Welocome to the Library Procedures & Rules
This flat, colourful item marks your place so you don't bend the corner of a book's page.
This part of the book holds the pages together like a backbone and faces out when the book sits on the shelf.
Spine
Stories that feature comic panels, speech bubbles and sequential art belong to this popular category.
Graphic Novels, comics.
In autumn, deciduous tree leaves stop making food and change from tis colour to yellow, red or orange.
Green.
This is the spot in the library where you check out your books.
Circulation Desk.
This person's job is to draw, paint or design all the artwork in a book.
Illustrator/Artist
Stories that take place in the made-up worlds featuring magic, mythical creatures or talking animals belong to this genre.
September 22nd or 23rd marks the seasonal event where day and night are almost equal in length?
Autumn/Fall equinox.
Books with real facts, true stories, and information about planets or animals are in this section.
Non-Fiction.
A blurb.
A true book written about a real person's life, written by someone else, is known as this.
Monarch butterflies embark on an incredible multi-thousand kilometre to this country every autumn.
Fiction chapters books in our library are arranged alphabetically on the shelf using this information.
The author's last name.
Title page.
A book centred om solving crime, cracking a code or finding out 'who did it' falls under this category.
Mystery.
On September 30th, Canadians wear this colour of shirt to remember and honour Indigenous children forced into residential schools.
Orange Shirt Day/National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.
This 3 letter or numerical sticker on the books spine acts like the book's home address on the shelves.
Call number.
Found at the back of non-fiction books, this alphabetical list of topics directs you to exact page numbers.
Index.
Fiction set in the real past - where the story is invented, but the time period and events are real- is called this.
Historical Fiction.
In Canada, schools across the country run an annual marathon event in late September honouring this Canadian hero who ran the Marathon of Hope.
Terry Fox.