SAS PD Elem Library Cake-Book Event
April 28th – The SAS PD Elem Library held its second Cake- Book Event. There were 40 Amazing entries from students and teachers. Check out the full image line up at http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/about/library-moments/sas-elem-library-cake-book-event/. Great Job Kimbra and the SAS PD Elem!. Check out Kimbra Power’s Blog post at http://sites.saschina.org/kpower/. To Whet your appetite check out the entries below.
Last Poetry Slam of the Year in the Library
April 25th — The Poetry and Literary Club has held its last Poetry Slam of the year. Students have gathered and shared their thoughts and feelings through Words. Great Job!. The library hopes that the clubs will continue their Poetry activities next year. Same place? Same Time?
Shanghai Librarians Network (SLN) Visits Pudong City Library
April 25th – On Monday, a number of SLN Librarians visited the Pudong City Library. This is an amazing place. They have over 2 million holdings, 10,000 of which are in English. Check out the images from the visit by visiting the video link below.
Link to the Slide Show from the Visit http://videonew.saschina.org/watch_video.php?v=7DN4S2WU3X7Y
SAS Book Poems
April 17th – SAS Students have been hard at work creating new “Book Spine” Poems. Check out their creative use of book titles as the short, powerful poems work to convey important meanings for students. Thanks Again, SAS PX for the Great Idea.
Sorry, The Gallery Below is the second try at this. The First Try took too long to load because of pic size.
Ellis Jacobs Visits SAS Pudong
April 16th, 2014 – Ellis Jacobs, SAS Class of 1949 visited campus today to talk with parents and 9th grade students about his life in China in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Mr. Jacobs, who was born in Shanghai, China first attended a British School in Shanghai. He and his family witnessed the traumatic changes in Shanghai as the city moved from Concession control, to Japanese control during World War 2, the Liberation, and finally the rise of the People’s Republic. Mr. Jacobs became a Shanghai American School high school student beginning in 1946. He spoke of drama he experienced to finish his schooling at SAS as one of 11 final graduating seniors in 1949. Mr. Jacobs was on the front line of change. He spoke to parents and students about the removal of Jewish internationals, the hyper inflations and change in currencies, and about his work to complete his final senior exams at SAS while Shanghai was under gun fire from various factions in and around the city of Shanghai as the Nationalist Government fled to Taiwan. He concluded his presentation by relating how he and his mother were able to leave Shanghai and first move to Canada and then to the United States only to be drafted into the US Army during the Korean War, an experience he related expedited his US citizen process and provided him the benefits and opportunities that that his military service provided him. Shanghai American School is most fortunate to have our past alumni visit and share with us their moving stories. Thanks, Mr. Jacobs for your time, talents, and how you have brought a part of our school’s history back alive.
Ying Chang Compestine Visits SAS Pudong
SAS Pudong was very fortunate today (April 15th) to have the honor of hosting Ying Chang Compestine, the author of “Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier” – (co-authored with her son Vinson Compestine), “Revolution is not a Dinner Party”, “Banquet for Hungry Ghosts” and many more children’s picture books as well as adult cook books. Ying Chang shared her story about growing up in China in the 1970’s with a number of our elementary classes as well as our 6th Grade level. She outlined her history, her writing process, her adventures around the world, and her work in TV with cooking. She detailed with many images her work with her son, Vinson, and their visit to China as they worked develop their book. In her honor, the 6th Grade band lead by Lou Davies, played “Beijing Warriors”. The library will post more of today’s events and pictures soon, but for now… Thank you Ying Chang for Coming to SAS Pudong! and we hope that we can host you again soon!
Gallery Poem Tree
SAS PD Poem Tree Gallery
Select Any image to Begin the Image Carousel. Escape when you are finished
The following are a selection of the Poem Trees created by SAS PD Students. We will be creating more poems on Monday
Book Poems in the Library
Students have been creating book poems by stringing titles of books together. We got the idea from the SAS PX Secondary Library display.
For More Book Poems Go The Book Poem Page
SAS PD Sec Library’s eCollection Links Nearly Complete!
April 3rd — The Job of integrating SAS PD Sec Library’s eCollection is almost complete. By the end of the day, April 4th all of the library’s eCollection Titles will be fully integrated in Destiny. This includes the OverDrive Titles, FollettShelf Titles, Kindle Titles. In addition eTitle Links from the Getty Virtual Library and hosted Titles from Project Gutenburg are beginning to make their appearance. We are growing and improving our ability to use Destiny as our Virtual Hub. Check out our eTitles by searching the Catalog for eBooks and Kindle Titles. A Big Thanks go to Leah and Glenda (Library Assistants) for putting a huge effort into assisting with retooling of our marc records . The SAS PD Librarians (Tim Boyer and Barbara Boyer) would like to thank the Taipei American School Librarians and Larry Gilbert (Destiny WorkShot Trainer and friend) for all their assistance and ideas. We are no where near to where TAS is, but we have made great strides in making our Destiny a complete eLinked hub for our physical and now electronic titles. We have just about caught up with our backload, and are now ready to FLY!
Try out the Catalog (see links on the Home Page) to see what we have been able to do. You can search our Catalog for our Kindles by putting in “PD Sec Kindle” into a title or key word search. Each Kindle Set is now linked in Destiny to Virtual eTitles. In addition, our Kindle Virtual Titles are back linked to their Kindle Sets. If you change your search criteria and search the catalog for ebooks you will now see that we have 488 eTitles. These eTitles are a mixture of FollettShelf Titles, OverDrive eBook Titles, Kindle Titles, Getty Virtual Publication Title Links– an on going project (Art Books). In time our IB EE’s as well as Project Gutenburg eBooks will begin to appear.
We have worked hard to provide fast identification of each type of book and its location (FollettShelf, OverDrive, Kindle, eTitle Link, or hosted eTitles). We have done this by adding Series notations so that patrons do not have to open a title record in order to find out its location. Upgrades to the Destiny Home Page with OverDrive Links and FollettShelf Links are in place. Cross links to Static Blog Help pages are appearing. This will continue to grow and develop as our collection develops and matures. Please bear with us as we learn how to create pointers and links to our eCollection. Drop by the library if you have any questions or if you want assistance in linking your computer or iDevice/ Android device to our Catalog holdings. Remember you always have our catalog at your fingertips anywhere in the world that you have access to a computer or your mobile device.
Come Back often and watch us grow and develop our eCollection!
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