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Library Services Volume 6 | Issue 9 Library Links
What it mean to be librarian in the digital age? Notes &does Reminders
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Destiny FAQ
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District Surplus Property
Notes & Reminders
Procedures
Follet Ordering Process Updates
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Follett Acct #'s
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Follett req Instructions
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Free Lib Books @ Lib Serv
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Future Ready Librarian Framework Future Ready Goals (blank) #Future Ready Resources
Per finance (DESE rules), ebooks/audiobooks that are accessed via a website need to be ordered separately from books. Audiobooks, like playaways (physical format) will also need to be ordered on a separate order. If you need clarification, feel free to contact Nancy. (email 7/16 & 9/20)
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Future Ready Wedge Resources ISTE & Future Ready Crosswalk Librarians List 2018-2019
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Library Services Site
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Library Services Policies
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(Schoolwires login required) Lib Prog Guiding Docs Folder Makerspace Order Form Personalized Learning Program Evaluation Guidelines Record a PD event
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Sub librarian list
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Sub Training Videos
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Travel & Reimbursement (BOE) Guidelines
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Talking Points ○ Building Instructional Partnerships ○ Future Ready Library Spaces ○ Use of Space & TIme: Building a Flexible Program Who To Call
A quick reminder, when placing Follett orders: 1. Email Nancy first. 2. Always wait for a response before ordering. 3. When creating an order for library books, remember to check you want CATALOGING and PROCESSING (email 10/11) 4. Place order and then print order as a PDF (under the print menu) immediately and share in Follett orders folder located here. The need to print immediately is of the utmost importance. This is when the order is pending and has not been assigned an invoice number. If an invoice number is created and showing on Titlewave before you print, the order will be canceled (email 11/5). If all of the above does not happen, your order may not have a PO generated, and then may be canceled.(emailed 7/18)
Last Day for Follett Orders From Nancy’s March 12th email, the last day for Follett orders for the 2018-2019 budget year is April 9th, 2019. This is to ensure the greatest amount of time for orders to fill. Please let Nancy know if you have any questions.
Humor @your Library
Search Google Drive by File Type or Drop-Down Menu of Options!
Curates Digital Resources & Tools
So you or your students can’t find what they are looking for in Drive. By clicking on the drop-down arrow in the Search Drive box you will be able to locate what you are looking for either by type, date modified, item name, has the words, or shared with. My favorite is by type.
Bonus: Create a Mobile App in 5 Minutes This app maker is powered by the data in your Google Sheets and is easy to customize and share. Imagine if you will making a library app that shares all of your library essential information and statistics! See the video and get started at go.glideapps.com Note: Terms of Services states this is only for user’s over the age of 18.
From the
Empowers Students as Creators
blog, check out the articles, posters, printables, and flyers on hosting a staff and student party to celebrate School Library month. dontyoushushme.com International Scribble Day March 27, 2019 International Scribble Day is based off the book “I’m Not just a Scribble…” by Diane Alber. This book not only has a great moral about kindness and acceptance but also encourages children to create art regardless of their artistic ability! After all, “Great art starts with a Scribble!” CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
Etch-A-Sketch Goes Online Etch A Sketch was a favorite toy beginning in the 1960s. Now there is an online version of the famous toy. The Web a Skeb has horizontal and vertical “knobs” similar to a traditional Etch a Sketch and has a shake button to erase your drawing. Unlike the original toy, Web a Skeb has three modes or styles, Fast, Fancy, and Fanciest. From Alice Keeler’s Teacher Tech Blog
All things that are Poetry Month can be found at
Take a look at the 30 ways to celebrate, get the poster, resources, and programming ideas at www.poets.org
How to Introduce LittleBits Get your students started on their amazing Bits journey! Guide them through their Bits kit, showing them how they now have access to the fundamental building blocks for the electronics they use in everyday life. Then, give them time to play, create, and remix the essential engineering process.
Geography Tools that Mess with Your Head. Cause that’s a Good Thing In the article from www.techlearning.com seven resources for connecting with maps is shared. ● ● ● ●
36 Maps That Explain the World, 40 More Maps That Explain the World, 37 Maps That Highlight Immigration in the US 33 Maps That Explain the United States Better Than Any Textbook
Classroom Application:
Builds Instructional Partnerships
Ask students to review basic maps skills by asking kids to map their memories. Get an idea of what that can look like at this Tumblr. Then ask students to create a map that targets something specific to them on a map. Work with your ELA teachers and have students create Lit Trip maps of fiction, non-fiction, and short stories that they’re reading. Ask kids to create maps of their favorite video games or movies. Activating prior knowledge and connecting that to a visual format such as a map is perfect for building map skills. Try using infographics to create maps that look different than what kids expect. Ask them to create their own using tools such as Canva (for students over 13 or with parent consent) or Infogram (for students over 14 and parent consent). Explore the tools at The True Size – an online tool that can help students visualize the actual size of countries. Use Bouncy Maps to connect locations with data. Maps become bigger or smaller to show differences in the data. Credit to Glenn Wiebe, an education and technology consultant, who blogs frequently at History Tech and maintains Social Studies Central, a repository of resources targeted at K-12 educators. Visit glennwiebe.org to learn more about education technology, innovative instruction and social studies.
Bonus: Where (on Google Earth) is Carmen Sandiego? If you’re of a certain age, you likely remember playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on your computer at home or at school. Now, Google is bringing Carmen Sandiego into Google Earth for a series of games heavily-inspired by the original computer game. The first installment in this new series is called The Crown Jewels Caper, and you can play it now in the Google Earth app for Android and iOS or right in the Google Chrome browser. Credit: androidauthority.com
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#ParkwayReads - Literacy
22 Diverse Book Choices for All Grade Levels In this article from Edutopia book recommendations are made from teachers who are working to offer students at every grade level book choices that represent their lives. Check out the K-12 list that represents the richness of students’ lives. The list includes writers and fictional characters with a variety of backgrounds, beliefs, and life circumstances is a way to increase the chances that students will find both windows and mirrors in the library—books that reflect their lives, and ones that give them insight into the lives and experiences of people who aren’t like them.
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime (2019 list)
Bonus: Book Recommendation Menus Help guide students to books with similar styles or topics; much like the feature on Amazon: customers who bought this title also bought…. Not only are they great visuals to provide alternatives to the popular titles, but they also help highlight other titles in the library that may go overlooked. Expanding horizons and introducing new literature to students is such a thrill. Get more information and resources from thebookwrangler.blog
3 Myths About Libraries, Makerspaces and Books
Personalized Professional Learning
Even though makerspaces have been around since 2013, they still have a lot of misunderstandings surrounding them. This confusion can come from administrators, teachers, students and the librarians themselves. Unfortunately, believing these myths can often cause decisions to be made about libraries that are detrimental to the learning process from . In this blog post from renovatedlearning.com (Diana Rendian) clears up some of the myths or misconceptions. ●
Myth 1: Books don’t really serve a purpose in a library makerspace, so we should just get rid of them Books don’t go away in this equation – rather they continue to enhance things.
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Myth 2: If I start a makerspace in my library, students won’t check out books anymore - But that’s simply not true. A lot of this has to do with the procedures you set-up for your makerspace. Think about it this way, if we’re building that love of libraries in them now, they may discover a love of reading down the road, and that makes it all worth it.
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Myth 3: If I start a makerspace in the library, I’ll become or be replaced by a STEM lab teacher - Libraries + Makerspaces + Books = Awesome A big part of this equation is advocating for our role as librarians and making sure that our school sees the value in what we do and the value that our spaces can provide. We need to continue to demonstrate to our school and our communities that the role of a full-time, professional/certified librarian is vital to the success of the school. Because if they don’t understand what it is that we do, it makes it easier to decide to replace or reframe the role of a librarian.
This is just an excerpt of the blog post, take a few minutes and read it in its entirety at renovatedlearning.com Bonus: ● ●
Colleen Graves wrote a great post about how you can support a library AND a makerspace – how it doesn’t have to be one or the other AASL Post: 3 Reasons Why Making and Literacy Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
Program Evaluation Guidelines Topic 1: Advocacy Parkway libraries will strive for clear communication of the role of school librarians.
Personalized Professional Learning
Topic 2: Responsiveness to Community Parkway libraries will be responsive to the community and have a finger on the pulse of each individual building. Topic 3: Instructional & Programming Parkway libraries will support classroom instruction and provide relevant, timely programming to meet the needs and interests of each individual community.
Visit the edWeb Calendar for upcoming free webinars. Now you can also easily search and view over 1300 recorded edWebinars.
Topic 4: Educational Leadership & PD Parkway librarians will strive to be seen as leaders in buildings and will have access to just in time, targeted professional learning for librarians. Topic 5: Library Physical Spaces Parkway libraries are multi-use spaces that are inviting and available for learners of all ages.
Parkway Credit One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars and events, such as Edcamps, SLAA events, makerspace open houses etc. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar or go to an event, then record your participation at tinyurl.com/webinars-events. Remember that district credit is based on the number of clock hours that you participate. Credit is issued as follows: six clock hours will get you .5 credit and 12 clock hours will get you 1 credit.
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