Two lists of book recommendations have been put together in connection to the anti-racist month. One on the theme of women in Iran / Iranian women and another one on the theme of India and Indian people.
For teachers there are also a couple new nonfiction books in connection with the antiracist month:
- Att motverka rasism i förskolan och skolan / Emma Arneback & Jan Jämte.
- Black lives matter at school : an uprising for educational justice / edited by Denisha Jones and Jesse Hagopian ; foreword by Opal Tometi.
Books on Halloween theme and resources on Dia de los Muertos theme are also being displayed in the library and books by authors that will arrange crime fiction (Christoffer Carlsson and Shaun David Hutchinson) for grade 9 and fantasy writing workshops (Brandon Mull) for grade 6 in December.
In November the climate conference COP27 will take place in Egypt. The news magazine First News has arranged an opportunity for students to create and send messages to world leaders in connection to that including a filming guide. (Ask your librarian Elin, and she will share it with you. It can also be used in other contexts). If you as a teacher or student would like to arrange messages for COP27, please talk to Elin.
In the last issue of First News there was also an article about online safety, as the library recommend all advisors and students to read and discuss students. When you read it, maybe the discussion questions could be: How do you know what / who to trust and how can you protect yourself when being online?
If you as a teacher or student would like the library to visit your class to sign up for a personal Britannica account (it works now again, after some technical problem) or get started or support with World Book, EBSCO or any other resource, do lessons on academic honesty, source evaluation, citations, in-text citations, how to come up with research question or anything else, please let the library know.
In the library the number of magazines has been reduced, because the offices for several magazines we used to subscribe to have moved from the UK to the US. We hope that this is just temporary, that several magazines are hard to get hold of.
The library will come up with an activity in connection to the Reading break (as the autumn break is called in Sweden). After that, the library will focus more than usual on reading motivation and reading promotion until Christmas.
In connection to the World Mental Health Day on October 10th, the library promoted some resources to teachers. If you as a student are interested in reading them also, you are also welcome to do. Just talk to Elin, your librarian:
- Staff guide : Healthy relationships with ourselves and our peers by Mental Health Foundation.
- Rethinking rest by Mental Health Foundation and Reflect and Refocus. It focus on the body, mind, heart, soul, connectivity and senses.