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.
You can have Destiny on your iPhone or iPadSomething “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.
August 26th, 2012. We have had a whirlwind of activity in the library over the last 16 days. All the new books received have been processed and available for checkout and they have been flying off the shelf. We are still waiting for our last container order of nearly 600 books which we hope to receive soon.
We have welcomed the addition of Barbara Boyer from the Elementary School Library to the Secondary School Library. This has greatly expanded the library’s reach to teachers and students. With Barbara’s help the library is fully staffed and ready to assist students and teachers in their reading and information literacy needs.
Over the past 16 days we have over 1500 books and DVD’s checked out. We have seen all the 6th, 7th and 8th grade humanities classes and many of the 9th and 10th grade English classes. These classes have all had a brief into to the library and its procedures and had the opportunity to check out materials. The library has played host to some General Environmental Science Classes and Chemistry classes who search the library for information to complete their scavenger hunts. In addition during this time the library has hosted many teacher and admin meetings and is looking forward to continuing to assist the SAS community in this regard. A note, the library is now tracking visitations and has been averaging over 600 visitors daily since the school year began. We have had one day (Thursday, the first week of school) that we had over 950 visitors to come through the library in one day! This was not all library connected in that Instructional Tech and the Apple center were working to assist students in the Mac rollouts, but if one does the math, and I have, that is nearly 2 visitors per minute between 7 and 4 pm coming to the Library Media Center for assistance. Thats a lot of contact. Bring it on.
We have greatly expanded our non-fiction holdings, our HS and MS fiction holdings, and our DVD collection. We have also rolled out additional magazines for various departments and are looking forward to a great year of reading and researching. Our magazines can be checked out over night. Our books can be checked out for 2 weeks with 1 renewal period per book. We also have our Kindles available. While there are not a lot of titles on the Kindles at this time, we have a plan to work to fill them up. We also have a functional E-Library. While there are very few titles at present, one of our major tasks over the year is to work to make that a robust library that can provide students and teachers an additional avenue for finding that pleasure read.
So SAS, the Pudong Secondary Library is already hard at work and looking forward to another great year. Have you found that next great book to read? If not, drop in on the Library and lets see what we can find for you! TSBoyer
The SAS Pudong Librarians will be traveling to SAS Puxi on Tuesday afternoon for our memorial time in honor of Ellen Nugent. Ellen suddenly and unexpected died this last Monday (May 28th). We are still reeling from her loss. Ellen was a 17 year veteran teacher at SAS. She was someone that the librarians at SAS and in Shanghai depended on. She was a master librarian and a great mentor. She will be greatly missed.
It is June 3. The SAS Pudong Libraries are expecting all books and library materials to be turned to their respective libraries by June 8th. It is time to get your books in. Student and teacher signouts are beginning now.
May 23rd. The library is nearing the end of the year. We are rapidly completing inventories and final checkout times. Please NOTE:— Final Checkout Date is May 25th. All books and materials/equipment need to be in by June 8th.
The SAS Libraries are very close to opening FollettShelf. Watch for more information
May 10th. We are nearing many end-dates for the library. We have already passed our last ILL (Inter-Library Loan) Date. Our Seniors are now in their sign-out stage. In order for seniors to receive a Library “sign-our” they will need to have all their materials returned. This includes Elementary Books, equipment, etc…. The Last Check out day for all non-senior students, parents is May 25. Students will only be allowed to checkout materials after this date if they have a specific teacher requirement to fulfill. This will need to be evidenced by contact with the teacher.
All non-senior students, faculty, staff, parents must have their library materials turned in on or before June 8. Turning in materials early will help the library as we are now in our year end inventory process. The library would like to thank you for your support in this process.
The library this year will not be entertaining summer checkout of materials. If you have questions about this, please come to the library and speak with Mr. Boyer
April 15th, The School year is nearing it’s end, only 8 weeks to go. This is an important time for the library as our our yearly inventory approaches (May). It is also a time when the library starts its end of school checkout dates. For now, all resources for students (non-seniors), parents, and SAS staff need to be back into the library by June 8th. Seniors, you will need to get you materials back in by May 23 for the signout to occur. We will begin running reminders about this in May, but if you have books or materials that you have left sit around, it is time to find them and start the return process.
A lot of work has been done to identify as many of the EARCOS Schools that have “findable” public Library links and add them to this blog’s World Library Page. This content addition is meant as a help for librarians in the region as we work to develop our sites to better serve our patrons. We each have our talents and abilities and I hope each librarian/library listed is open to sharing. If your library would like to be removed from the list, please contact Tim Boyer (SAS Pudong) at timothy.boyer@saschina.org .
The SAS Librarians, with others will be gathering together this Tuesday, June 5th, for a memorial time in honor of Ellen Nugent. Ellen, SAS Puxi Middle School Librarian, suddenly and unexpectedly died this past Monday (May 28th). Ellen was a veteran Teacher/Librarian with 17 years at SAS. I, as many others, depended and counted on Ellen’s knowledge and practical wisdom. This was my first year in a library of my own. I was on the phone weekly, if not daily, talking and running things by Ellen as I worked on budgets, purchasing, author visits and much more. I will remember the many meetings together, the conferences, and Destiny discussions. Thank you Ellen. You will be missed… TBoyer (June 3, 2012)
April 24th, Our Last ILL’s will be sent/received on April 27th. After that day, the SAS Libraries will not fill any ILLs to our sister libraries. This will allow the SAS libraries time to reclaim the books off campus and begin the year end inventory. Time to get your ILL books back in. Thanks.
News from Welcome Page- Transfer on April 15, 2012
The SAS Pudong Librarians are in Bangkok, Thailand attending EARCOS 2012. We are enjoying touching base with Librarians from around the World. Our Presentation, “Book Trailers: Using Cool Tech Tools to Liven Up Literature” is on for Saturday, at 12:15 pm. A link to the EARCOS 2012 session Materials can be found at www.earcos.org
Animal Rescue Took over the Library on the afternoon of March 23. Thank you Animal Rescue for all you do to make our world, especially SAS and Shanghai a better place. See a slide show on the Library Moments Page
March 23, 2012 – James Gurney and his wife Jeanette Gurney have just completed their visit to the SAS Pudong Campus. The Gurneys visit began this past Wednesday, March 21. James worked with two Art/Photography classes in the HS Division and presented a talk about his work as an Artist/Author of “Dinotopia”. On Thursday James Gurney present to our entire Elementary Division, PreK to 5th grade in a series of 4 presentations which focused on his research and work to create images for “Dinotopia” as well as his scientific illustrations. In each presentation he thrilled the audience by drawing and painting on the fly. The art he created will be framed and posted for all to view in the Secondary Library. Today, Friday, the Gurneys presented to 6-8th Graders in a series of talks that discussed how he approaches artistic projects for both his scientific illustration work as well as his personal creative work. A few very lucky students received unexpected “Happy Birthday” gifts from James as he demonstrated various 3-D lettering techniques.
The Secondary Library and the SAS Pudong Community would like to thank the Gurneys for their time and the talents they shared with us. The Gurneys are off to SAS Puxi now to continue their stay.
March 12, 2012 -Kathryn Lasky and Christopher Knight are here. They arrived on our campus today. Kathryn meet with the 7th grade Humanities classes discussing the process she goes through to write. She keyed in on the her thoughts and work that went into her book, “The Last Girls of Pompeii“. She followed her presentation by answering questions posed by students.
Christopher Knight visited the IB Env & Soc classes. He outlined the work that went to two books he collaborated with Kathryn. The books “Monarchs” and “Interrupted Journey”Saving Endangered Sea Turtles” were described and the stories behind their development was discussed. Christopher also described how he got into the business of being a photographer and his early work with National Geographic.
Their Visit will continue through the rest of the week.
Following EARCOS 2012……A lot of work has been done to identify as many of the EARCOS Schools that have “findable” public Library links and add them to this blog’s World Library Page. This content addition is meant as a help for librarians in the region as we work to develop our sites to better serve our patrons. We each have our talents and abilities and I hope each librarian/library listed is open to sharing. If your library would like to be removed from the list, please contact Tim Boyer (SAS Pudong) at timothy.boyer@saschina.org .
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