with information for families about volunteering and contributing to the library. 

Families will find:

• Guidance about supporting a child's learning, including ways to encourage and develop lifelong readers. 
• Opportunities to volunteer as a guest speaker or in a library event.
• Opportunities to contribute.

Visit the “Families” section of the library website:

Visiten la biblioteca para observar la ofrenda dedicado a nuestros queridos ya difuntos. Celebramos su presencia viva y su recorrido a Mictlán. 

La exhibición fue realizada por los alumnos de CVHS de las clases de Español Avanzado y Cerámica. Los estudiantes investigaron la historia y el significado cultural de este día. A través de presentaciones, los alumnos de Español Avanzado inspiraron a los estudiantes de Artes Cerámicas para crear calaveritas, papel picado, velas y flores de cempasúchil.

Agradecemos a las profesoras Christensen y Bittner por su dedicación y liderazgo. 

CVHS Library received its first self-checkout station! Students and staff can check out books independently. 

Library self-checkout is a crucial service for independent reading and self-directed learning. 

Studies show the more self-sufficiency and choice young people have in the entire process of reading, the more likely they will become lifelong readers. And lifelong readers perform better on many social indicators (income, career, wellness, longevity.)

A big thank you to the families who contributed to the library via the ASB to support library technologies. And thank you to all of the staff that made this happen and who will sustain it over time, including Harry Hui and Nalong Vongtharangsy, David Prinvale, Library Paraprofessionals and TAs. 

Students and teachers can now access the library's subscription citation manager, NoodleTools, through their Google accounts. 

Visit the academic writing guide on the library website to get started (or click on MLA Citation & Paper Format). 

Detailed account setup instructions are on the database page for NoodleTools. 

CVHS Library announces its first Subject Guide to support Modern World History. Subject guides connect teachers and students to library resources in a specific subject area or topic. 

The Modern World History guide is tied to curriculum standards and provides access to the primary and secondary sources discussed in the textbook as well as additional resources in the library (in print and digital format.) By using the guide, students and teachers can broaden their learning about key moments in history from the Enlightenment to present day with excellent information resources. 

The first page of the Modern World History guide provides comprehensive access for most topics covered in high school. The secondary pages of the subject guide focus on specific units, in this case, a specific historical period (e.g. the Industrial Revolution.) Over time, the secondary pages will be built to cover additional units (e.g. the Great Depression), and additional resources in all formats will be featured (books, eBooks, documentary film, etc.)

Subject guides appear on the library website:

Subject guides can also be accessed in the library's main search menu:

For more information about subject guides for teachers and department chairs, and how to request priority development of a guide for your department, please visit the Teacher Services page.