SLMS+Minutes+Feb+2010

Minutes from School Librarian Meeting of Februray 23, 2010 held at Winchester (prepared by Denise Daley) __Present__: Daryl Janus, Jean Turner, Amanda Marrano, Pat Disturco, Michele Pava, Sandy Eichelberger, Denise Daley, Shirley Rowland, and Emily Urbanski

-March 17 will be a full-day of staff development for LMS (there will __not__ be a LMS meeting on 3/16, as previously scheduled). If you need a substitute, enter it as “district service.” Daryl will confirm that we will be meeting at “Club Yi” (conference room at Ebenezer). Tentative agenda is as follows: 8:00-10:00 -WorldBook presentation. Daryl is coordinating. 10:00-11:30 -Regular LMS meeting with working lunch 11:30-2:30 -Google Tools presentation. Daryl is contacting BOCES to arrange for a presenter.

-Daryl is working on coordinating opening day sessions for September 2010. Let Daryl know by beginning of May if you have any suggestions for these sessions or if you would like him to coordinate any sessions specific for LMS.

-The request to have “Overdrive” (the software needed to download audio books from the public library) has been submitted and is in the process of being installed on the computers that were specified.

-Some buildings are experiencing sporadic computer problems. Daryl will look into getting a generic student login so that teachers can test software programs at a student access level before presenting it to a class.

-Daryl can get two to four staff development days for LMS to work on the Internet Safety curriculum. It was decided that April 20th and May 26th will be full-day LMS meetings and that the LMS meeting previously scheduled for 4/20 will __not__ be held. If you need to arrange for a substitute use the code for “district service.” Daryl confirmed that we will be meeting at Club Yi. Tentative agenda is as follows: 8:00 – 2:30 – Focus on Internet Safety curriculum. Regular LMS meeting with working lunch.

-We will retain the LMS meeting scheduled May 11th since Patty Labrenz was going to attend. Michele Pava will contact Patty to ask her to talk about the ILL since there seems to be incongruity in the process.

-Michele Pava will check further into a facility that can recycle hardcover books that have been weeded.

-Sandy Eicheleberger updated everyone on SLS news. Most importantly, let BOCES know about any author visits you have scheduled, start thinking about software requests/renewals (the deadline is in May), be sure that you have submitted to BOCES your Union List of Periodicals and all ILL stats.