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Library Professional Development Day August 8, 2013 Lakewood High School. Welcome Sandy Storey, Library Media Specialist Lakewood HS . Library Professional Development Day August 8, 2013. 8:00 AM Sign-in and Refreshments
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Library Professional Development Day August 8, 2013 Lakewood High School
Welcome Sandy Storey, Library Media Specialist Lakewood HS
Library Professional Development DayAugust 8, 2013 8:00 AM Sign-in and Refreshments 8:30 AM General SessionWelcome – Sandy Storey, Lakewood High School BookFLIX, PreK-3 eBooks – Lori New Ebsco databases – Greg General Updates - Noreen 9:20 AM Sarah Kepple – CCPL – Get in Touch with Literacy 10:00 AM *Break* 10:15 AM Susan Yutzey, OELMA President - SLMS Performance Evaluation 11:15 AM Lunch Please visit the Touchlab during lunch to explore devices and apps 12:15 PM Marcia Barnhart - Librarians as Literacy Lifesavers: Providing Critical Common Core Support for Content Area Teachers 3:15 PM Adjourn
Welcome to Scholastic BookFLIX • Online literacy resource • Grades Pre K – 3 • Helps early readers develop and practice reading skills • Introduces youngest students to knowledge and exploration!
Addresses: And Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee • To meet the Common Core State Standards, half of the reading materials should be nonfiction even at the youngest grades • Informational texts should offer meaningful curriculum knowledge to students • Educators and librarians are being asked to provide “texts that build knowledge coherently within and across grades
Builds a love of reading • Features fiction &nonfiction titles based on nine themes • Engages with ‘Watch the Story’ feature • Read nonfiction eBook titles independently or read-along • Includes fun and informative activities • Choose a theme… then…
Watch the Story! • Read-Along feature highlights each word on the screen as it is narrated in the video • Reinforces reading skills including fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension
Read the book • Read independently or read-along as each word is highlighted on the screen • Introduces students to real-world facts while helping to build content-area knowledge
Puzzlers • Interactive • Educational • Reinforces key vocabulary
Meet the author • Learn more about the author of the story on which the video is based • Listen or Read • Links take reader out to web to learn more!
Explore the web • Editorially selected • Age-appropriate web-links
Lesson Plans • Teaching activities • Aligned to national language-arts and content-area standards • Available as printable PDF
Curriculum Correlations Scroll up to locate the new CCSS standards. Scroll down to find other Ohio standards
Educator Resources • TIP: Title Browse ‘sort by’ feature provides sort options, including Grade level and Lexile! Tip: Use Title Browse
Ebsco’s Literary Reference Center For High School Students
Literary Reference Center Notice text-to-speech feature Results: Bios (15), Literary Criticism (37), Plot Summaries (17), Reviews (151), Interviews (4), Reference Books (26), Magazines (225)
Literary Reference Center Simple search: Advanced search: No sign of Lexiles.
Literary Reference Center Note on Full-Text Classics: some can be downloaded in full; others, chapter by chapter (Ugh!) Merriam-Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature New Oxford American Dictionary MLA, Chicago Manual of Style, and APA Research Guide = step-by-step approach to writing your paper Literary Reference Center Glossary
Literary Reference Center Content: • 35,000 plot summaries, synopses, and overviews. • 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism • 252,000 author biographies • 450 literary journals • 693,000 book reviews • 78,400 classic and contemporary poems • 19,700 classic and contemporary short stories • 6,600 author interviews
Ebsco v. Gale For those of you who subscribe to Gale’s Literature Resource Center, feedback about how it compares to Ebsco’s Literary Reference Center would be appreciated. If you’d like to present on the strengths and/or weaknesses of both at a future Liaison meeting, please let us know.
Browse: Foreign Policy > Israel & the Palestinians Points of View Text to Voice Each topic has four proprietary articles, written by experts in the field: Overview Point Counterpoint Guide to critical analysis
Points of View Click Detailed Record for Lexile. Additional information by source
Points of View Sidebar links: charts, tables, etc. Territorial history Suicide bombings U.S. Aid to Israel After reading the three essays, explore links under What the experts sayon the sidebar. Check out the Research Guides, too!
Points of View Enhances students’ ability to read critically, develop their own perspective, and write or debate an effective argument.
Also useful for conventional searches on socio-political topics 9-12 Points of View Points of View Hover over icon for preview w/ abstract. Points of View not the same as Student Resource Center 9-12
Comparison with Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints As of July 2013
Ebsco v. Gale For those of you who subscribe to Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints, feedback about how it compares to Ebsco’s Points of View would be appreciated. If you’d like to present on the strengths and/or weaknesses of both at a future Liaison meeting, please let us know.
From Ebsco – Consumer Health Complete For (Middle &) High School Students
Consumer Health Complete Sample titles from the first 20 results: • A systematic review and meta-analysis of micronutrient intakes during pregnancy in developed countries • Effect of iron intervention on growth during gestation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence: a systematic review with meta-analysis • Discussion from the 24th Marabou Symposium: Nutrition and the human microbiome • Better newborn vitamin D status lowers RSV-associated bronchiolitis in infants • Parenteral nutrition in the intensive care unit • Early postnatal nutrition and programming of the preterm neonate
Science Reference Center Surprise! INFOhio puts this resource at the middle and high school level, but even elementary students can use it.
Science Reference Center Good for math, too!
Science Reference Center 356 hits for science experiments at the K-5 level.
Science Reference Center Content Includes: • 195 Full-Text Science Periodicals • 732 Full-Text Science Reference Books • 23 Full-Text Science Encyclopedias • 812 Full-Text Science Essays • 2,567 Full-Text, Full-Length Biographies • 61 Science Animations • 37,260 Science Images • 519 Science Videos
Sirsi Workflows Updates The Sirsi upgrade to version 3.4.1.3.1183 was completed in June. To check whether the software has been updated, navigate to the Sirsi Help MenuAbout and verify the build date (2013-04-15) and version number.
Sirsi Workflows Updates Reminder: Recommended Installation Type NCC recommends that libraries install Sirsi Workflows under each login to the computer. Details on the upgrade were sent via email on July 1 to all library staff.If assistance is needed, please open a Service Desk request or contact us via phone or email. Report file path missing? See: http://www.nccohio.org/library/files/report_file_path_ncc.pdf
Sirsi Workflows Bug When adding multiple items, the cursor isn’t automatically placed in the item ID field. Workaround: • Right-click on the Call Number/Item Main wizard and select Properties • On the Defaults tab, find the section labeled Holds Tab • Uncheck the "Show holds" box • Save Properties if this setting should be saved for future Workflows sessions
Sirsi Workflows Enhancements • Help Format – new look
Sirsi Workflows Enhancements • Inventory Item Wizard – Set properties for audible alerts • Instructions available from the Sirsi Manual: http://www.infohio.org/Documents/SirsiManual/SirsiJava/S14.3InventoryStep3.doc
Sirsi Workflows Enhancements • Items with bills can be removed from Sirsi
Sirsi Workflows Enhancements • Claims returned alerts can be set under Check In properties
Sirsi Workflows Enhancements • Anyone using Sirsi overdue notices? If so, when emailing a scheduled report to patrons, the email subject line can now be customized. (The INFOhio CIR: Overdues and Notices report already had this functionality.)