The SLS will pay for one person from each district to attend the NYLA Section of School Librarians (SSL) state conference. This will be in Rochester April 25-27 2013 as described at this link: http://sslspring2013.wordpress.com/ If you are your district liaison and do not want to go, you may offer your spot to someone else in your district. If you are not a liaison, and would like to attend, please let me know and if there are spots available, I will try to accommodate your request. There is no CASDA conference this year, so for the same price we can pay your state conference registration, if you pick up lodging and travel.
“Adapt” “adopt” or ignore – That is the advice for the NYSED CCSS exemplar modules.
So, in a building with a well-stocked library, there is NO need for teachers NOT to use your resources rather than the recommended titles. That is an example of adapting the module. The main objective of listing titles in the module is to insure that the students are experiencing ever-increasing difficulty in Lexile. Those resources have been planned for Lexile scaffolding. For example, Your building should not have to purchase books on “Freaky Frogs” if you have amphibian books that will accommodate their research needs.
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Liaison Meeting on January 24th 12:00 – 3:00 : We will be discussing an important database option for Opals users. We are piloting in 3 schools the Opals database access interface, which eliminates the need for passwords and captures all statistics for you. We will discuss this, have an opportunity to try this out and compare this to another new option of a pre-chosen selection of databases from Eastern Suffolk BOCES. (To which you could add Ala carte databases that may not be included in the package).
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ILLs on Opals: - We are all stressed out and under-staffed, but if you can make time at least every-other day to check your ILL requests, it will make the system work a bit better. I have had inquires lately, wondering why some libraries or librarians, do not even respond to requests. One librarian aptly remarked, “I don’t have an aid right now, and I’m trying to respond to other’s requests—I can see in the catalog that the book I need is “checked in,” so I’m wondering why they don’t just reject the request or let me know.”
We work with a great group of savvy librarians, and are so grateful for the cooperation that has existed over the last 10 years! If you are one that needs to check your ILL requests, please ask you aid to do this, if you can’t find the time. If you have no aid… well, let us know you can’t fill the request.
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DIGITAL LEARNING DAY is February 6th! – Why not encourage your school to participate. Visit this link for ideas: http://www.digitallearningday.org/participate/educators/ Share your ideas on the listserv, if you participate. Here are a few thoughts:
- Encourage every teacher in the building to integrate one tech tool
- Use Overdrive on the smartboards
- Use our ebooks on the smartboards
- Send home bookmarks with database or Tumblebooks and Brainpop passwords
- Encourage the use of library databases to find “evidence in a text” to support a position (CCSS)
- Use library databases to “Research to build and present knowledge”
- Showcase tech creations in the library that day
- Invite the PTA in for a technology showcase of your own ____________________________________________________________
Overdrive Bookmarks have been ordered for the secondary library – They had a good deal on February bookmarks. I will inquire about elementary bookmarks, asking for a more “juvenile” picture on the bookmark and order those, if they accommodate my request. These will be distributed at the January 24th meeting.
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