SLS Weekly Digest
November 4, 2011
http://www.nc3r.org/jlbocessls/
“No skill is more crucial to the future of a child, or to a democratic and prosperous society, than literacy.”
- Los Angeles Times, "A Child Literacy Initiative for the Greater Los Angeles Area"
School Library System Professional Collection Highlight (available via ILL)
A Box Full of Tales: Easy Ways to Share Library Resources through Story Boxes
By Kathy MacMillan
“A Box Full of Tales offers detailed plans for fifty great story boxes, including suggested books,
fingerplays, songs, props, crafts, and sign language. From ah-choo to antlers, from monkey business
to zoo escapes, A Box Full of Tales is an easy way to offer winning, stress-free library programs for
children without the headaches and the hassles. You can make the impossible happen when you
share resources with story boxes!”
The Tech-Savvy Booktalker: A Guide for 21st-Century Educators
By Nancy J Keane and Terrence W. Cavenaugh
“Want to add some pizzazz to your booktalks and motivate young readers? Here are simple but
powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into your presentations, and using
booktalks to launch learning across the curriculum.” Grades 6-12
Annual HOLIDAY Gathering/Meeting of Jefferson Lewis Library Association
The Annual Holiday Gathering/Meeting will be Thursday, December 8th from 5:00-8:00 at Savory
Downtown, Carriage House Washington Street, Watertown. Door Prizes will be given! Bring a friend!
$5.00 per person will be collected at the door. Bring a canned good for the food pantry to receive a
free drink ticket! Please R. S. V. P. by December 1st to Melissa Balk at librarianbalk@gmail.com or
call (315) 649-2281. See attachment in email sent November 4, 2011
Previously Printed
Weeded Material
We will be doing yearly overlays in CIDER. Each library will need to send us a file of their entire
catalog (by doing an export.) The plan is for this to take place each January. With this new policy,
libraries do not need to send their deletes to the SLS, which makes things more efficient for both
the SLS and our libraries. A library's current catalog export will replace the old one (whatever is in
CIDER previous to the overlay) and quarterly updates will continue for ICICILL (the SLS handles
1
this—nothing for libraries to do.) If a different time for sending the export would be better for your
library’s weeding policy/schedule then let the SLS know.
So! You don't need to do anything with the deletes except take them out of your circulation system.
Then, when we ask for the export of your entire catalog in January, you will send it to us and it will be
uploaded as an overlay in CIDER and Voila! your catalog will be updated.
ICICILL Training Is Now On YouTube
The training CD from NNYLN has been broken down into three sections for viewing:
“Introduction and Lending” www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwJHla74rdE
“System Settings” www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX8iQ6wcK64
“Borrowing” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_bi9yQJOw
These links will be on the SLS website under interlibrary loan. Look in the ICICILL section.
* Please remember that you may need to refresh the webpage on the SLS website in order to view
new content.
Gale Newsstand replaces Custom Newspapers in NOVELny
Angela has changed this link on our SLS Database page.
Newspaper coverage available through the NOVELNY initiative will be upgraded on October 25 th with
the replacement of InfoTrac Custom Newspapers with Gale Newsstand. Newsstand includes all of the
content from Custom Newspapers and more. The move to Newsstand should address concerns on
timely updating of content noted in the Custom Newspapers product. The National Newspaper Index
and New York State Newspapers access will remain unchanged.
The title list for InfoTrac Newsstand may be found at: http://www.gale.cengage.com/title_lists/. Find
the fact sheet for Newsstand at: http://www.gale.cengage.com/pdf/facts/ITCN.pdf.
**Libraries registered for NOVELNY and maintaining a separate link to Custom Newspapers will have
to delete that link and create a link to Newsstand (see URL below). The existing link to Custom
Newspapers will remain active until Monday, November 28, 2011. **
If the SLS maintains your library page, please contact Angela so that this link change will be
made to your page before Nov.28th.
School District Performance Improvement RFP
The 2012-2015 School District Performance Improvement Competitive Grant Program Request for
Proposal (RFP) has been posted at http://www.p12.nysed.gov/funding/2012-15perfimp/ . This
competitive grant program will provide grants to public school districts that have demonstrated the
2
most success in increasing student performance, narrowing the achievement gap, and increasing
academic performance among students with the greatest educational needs.
All questions must be emailed to gc12004@mail.nysed.gov no later than close of business November
7, 2011. Questions and Answers will be posted at:
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/funding/currentapps.html no later than November 21, 2011. Applications
must be postmarked by January 13, 2012.
Helpful Websites
ALA Crosswalk Common Core and AASL Standards
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/commoncorecrosswalk/index.cfm
Useful Links
Website
NYLA
AASL
ALA
Website URL
http://www.nyla.org/
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/index.cfm
http://www.ala.org/
SLS Wiki
SSL
E-Blast
http://jeffersonlewissls.wikispaces.com/
http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=52
http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/eblast/
Library/School visits
If you have something special happening in your library please invite me to join in the excitement.
Newsletter contributions are always welcome
If you have a great website or bit of information to share with your colleagues please send me an
email and I will add it to the newsletter.
3