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Welcome Back Students
Aug 13th- Tomorrow is the first day of Classes for students for the new school year. Welcome back everyone! The Library has a new entrance sign as well as quick link QR Codes. See Below. If you need help connecting to OverDrive come on in and we can get you connected to our eBook platform. We have lots of great new books (over 1000) for your reading pleasure. Drop in, the SAS Pudong Secondary Library is ready to help you make this a great school year.
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Welcome Back to School SAS
August 6th- Welcome back to School!. Monday new and returning teachers will pour into to SAS Pudong Campus to get the school year started. While new teachers and admin have been on campus for the last week, tomorrow everyone will be together for reunions and new beginnings as we get ready for students. On Aug 10th, the Secondary Library will have a table out with the rest of the various organizations to help new students and parents connect into school. Classes will begin on August 14th. While it is hot an humid outside in Shanghai, the Secondary Library’s air con is working so come and cool off in the library, checkout all the new books that came over the summer and let the library staff help you start your year off right with that perfect end of summer-start of school read.
Checkout the Library QR Codes below for quick access to important Library links.
See you real soon in the Library! (tsb-8/6/17)
OverDrive Links Added
May 31st- A lot of work today in the SAS PD Sec Library. Today was the first day of high school exams and we had lots of students in and out of the library. A large part of the day besides working with retrieving resources and working to set the library up for summer break was the retooling of our SAS OverDrive Links (http://saschina.lib.overdrive.com/). The Destiny Home page was edited to update the OverDrive Catalog, Online Help, and Quick Start-Up Links (http://destiny.saschina.org/common/servlet/presenthomeform.do?l2m=Home&tm=Home). In that our school blogs are being discontinued, the Quick Start-Up Link Help were moved to this blog with cross links to Destiny. Note: the image is from OverDrive Help Files
16-17 School Year Nearing End – Lots to Do
The 2016-17 school year is nearing its end. As we near the close of school this year there are “millions” of things to do in the Library. For the last month we have been shifting shelves and re-arranging book genres. New shelves have been added. Summer Reading Lists have been placed out for middle school students and we are closing out and transferring material from school blogs and wikis to other storage areas sites.
The next two weeks until school closes are full. This weekend is SAS Graduation. Next weekend is China National Robotics Tourney. Barbara and I are taking our SAS PD Middle School FLL team and I am supporting the SAS PD FTC Team on Jun 2-4 in Shanghai. I will upload pictures as they come available
The library is on full court press to get all the books and materials back in before closing day on June 9th. We will be turning on daily overdue notices beginning Monday through the end of school. We have removed all the old magazines from the displays and catalog. We are still working to weed the collection which is always a difficult task in preparation for getting new books in August.
In terms of news feeds from the SAS PD Secondary Library–I have moved more to using Twitter as a “Shout-Out” about what is happening in our library (SAS Pudong Secondary Library). You can follow the Library Twitter Feed @SASPDLib or you can follow my personal Twitter Feed @tsboyer. You can follow Barbara Boyer for Middle School Library News @barbaraboyersas. (tsb 5/27/17)
It’s Time for Scary Books
October 17, 2017 – The Secondary Library is working up to Halloween. Check out the scary/horror/monster books hidden in the green covers.
Library News Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 – Welcome back to school. We have one full week completed and the library is fully functional. All the new books this year have been processed and ready for checkout. The new fiction titles have been generized. The library has already played host to many classes and meetings as we work to support the reading and information skills of our students at SAS.
The SAS Secondary Library has connected with:
- 6th and 8th Grade classes to connect them to changes in the library, especially the Genreized Fiction Collection
- MS Parents at the MS Parent Coffee to assist them connecting to OverDrive, our eBook platform
- 9th and 10th Grade EAL classes to assist in NoodleTool Start-up
- 9th and 11th Grade English classes to familiarize them with the Library collection and provide them book check-out time
- AfterSchool supervised study/work time in the library. As a note, the library has extended our hours from 7:30-5:20 M,T,W,F to support student and faculty/staff needs
As SAS makes it transition to Schoology as our LMS, the library will be evaluating how and what can be moved. While the move to Schoology provides SAS great advantages, the library will need to look at how the move changes the way we can reach out and broadcast information about the library and its programs to the greater school community. We in the library look forward to these challenges.
Finally, the Pudong Secondary Library looks to take fuller advantage of it LibGuide Platform with LibGuides, LibWizard, and LibAnswer/Chat this year. Stay tuned for more information as we continue to roll out these library tools.
Welcome Back to School – 2016-17
Aug 2nd – Welcome back to school SAS. The library is rapidly opening up and is ready for business. Drop by for your reading and informational needs. We can assist you with finding a book, checking our kindles, accessing your OverDrive and much, much more.
If you need help with Turnitin, NoodleTools, LibGuides, JStor and the rest of our Database Porfolio just drop in and we will be glad to help.
Best Wishes for a Great New School year from your Secondary Library Team — Tim, Barbara, Glenda, and Leah
SAS Pudong FLL Team in St. Louis
April 27th. The SAS FLL team undertook a walkabout Tuesday morning down to the St Louis Arch. Today the meet begins with registration and Pit setup. It will be a long day of setup and practice. Pictures coming this evening.
SAS Pudong Heads to the First World Championships
SAS PD is off To the First World Festival–Today SAS Pudong Lego World Festival Team begins its trip to the Lego World Festival Championships held in St. Louis, Missouri. From Left to Right Alex Chen(10th), and Owen Liang(10th), Kevin Xu(8th), and Will Xu (10th) have been working very hard since February to prepare for this amazing opportunity. We will be not only representing our school, but we will be 1 of three teams representing the country of China.
Together, with two other SAS Pudong First Lego Teams, this team undertook a research project that looked at the way trash is collected and processed out of SAS Pudong. They have created and shared their research findings and will be taking their presentation to show the judges at the Championship. They have completely retooled their EV3 robot competition missions and on their last practice (Saturday) they broke 600 points on the competition board. They are still madly working to complete 1 additional board mission and if they get it and all the stars align they have the potential to break 700 pts which would be an awesome achievement. They have developed and will be presenting a Lego Core Values Presentation and a Design presentation to judges as well at the competition.
The Actual Competition runs from Wednesday, April 27th to Saturday, April 30th. Our SAS team is one of three teams representing China. Yes, the students and coaches (Barbara Boyer, Kevin David, and Tim Boyer) are feeling the pressure but the opportunity to compete and see other teams from around the world in the 4 First Levels (First Lego Jr, First Lego League, First Tech Challenge, and First Robotics Competition) is something that the coaches and most of these students have been working at for the last 4 years.
The Team Activities will be out on Twitter, or you can also check out our blog posts at
- http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/
- http://sites.saschina.org/pdlibrary/sas-fll-2015/
- or follow us using #SASPDFLL
You can follow on twitter @SASPDLIB. Search this #SASPDFLL to see our progress.
You can also follow the Live Feed at the site below.
The Championship will be live streamed at http://www.firstchampionship.org/watch-championship-live
A HUGE thanks to all the volunteers, Faculty and Staff at SAS Pudong that have worked to make this all happen.
On Your Mark… Go
Feb 29th — It was the Library 500 today as Mr. Nicolai brought his elementary scooter class to race around the stacks. Spectators report all participants made it through the course safely. All “accidents” were ones that participants could walk away from. Thanks Mr. Nicolai for making a Great Leap Day in the Library.
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