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IS there anyone who manages more than one elementary school libraries?
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Digital Portfolio tools for h.s. art students
Do your art school's art students use a digital portfolio tool? Our student artists use LiveBinders to organize, store, and display images of their work, but I'm investigating alternatives. I'm looking for user friendly tools that offer the option of
Read more…How to improve circulation numbers in high school?
Would some of you please share with me what you have done to improve circulation numbers at your high school library? Any responses would be greatly appreciated!
Read more…Call for papers
Dear Friends,
International Journal of Digital Library Services (IJODLS) is going to release its Second issue, so you are requested to kindly contribute your original research papers, articles and manuscripts for IJODLS before
Read more…Facebook in the middle school library?
Hello! I am thinking about implementing Facebook in the middle school library to promote events, new titles, programming, and other topics of library interest.
Has anyone already done this? What are the benefits? What are the hurdles? Do you have
Read more…If you had $40K to spend on Library Upgrade?
In this hypothetical situation, imagine that the high school students already have laptops and the library has 10 computers/laptops for MS use. So, how would you spend $40k+ to create a progressive learning commons and MS/HS library?
Read more…Job Opening for Certified Secondary Teacher Librarian
Hi fellow librarians!
After 4 years of living in South Korea, I am leaving my job at Seoul International School. I am sad to go and determined to leave my coworkers with an excellent replacement.
Should you be interested in working with a great sta
Read more…Flex Scheduling
I have proposed to my principal the benefits of an open flex library. Currently I only "teach"
k-2, and that is a connect time or resource time for teachers to have their planning. I feel like all I am doing is checking books in and out and have be
Read more…Book Cleaning
I'm a first year librarian and I had a student bring a book back today - he had gotten a nose bleed and dripped blood on one of the pages. It's completely dried on. Is there any way of cleaning it? If not I'm torn on making him replace it. We normall
Read more…creating tl-teacher form
Hi,
I have just been appointed to my first school as a TL and would like to create a form for teachers - what I can do for them - units of work, what they would like me to emphasise in relation to unit in library classes etc. Has anyone created such
Read more…Library Centers
Has anyone successfully set up centers in their library for elementary school students? If so, what kind of centers do you have? I was thinking of starting centers next year, and having a listening table, a puzzle table, and ...
That's where I'm at
Read more…Print books versus ebooks
Have you found that more of your junior-high and high-school students prefer print books or ebooks?
Read more…Sports Books For 1st Graders
Does anyone know of a good series of books on sports for 1st graders?
Read more…Projecting an iPad2
Hello All, do any of youknow a way to hook up an iPad2 to either a computer or an LCD projector that will show both the home screen and apps etc. I have heard many claims that it can be done, but how do you actually do it? I am not against makin
Read more…Professional Portfolio Tools?
I am looking into tools for our teachers to use to develop their professional portfolios. Do you have any suggestions? Now that teachers will be evaluated on a host of new criteria, we need to have a way to keep track of what we are doing and to be
Read more…Graphic Novels in K-5 library
I am wondering how you circulate your graphic novels. We have created a separate shelving collection as we spend more dollars for this genre that has wide appeal for both genders and all types of readers. Howver, I have not read them all and have n
Read more…Favorite Online Communication Vehicle?
Greetings colleagues! I just posted two HITS and thus am now feeling bold enough to post another TARGET. How do you find and converse with peers online? We have many choices today: Facebook (huge for me because of my many professional contacts), Twit
Read more…Looking for Library Management Software Recommendations
Hello. My wife (a primary school librarian) and I, have been volunteering setting up a library at a local non-profit school for foster children. We are just about done gathering books and setting up shelving, etc., but we need some kind of software
Read more…Ideas for classroom management?
Does anyone out there have any good ideas for managing behavior in the library? Last year we had so much trouble with the Kindergarten and 1st graders, getting the to sit still, take turns, raise their hand, walk, etc.
Our art teacher has a board w
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