The following is a listing of the old News Posts from the Fall 2013 School Year

November 11th-15. This is a crazy week in the library. All the staff is attending library conferences or workshops during parts of the week. On Friday, the Library becomes MUN Central as SHASMUN takes over. SHASMUN is our school’s MUN Middle School Model UN Conference. The library is working to support the conference. Country Flags have been placed on all the ceiling lights and by Friday the library will feel like the United Nations. Pictures will follow
Mrs. Boyer, Mrs Tsou, and Ms Garcia will be attending the Follett Destiny Workshop at CISS on Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Boyer will be attending the annual AASL Library conference in Hartford, CT beginning Wednesday – Sunday.
Make sure to remember that November the 11th is Remembrance Day. The Library Destiny Home Page has a copy of John McCrae’s battle field poem, ”In Flanders Field”. The library has pulled many of its books on and about war as part of this Remembrance, lest we forget.
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It is Halloween in the Library. We have the place all Spooked up. Make sure to drop by and check out a book and get a treat as well. The offer is over once Halloween is past. A Halloween Video of the Library is posted on the Library Moments Page.
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October 23-Something “Fun” for you and your students – Our library catalog in your pocket–To put SAS’s Destiny Quest (library catalog) on your iphone/ipad or android device.1. First down load the Destiny Quest App from the App Store. It is free.2. Second, when the app is loaded you have to input the SAS’s Destiny URL – It is http://destiny.saschina.org
3. Next you will have to select the library that you are a member (Pudong Secondary)4. Finally you will have to log into Destiny Quest by inputting your id number from your id card (student or staff id number for your login name and login password)5. You are done. Your smart device can search the catalog, put holds, create book lists and bookshelves and all the other fun stuff your Destiny Quest Login can do.==========================================
Aug 22- All our patron data has now been updated for the new school year. We have had many books going out and in. Some of the books, however, are staying out a bit longer hand the checkout period. We will begin the automated overdue notices next week. Please work to return your books on time. Remember you have the ability to renew a book 1 time if you log into your “Destiny” using your id number as you login name and login password. If you really need a resource longer than this, come in to discuss the situation with one of the librarians.
Coming Soon – Legos has returned to the Library. First Lego League’s 2013 Challenge will be released on Aug 27. Mr. Boyer, Mrs. Boyer, and Mr. David will be coaching. Team development packets were passed out this week. For more information about First Lego League and SAS please see Mrs. Boyer in the Library
Parents, you can checkout materials too. Drop by the library. The same checkout policies exist for you as for your students. Please Note, however, we limit the DVD checkouts, to 3 at a time for parents. Our DVD’s are teaching DVD’s and our teachers really expect them to be in the library– watch them then get them back in as soon as possible.
The Serials (magazines) issues have been updated. You can search the catalog for magazine issues by changing the “material type” to serial. Parents and students can check out magazines. Just make sure to return them on time.
Welcome Back to School for the 2013-14 School Year. The Secondary library has been hard at work over the last week preparing for teachers and students. The new books ( 2000+) are in. We have been checking out materials already. Drop by to check out the new materials and get that first look at the new arrivals.
New this year.
We have Merged the MS and HS Fiction sections into 1 large fiction collection. The HS books are still labeled HS but the 2 collections are now 1. See library staff if you need assistance
We have increased our FollettShelf collection. Information about how to access this will be develop shortly, but for now, you can access our FollettShelf Ebook collection by logging in to Destiny (use your SAS ID), changing the catalog search criteria to ebooks. Once you have found a book to your liking, you can select it and either read it online (all) or download it to your computer (some). You can also add FollettShelf to your iPad. For more information, drop by the library and we will help.
We have greatly increased our Kindle collection. Once all the kindles have been processed, we will start loading content. If you have a book that you need to read check with the library staff, we will see if we can load it on to a school kindle for you to check out. For more information see a librarian.
We have maintained the SAS Database collection. We saw increased use of JStor as well at the Literary Databases. If you have database needs please drop by the library to see a librarian. We are more than glad to help.
Finally, we had a banner year last year with our library use and circulation. We had over 110,000 entrances to the library with over 41,000 resource circulations. This was a big jump over previous years and due in great part to MS reading giants and the 9th and 10th grade independent reading programs. Keep up the great work.