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Yearbook Publishing & Printing Company. CiTi BOCES. Annual Reports – It’s That Time of Year. By Kathryn Roots Lewis As a library supervisor, I love school library program annual reports.

Annual Reports – It’s That Time of Year

They are succinct, providing thoughtful refection and glimpses of the future. For site librarians, annual reports provide a wonderful opportunity to advocate and lay the groundwork for the future. A way to tell your library story! Empire State Information Fluency Continuum - Empire State Information Fluency Continuum: District Guidance and Tools - LibGuides at School Library Systems Association of New York State. Doing Research. Doing Research. EBSCO Support: Searching with Boolean Operators - Help Sheet. Searching with Boolean Operators - Help Sheet Boolean logic defines logical relationships between terms in a search.

EBSCO Support: Searching with Boolean Operators - Help Sheet

The Boolean search operators are and, or and not. You can use these operators to create a very broad or very narrow search. And combines search terms so that each search result contains all of the terms. For example, travel and Europe finds articles that contain both travel and Europe. Notes: Overview - Database Search Tips - LibGuides at MIT Libraries. Skip to main content Overview The key to being a savvy online searcher is to use common search techniques that you can apply to almost any database, including article databases, online catalogs and even commercial search engines.

Overview - Database Search Tips - LibGuides at MIT Libraries

This is important because searching library databases is a bit different from searching Google.The techniques described in this section will enable you to quickly retrieve relevant information from the thousands of records in a database.When you search a database and do not get the results you expect, Ask Us for advice. WorldCat.org: The World's Largest Library Catalog. Media Center / Fun Stuff (Library Games)

University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Order in the Library was developed by four teams of software engineering students in 2002-2004.

University of Texas at Austin School of Information

The product was based on specifications the teams received from Ms. Susan Sanders, an elementary school librarian at Zavala Elementary in Austin, TX. The project was developed in Flash and has enjoyed great popularity thanks to the simplicity of its design and its utility in helping pre-college students learn how to correctly shelve books using the Dewey Decimal system.

S2S Utopia is the umbrella name for a project that grew out of a Software Engineering class taught at The University of Texas at Austin from Fall 1997 through Fall 2006. As part of the course, students were organized into teams of five or six students and applied the techniques of software engineering to a real project, with clients recruited from non-profits and educational institutions. S2S Utopia was hosted by the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1997 through 2007. An Experimental Classification Service. Enter an ISBN, OCLC#, UPC, or ISSN Standard Number:

an Experimental Classification Service

The Lexile® Framework for Reading. Resources. PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovators. The Six Painful Typing Sins: Learn Which Movements Cause Your Typing Pain. The correct alignment of your fingers, hands, and forearms is at the foundation of healthy, pain-free typing.

The Six Painful Typing Sins: Learn Which Movements Cause Your Typing Pain

No exceptions. This means they always need to move as a unit, at the same time, in the same direction, and with the same amount of freedom. FOOTBALL FUN© Rug for After-School Programs. Oswego County BOCES. An Experimental Classification Service. Enter an ISBN, OCLC#, UPC, or ISSN Standard Number: An ISBN is a unique number assigned to an item by its publisher.

an Experimental Classification Service

Each ISBN is a 10 or 13 digit number. Thirteen-digit ISBNs must begin with either 978 or 979. Dewey Decimal Classification System. 600 Technology (Applied sciences) 601 Philosophy & theory 602 Miscellany 603 Dictionaries & encyclopedias 604 Special topics.

Dewey Decimal Classification System

WeatherBug Schools. The WeatherBug Schools Network is the largest weather network in the world.

WeatherBug Schools

More than 8,000 schools across the U. S. operate our easy-to-use WeatherBug Tracking Stations to integrate live, local weather data and technology into classroom learning. This is achieved through WeatherBug Achieve, a web-based teaching tool that automatically embeds live weather readings and images from any source on the WeatherBug Schools Network into pre-made, interactive lessons. The WeatherBug Schools Network is the largest network of weather stations in the world and the only one that provides live weather data. - Download Brochures. New on the Job eCourse/eBook bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for School Librarians - eLearning. Asynchronous eCourse beginning October 5, 2015 and continuing for 6 weeks An ALA Editions eCourse facilitated by Hilda Weisburg Please note: Your purchase at the ALA Store is only Step 1 of a 2-Step Registration process!

New on the Job eCourse/eBook bundle - Books / Professional Development - Books for School Librarians - eLearning

Upon purchase you will receive a registration PDF in the form of a digital download. This PDF contains a link to our Registration page and a password. You must download this PDF and follow the instructions in order to complete the registration. The download link can be found on the final confirmation screen after you complete your purchase, and may also be accessed from your Account History. WordPress.com: Create a free website or blog. Create a Free Website, Online Store, or Blog. Library Studies - LIS568 Reflection on class. Tammy Cummings. Digitalsignage.com. ILL - Inter Library Loans. Tips for Creating Wow-Worthy Learning Spaces. "Look at your learning space with 21st-century eyes: Does it work for what we know about learning today, or just for what we knew about learning in the past?”

-The Third Teacher Does your classroom mirror the rectilinear seating arrangement popular in Sumerian classrooms, circa 2000 BCE? Or is your classroom seating flexible and tricked out with the IDEO designed Node Chair by Steelcase? What classroom design changes can you do on a budget that supports learning? Those questions and more are answered below. The Basics To rethink your student seating arrangement, use Kaplan's floorplanner and try out with names like lasso, the robot, and the big x. Flexibility: Students should be able to easily transition to functional spaces, such as a class library, literacy center, computer area, stage, reading nook, etc. Classroom Floorplanner. Create your dream classroom with Kaplan's Classroom Floorplanner! Our free online classroom design tool can help you arrange your space and see how your favorite Kaplan products fit into the classroom. Enter the exact dimensions of your classroom, and then simply drag, drop, and rearrange products until you are happy with the result.

When you are ready to make your virtual dream classroom a reality, order online or contact your local Kaplan representative for final planning advice, assistance adjusting the list to fit your unique situation, and to discuss options to maximize your budget. The Adventures of Library Girl. Beyond Survival in a School Library. Library of Congress Online Catalog. Titlewave. Mackin - Site - Default.