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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!
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!
PS. Remember You can subscribe to the SAS PD Library Blogs and to both Barbara Boyer and Tim Boyer’s Twitter accounts (Timothy Boyer @SASPDLib, #SASPDLib). FaceBook is coming this summer, so watch for it.
Blue Fountain Book Sale at the Library
Blue Fountain Books (http://bluefountainbooks.com/) has set up a Spring Book Sale outside the Library. Drop by and check them out. The Sale will run from Today (Tues Apr 1st-Friday Apr 4th). Pictures Coming Soon!
Blue Fountain Books
Dr. Ross Todd visits SAS Pudong
Wow! Dr. Ross Todd of Rutgers University dropped by the SAS Pudong Libraries this morning. We were honored and touched by his willingness to come and see both the Elementary Library (Kimbra Power) and the Secondary Library (Barbara and Tim Boyer). Dr. Todd had just completed a two day ACAMIS 2014 presentation to librarians at SCIS – Pudong where we were inspired to continue our work as librarians and to work to push the envelope as Teacher-Librarians in the ever changing world of Information Literacy. Dr. Todd stressed the point that we are needed and that we must work to do what it takes to assist in the creation of independent deep thinkers and readers. Thank you Dr. Todd for your time and efforts to support librarians and librarianship around the world. Thank you so much for dropping by the SAS Pudong Libraries.
At ACAMIS 2014 with Ross Todd
In the second day of the ACAMIS 2014 Library Strand. It is great to listen and interact with other librarians from around the China area. The info that Ross Todd has been good to hear especially in relation to how important it is for Library to be fully involved in student’s educational lives.
Mrs Boyer’s 100+ Book List
Mrs Boyer, SAS Pudong Secondary Librarian has created a 100+ Must Read list for Middle School students to have under their belts before they reach high school. This list has many of the classics but many others as well that are just plain fun. Check out the list on her Library Blog at http://sites.saschina.org.pdmslibrary and look under the Great Books to Read tab.
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