Library News

CVHS Library celebrates Women's History Month with book displays that invite students to explore women's equality. 

Do women have equal rights today?

 How do we make the case today for equality? What would be the benefits to society if women had equal rights? How does not having them hold everyone back?

Great titles encourage and challenge students to explore these questions and formulate strong arguments. 

For more resources:

• About Women’s History Month
• Library of Congress Resources
• National Committee on Pay Equity
• National Women’s History Museum
• National Women’s History Alliance
• Smithsonian Institution: American Women's History Museum

CVUSD is adding new e-resources to support teachers and students. CVHS will gain access to several of them. 

CVHS teachers will find access to the following e-resources on the Library's Database A-Z list in the upcoming weeks:

• JSTOR Secondary Schools Collection (CVHS sitewide)
• Gale in Context: Biography (CVHS sitewide)
• Oxford English Dictionary (CVHS sitewide)
• BookCreator (CVHS, 1 license)

The following resources will become available for other sites:

• BeanStack (4 pilot sites, TBD)
• Pebble & Go

Ms. Stambaugh is currently working with each publisher/vendor to finalize licenses and establish 24/7 access. Whenever possible, Google Single Sign-on will be enabled. 

Once access is enabled with Google SSO, each resource will gradually be included in library subject guides and instructional offerings for all teachers and classes.

Castro Valley High School Library closed out Black History Month with a bang! 

Six advanced Spanish classes did a gallery walk through the library to explore student-created posters about influential Afro-Latinos in the United States. Students read, listened to and commented on biographical information, interviews, recordings and other multimedia.

Thank you, to Ms. Christensen's students and classes for a successful and inspiring cross-cultural and intersectional event.

On February 13, Advanced Spanish students from Ms. Christensen's class celebrate Black History Month at the library with a unique book display. CVHS Advanced Spanish students have researched Afro-Latino authors and will showcase their research skills and the authors' works at the library.  

Explore Afro-Latino authors in this intersectional book display starting February 13th. Class visits are welcome beginning February 14th. Many genres including Sci-Fi and graphic novels. 

Any CVHS student may check out a book that is on display, read a bilingual review of the book written by a CVHS student, listen to a book trailer or listen to an author interview. Bring your cellphones to access the QR codes!

The display will remain in the library until the end of the month. 

Please encourage students to explore authors that bring a unique perspective to literature and our world!

Don't have a date! Go on a Blind Date with a Book. Rate your date after you read it!

Was it love at first read? Friend zone? Awkward but funny? or a hard pass - not my vibe!?

How it works

Visit the library to select your date. Each book is in an envelope with a hint drawn on the front. Kaelyn Anderson, Library TA, has decorated each envelop beautifully. Take out one of the envelopes, drop it off at the library when you're done, and rate your date! 

BDWB and student artwork is brought to you by Library TAs extraordinaire: Natalyi Feldenheimer and Kaelyn Anderson.

Thank you to all who completed the annual Library Quality Survey. Your input is invaluable to the library! 

This was the first year the quality survey was conducted at CVHS. The responses will be analyzed in the upcoming weeks to form a baseline for future changes to library services.

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The quality survey has been adapted for K12 from the LibQual in Higher Education survey. It will be conducted once yearly in the spring. Stakeholder feedback provides important data to help libraries continually improve services.  

All Teachers, Students, Staff and Administrators

Please take the annual Library Service Quality survey to help the library improve! 

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The survey closes January 30th. Our goal is to have ALL teachers, students, staff and administrators complete the survey so that we get actionable data to make improvements for everyone and focus our energies on new services. 

CVHS Library celebrates Black History Month this year focussed on the 2025 ASALH's national heritage theme: African Americans and Labor. 

Visit the library to learn more about the many contributions black and African Americans make in our historical and modern day workforce. 

Afro-Latino Authors

CVHS Library also celebrates Afro-Latino Authors with an intersectional book display, created in collaboration with Ms. Christensen's Advanced Spanish for Heritage Speakers course. In preparation for the display, which will appear mid-February and remain in the library until the end of the month, students research an Afro-Latino author or changemaker, read one of their books, and create a bilingual book display to encourage more students to explore titles and authors that bring a unique perspective to literature and our world. Titles and authors are selected in many genres representative of the scope of contributions Afro-Latinos make to our literary heritage and country. 

The CVHS Bring Change to Mind (BC2M) celebrates Seasons of Service at the library January 20-24 with a book display of YA novels that reflect, explore or celebrate some aspect of mental health. 

Visit the library to browse. Check out a book that might move you! Explore an aspect of the mind you didn't know about before.