Know & Go Volume 1 | Issue 22

Volume 1 | Issue 22

Know & Go @your Library

Nancy’s NOOK  

Folle Shelf —if you change the admin password, please let Nancy know.

Spend, spend, spend! All money needs to be spent! Library Services final PO date for 2013‐2014 will be Friday, April 18th. The earlier you order, the higher the percentage of DNE fill rate.

Other Reminders  

Coming Soon—End of the year reflec ons and core data submission informa on.

Conference Sharing— A er returning from a conference or workshop, please take some me to reflect on your learning and share with your colleagues your insights from the experience. In the Google form, h p:// nyurl.com/C‐ sharing please give a brief synopsis of what you personally took away from the conference and how you might apply it to your library. Be sure to include links or resources that might be helpful.

Google Drive Cer fica on Informa on At the end of last week Google made a change to their cer fica on and tes ng system that has a few small implica ons for us. The only thing you really need to know is how to navigate the new site and find both the tests and the study materials for Drive. Google Drive now has level 1 and level 2 training and you'll want to complete both of them. The good news is level 1 is really short and is more of just an overview. Level 2 is more comprehensive and will provide most of the answers that you will need for to pass the test. This is where you should spend most of your me. In this level, there are many videos that help to illustrate the topics and concepts covered. In Lesson 8 you'll find a link that will be important for the cer fica on test as well. Get all the links you need on the Library Services webpage.

If you've already taken the test, there is nothing else that you have to do. If you have studied the materials from before, the informa on is s ll the same and the tests have not been changed. It's just their delivery of the training program materials.

Additional resources for DOC & Drive help.

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Docs & Drive Help Click Here

Drive Support Documentation Click Here

Highlighted & Underlined from METC 2014 Technology, Research, and Learning Resources Another great resource ‐ Google Books h p://books.google.com/googlebooks/about/ How does it work?

Finding books with Google Books is as easy as finding websites with Google Web Search; just enter the keyword or phrase you're looking for into the Google Books box. Click on a book tle and you'll see basic info about the book just like you'd see in a card catalog. You might also see a few snippets — sentences of your search term in context. If a publisher or author has given us permission, you'll see a full page and be able to browse within the book to see more pages. If the book is out of copyright, you'll see a full page and you can page forward or back to see the full book. Clicking on Search within this book allows you to perform more searches within the book you've selected.

You can click on the Buy eBook bu on to buy a book from the Google Play store. In many cases, you can also click Find this book in a library to find a local library where you can borrow it. If the book is available as a Google eBook, you'll also see a buy bu on for purchasing the digital edi on.

Do you like Wordle or Tagxedo—Then check this out!

The people from Tech & Learning ‐ Ideas and tools for ed tech leaders—put together a list of world cloud generators that have their own unique features to use with students in the library. h p://www.teachthought.com/technology/10‐tools‐student‐centered‐crea ve‐expression/

Media Literacy—an ability to understand how mass media works, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. (h p://www.cmp.ucr.edu/) Since our students are bombarded with digital imagery what be er way to get them involved than using these sugges ons from TeachThought—5 Smart Ways to Use Digital Images in the Classroom.

This ar cle and the suggested ac vi es encourage students to think abstractly and complex ideas, transform curriculum, and promote crea vity. Sugges ons include: visual biographies, photo essays, visual storytelling, photojournalism, and vocabulary building.

Top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading Doug Johnson was upda ng his workshop on how technology can be used to promote Voluntary Free Reading ‐ the only undebatably fool‐proof means of both improving reading proficiency and developing a life‐long love of reading in every student. He started this project in 2011 and now has a list of great ideas from people like Sarah Ludwig, Joyce Valenza,, Anita Beaman. His top 10 ways to use technology to promote reading include: author/fan websites, networking sites, cura on tools, produc vity tools, library promo on webpages, digital displays, virtual author visits, eBooks & apps, and reading assessment tools. h p://doug‐johnson.squarespace.com/blue‐skunk‐blog/2014/2/10/top ‐10‐ways‐to‐use‐technology‐to‐promote‐reading.html What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

@your Library DIY @your Library YALSA’s Teen Tech Week (March 9‐15) is a great opportunity for libraries to make the me to showcase the great non‐print resources and services available to teens and their families. This year, celebrate with the theme “DIY @ your library.” Use the week to demonstrate the value of your library in the community by offering teens a space to extend learning beyond the classroom, where they can explore, create, and share content. From makerspaces, to coding classes, to online kni ng clubs, you can leverage the do‐it‐yourself theme to show how libraries can connect in meaningful ways with the teens in your community. For more information about Teen Tech Week, please visit www.ala.org/teentechweek.

School Library Month @your Library For those that like to look ahead, April is school library month. Every year AASL celebrates school librarians and their programs. AASL encourages everyone to create ac vi es to help their school and communi es celebrate the essen al role that school library programs plan in a student’s educa on career. There is a nice SLM event Almanac for the April 2013 with many interes ng ideas and resources to help with ideas for April. h p://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/almanacs/pdf/actalmApr.pdf

"Libraries made me a writer, but more importantly, they made me a thinker." ~Sarah Darer Littman

Learning Opportunities Parkway Library Media Webinar Series Archived Links to Google Collabora ve Tools, Elements of Digital Ci zenship, the AASL Conference Wrap‐up, and Seeing Horizon Through Student Eyes can be found on the Library Services webpage. Upcoming events will include the METC and MASL conference roundup.

Weeding Tips: Tackling Fic on—Tuesday, March 25th 1:00PM Fic on is one of the more daun ng weeding projects. A er all, it can be difficult to remain objec ve when it comes to fic on, and the helpful rules for weeding nonfic on, based on outdated or superseded informa on, don’t apply here. Join us for this free, hour‐long webinar with Booklist Reference and Collec on Management editor Rebecca Vnuk, who will talk about the many variables of weeding adult fic on, and Simmons College associate professor Amy Pa ee, who will cover youth and YA fic on. Representa ves from our sponsor, collec on HQ, will showcase how their transfer tool can iden fy tles that can be transferred between collec ons to maximize weeding efforts. —REGISTER HERE

Join the Community on Emerging Tech for Your School Library Emerging Tech is a professional learning community (PLC) where school librarians can explore all the ways to integrate technology and 21st century learning into school library programs. The community hosts free monthly webinars and live chats. Check the edWeb.net website fore upcoming webinars.

Student Opportuni es In honor of School Library Month, AASL is encouraging students to submit videos that connect to this year’s theme: Lives Change @your Library.. Check out the contest eligibility and rules at h p://www.ala.org/ aasl/slm/2014/video

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Contact Information Bill Bass Twitter: billbass Skype: bill.bass3 Kim Lindskog Twitter: klindskog Skype: klindskog Nancy Ikemeyer Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer

tinyurl.com/libserv Access the Library Services Webpage using the QR code below.

Camera Uploads Ka e Messner Skype author visit at Barre s.

Google+ Hangout with 4th grade students from the Rockwood SD. The students at Green Trails were trying to guess the famous Missourians.

Bill and I had the opportunity to present at St Louis Regional Library Network—Tech Expo at Logan College. While we were there we had the chance to network with public, private, and other academic librarians and hear what the profession is talking about when it comes to resources and programs. A resource that was men oned is ilovelibraries.org, which is an ALA ini a ve to support one of our na on’s most important resources… our libraries.

An idea that I thought you might like to use to promote books and reading @ your library was the “Shelfie” ...yes the selfie includes a picture with your favorite book. Kind of a new spin on the Read poster idea.

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?

Thinking About Library Spaces

Last week I had the opportunity to visit CAPS—Center for Advanced Professional Studies. CAPS is an example of how industry and the educa onal system can work together produce personalized learning experiences that prepare students for 21st century opportuni es. While at the facility I was looking at the way they use the space and the furniture they use to reconfigure and define their learning spaces.

What does it mean to be a librarian in the digital age?