For the new school, I have been ordering books since last July/August. AND I am not done yet! We did not do a start up collection provided by a vendor. Often, they give you books they don’t want in their system anymore and things we don’t necessarily need. This process has been very different than [...]
LibraryThing has been an invaluable tool for us and with the redesign of the fiction area this year, it has been amazing. We love to post the widgets on our webpage. See an older post about how Blue Valley West High School Library uses Librarything.
As I mentioned back in November, I am opening a new library at our new high school (August 2010). In the last post, I listed more questions than answers – so after a few months (I can’t believe it is April!) I moved forward, hopefully answering some of the earlier questions. 1. What does it [...]
Cloud Computing exists as if we were Peanuts characters with a giant cloud following us. What exists in my cloud? *Google Docs/Apps *Wiki *iTouch – apps *Slideshare *Libguides *Scrapblog *Voicethread My list keeps getting longer of places I store information and collaborate with others. To enhance my skills in this cloud, I twitter’d a Google [...]
This semester we did something I never thought would happen. We rearranged the fiction shelves to reflect their genre. I know – some people think I am crazy. I was extremely hesitant when I heard the idea from a middle school librarian at the end of last year. But as I thought more about [...]
