General Membership Info - WSWHESLS

Librarian Network Meeting

October 4^th – Gick Road

No Charge – Funded by the SLS

8:00 registration, 8:30 – 3:00   

email Jkehoe@wswheboces.org  with your registration information. 

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The School Library System annually hosts one Librarian Network- General Membership meeting which is specifically aimed at resources sharing and reaching our students.   At this meeting we will:

· Review this year’s plans for:  Battle of the Books  ILL protocols, Courier & CDLC changes, introductions, resources available to schools:  Grolier’s, EBSCO’s Point of View, TeachingBooks, Brainpop for ELL, & other tools provided for schools via NOVEL.  Our upcoming Copyright in a Copy-Paste World grant and special day on November 29^th.  

· Librarians & the Common Core  - Research to Build and Present Knowledge:   We will walk through tools within the “Empire State Information Fluency Continuum” and discuss  Essential Questions which will help realign lessons to the Common Core. Please bring your IFC  book, if you have one.

· Digital Footprints— What’s the big deal?  How big is your’s and does it stink?  Learn why this is important for our students to “own” their image and how their online behavior defines their digital footprint.  The good, the bad and the ugly.  Learn about our resources, if you’d like to be a pilot
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· Technology & the Common Core—New tools to use with CCSS Connections -Polly Farrington  (Afternoon session)  Polly is always a pleasure.  Come and see what she recommends for CCSS integration. 

Bring your portable device… We will be tweeting with hashtag #SLS2012  we will have a "backchannel" going for questions and more! 

Bring your information fluency binder (if you have one…If you don’t, you will receive one.)

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Looking ahead:  We are hoping to have Kathleen Baxter with us for a day in December.   This will be held jointly with SALS at our WSWHE location. Two sessions:   9-1  or 4-8
More information to follow!