Welcome to the Penturn Library's Virtual Site!

 

"The library is the heart of a school, with its storehouse of knowledge, it liberates, informs, teaches and enthralls. A library provides a cultural centre where students and teachers alike come to enlarge and clarify knowledge, to read and reflect."

 

"Teacher-librarians play three critical roles in the learning community: teacher, information specialist and administrator. In each of these roles they empower students and teachers to meet higher standards." - Ken Haycock

 

 

The Kathleen Crook and Jim Penturn Library Information Centre is named after the Toronto French School graduate and benefactor who generously supported the Library and built the new library wing.

 

The Library brings together the senior school collection with the middle school collection; it also houses an ever changing student art gallery. The present building incorporates the fine oak study of Clifford Sifton with its imposing marble fireplace and the new wing designed by Moriyama Tashima.

 

The Library contains 4,100square feet of space distributed over several reading areas and is designed to meet the student, staff and collection needs of the curriculum.

 

The main entrance to the Library is off the main corricor of Sifton House in Giles Hall. Directly on your right as you enter the Library is the Reference Room/Salle de Reference.

 

The Penturn Library Information Centre holds 36,000 items of resources, including books, maps, audio-visual resources (VHS, DVD, CD), and subscription to 74 serials (newspapers, magazines and journals).

 

It provides a rich array of resources in print, audio-visual and digital formats that enable users to select information about any topic. On-line databases are extensively used to access information; these databases provide users with the opportunity to develop digital searching skills. Wireless networked laptop computers provide classes, as well as individual students with a wide variety of computer applications.

 

 

Book Collections                                                     

Currently, the Library holds approximately 26,000 individual book titless covering virtually every subject. They are shelved according to the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme; the call number which is available by searching the OPAC terminals. Also the material is accessible by searching the catalogue under author, title, subject or keyword.   

 

Fiction 

The library has a wide variety of popular contemporary and classical fiction books which are shelved in alphabetical order by the author's last name. The French, English, & Spanish collections are in separate alphabetical sequences for your convenience.

 

Non-Fiction

The non-fiction collection contains the general research material you will use for most of your projects and assignments. This is an integrated bilingual collection largely focused on subjects covered by the school's international curriculum. 

 

Reference Collection                                       

Reference books do not circulate (cannot be signed out) but are available for use in the Reading Room. Reference resources are also available in digital format and on the Internet. In this collection are contained multilingual general as well as subject specific, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, directories, yearbooks, and indexes

 

Audio-Visual Materials

The audio-visual collection comprises over 1000 curriculum related video (VHS & DVD), CD & audio-cassette titles. These may be borrowed overnight, on weekends or for classroom loan. 

 

 Journal & Newspaper Collection 

The library subscribes to a large number of journals & newspapers in hard copy; the current issues of which are displayed on the Periodical Display stand. Electronic access to Canadian, French language and international periodicals in full-text and full-image is possible by using eLibrary's Curriculum edition and Répere. Access to eLibrary on the Web, allows you to search 1000's of scholarly journals online from the comfort of your school library.

 

Digital Information Services                                               

There is full access to the Internet and email from the Penturn Library Information Centre. After signing the School's Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and Code of Conduct, the Teacher-Librarians will be pleased to assist students in developing search strategies & navigating online databases and the Internet.

 

 Special Collections - for details please check with library staff.

 

Goals of the Penturn Library Information Centre

  

Teaching Information Literacy

 

• Building Reading Literacy

• Developing Research Skills, critical thinking

• Enhancing Learning Through Technology

• Collaborating with Teachers 

 

 

Functions of the School Library

 

• To be the hub & core of our community.
• Teacher-Librarians with classroom teachers collaborating to develop, interpret and implement inquiry based learning.
• To connect traditional and emerging literacies and technologies.
• To develope balanced collections of learning resources in support of the various national & international curricula studied.
• To link, network and make partnerships in local and global communities.
• To provide student friendly welcoming facilities, programmes and services.

 

 Objectives

 

• Educational leadership.
• Instruction, knowledge and understanding.
• Administration & management of resources, services, programmes and facilities with equality of access for all.

 

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  Site last updated: August, 2008

 

 

Compiled and maintained by Julia Beck, Director of Library Information Services,

 

with technical assistance from TFS students  Websites have been carefully checked for reliability, authority and accuracy, should you find errors please contact jbeck@tfs.ca. You may link to these pages if the site and authors are clearly acknowledged.