SLMS+Minutes+Mar+2011

**  March 15, 2011   ** **  East Middle   ** Min taker: Haley Burakowski Budget à SLS à Opening at Clinton à Clinton E-Readers à World Book Vendor Demonstration à John Gunmmoe, john.gummore@worldbook.com *Know- visual dictionary, great animal information, has pictures for each section and videos, interactive diagrams *Treks Travels-has a reading passage, a game, and a video for each place the character Trek visits *Story Corner-reading done by highlighting each word, have Nursery Rhymes, Sing-a-longs, and Story Corner leveled reading (put your cursor over a story to see its level) *Early World of Learning has no search options ||  *basic text articles *smaller amount of searchable text *can click on listen button to have the text read in many different languages one word at a time *video and multimedia options are list on the left hand side after topic has been searched for *double click a word to have its definition given *citation given in MLA format at the end of the article ||  *has option to search World Book Student and Kids at same time *more options offered in search, i.e. historical tab that lets you see every article ever written by World Book on the subject *related information tab on the right allows you to click Encyclopedia and see a list of all articles on the topic that are related *Today’s Headlines option is available, posts current news from // PBS // ||  *geared toward gifted and talented in elementary and low level readers in secondary *developed for visual learners and text leveled between Student and Advanced World Book *gives more search hits that Kids but less than Advanced *Question Videos-students ask experts in a variety of fields questions that are then answered in short clips, can be found under World Book Explains on the main page, are categorized by subject and can be searched *articles are read aloud one ** sentence ** at a time *life skills section- provides information on how to pay a mortgage etc. ||  *Research Tool-on the main page there is a link to World Newspapers, shows current newspaper articles from papers across the world *Teaching with Documents-lessons provided with a primary source given and then built around it, ex. of Roosevelt’s letter to the DRA giving up her membership, related articles provided in links off to the right side *In the Headlines-link on the main page, has articles from // Reuters // *E-Books- classic books are searchable and can be read online, literary criticisms are included in the search || Databases à Lesson Share à ASI à Follet Meeting à Statistics à General News à
 * Library Meeting Minutes   **
 * we are using the Reserve Fund to cover the cost of the budget
 * Daryl supplied each librarian with a copy of the budget for 2011-2012
 * West Seneca will be matching the adopted budget from last year, the contingent budget will match the proposed budget for 2011-2012
 * Emily will be taking over the role of SLS coordinator
 * thank you to her for taking on the role and to Sandy for her great service
 * with Jean Turner’s retirement an opening will be available at
 * this opening will be first offered to all district librarians, please submit for transfer if you are interested
 * Jessica provided a handout detailing the use of E-books in the classroom, the article was from the March 2011 School Library Journal
 * Spoke on the influence of SMART board technology in the classroom and how librarians are a great resource for solid websites and databases to use
 * The elementary schools have access to a level of World Book and Secondary has a different level
 * Currently the reading of text option is not available in World Book Advance at the secondary level, to upgrade the subscription would be $.22/student
 * Sheets were provided by John with all of the usernames and passwords for the district
 * John is willing to come in to individual schools to show teachers the options available through World Book
 * John reviewed the five World Book Databases West Seneca subscribes to, see the table below for the features of each that he highlighted
 * **  Early World of Learning   ** || **   World Book Kids   ** || **   World Book Student   ** || **   World Book Discover   ** || **   World Book Advanced   ** ||
 * *three parts to the database-Know, Treks Travels, Story Corner
 * In May we will be deciding which databases to continue next year
 * Michele Pava showed a research project that was created with her 8th graders
 * Students were required to read a historical fiction novel and then research three topics inspired by their reading
 * The students produced their own research books and a bibliography
 * Michele graded the Works Cited and note taking parts of the final product
 * Michele Pava received a scientology publication that was package as a news magazine
 * Denise spoke on the Follet meeting
 * The discussion focused on E-books and currently Follet E-books cannot be downloaded
 * Follet is waiting for a common format to be created so that the books can be downloaded to any reader device
 * You can currently decide checkout dates for Follet E-books, take notes in them, and highlight the text
 * As a district we will be able to add a digital content section to the catalog, it involves having a discussion on what is considered “digital content”, it was suggested having Stephen Yi, Jeff Pacer, and Patty Lebrenz come together and discuss how we could make the databases and e-books searchable through Destiny
 * Erie 1 BOCES still needs statistics from some of the libraries in the district, please send them on ASAP
 * Rosalia won the East Regional Reading and Technology Award, she will be going to Florida May 7th-12th to receive her award