Well, we made it.  It has been a full Fall for the Secondary Library.  This Fall we started off adding nearly 3000 new titles/copies to the library.  This meant that a lot of books needed shifting. Over the space of 2 weeks the library shifted nearly 20,000 books The library completed its merging of the HS and MS school Fiction Titles.  We also reintegrated the Reference section back into the Non-Fiction Dewey Stacks.  These changes allowed the library to continue its move to rearrange seating and learning commons spaces.  We also added to our Kindles by both adding devices as well as adding Titles.  The semester ended with seeing the delivery of the first set of new iPad Minis.  This addition will allow the library to specialize the iPads in the collection to provide critical electronic magazine titles for the school.

Highlights of the Fall

• August
  • Addition of the Container Order New Title and Copies
  • New Student Orientation (both Rising 6th Graders as well as NEW students to SAS)
  • Orientation and Support to New SAS Faculty and Staff
  • Support for the MS Jump Program
  • AR up and running
  • Star Testing Support
  • Fingerprint setup for New Students
  • First Girls Lego Robots Elective
• September
  • HS Research Support
  • HS IB EE Research Support
  • Start of the MS Fall First Lego League in the Library
  • 8th Grade Research
  • MS Turnitin Outreach
  • First Lego League Workshop at SCIS Pudong
• October
  • Scary Story Push as the library got ready for Halloween
  • The Library Dressed up for Halloween with Spookables hanging from the rafters (see Vid Moment)
  • October Break
  • 7th Grade Historical Narratives
  • Dead Word Project with 6th Grade
  • PTSA BBQ Used Book Sale
  • First Annual Community Read Event for MS (Seed-Folks)
  • Hillary Spurling visits SAS
• November
  • Library Training both at AASL and locally in Shanghai with Follett-Destiny
  • CISS Lego Tourney
  • Enjoyed Meeting and playing host to parents for Parent Student Conferences
  • Shanghai Book Traders Come to SAS
  • 7th Grade Middle East Novel Unit
• December
  • OverDrive Push is begun with the hope that OverDrive will be up and running by Chinese New Year
  • The Library worked to support HS students by playing host to almost 4000 patrons Dec 9-13th.

This Fall we played host to 59,084 patrons (Door Counter) and circulated 16,279 materials.  Our Kindle checkouts increased to 357 circulations and our Magazine Circulations increased to 356.

The Librarians would like to thank our Great Staff (Glenda and Leah) for all their support this fall.  We could not have done it all without you.  

Welcome to the new SAS PD Secondary Library Blog.  This blog will be developing rapidly as I work to shift materials and appearance to our new Blog provider.  Please bear with me as I work to complete the change.  TSB Dec 9th, 2013

NPR has just release its  “not a book list” list for 2013.  The link to the cite is at http://apps.npr.org/best-books-2013/ This is an awesome idea. The list opens in a really cool way.   Thanks NPR