SSHS Library Newsletter
Autumn, 2015
WHAT'S NEW IN THE SSHS LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER?
Students have been busy learning new info literacy skills!
- conduct advanced searches in Google
- filter their online searches to find academic research
- evaluate websites, to ensure credibility and reliability
- create a Weebly website
- save and share important resources in the cloud using Symbaloo
- use the print resources of the library
- conduct research using the Big 6 model
- write MLA style citations
- use our library catalog program and build a reading and research list though this resource
- access research in our Gale databases
- electronically highlight and take notes in articles from our databases and then download and share this research with teachers
Library Snapshot
During the 1st quarter of school, the library
- circulated ~1200 library books
- circulated over 7000 textbooks
- hosted 108 classes between 9/1 - 10/16
Current Top 10 Books at the SSHS Library
- An Abundance of Katherines
- Crank
- Burned
- The Maze Runner
- Afterimage by our own Rick Geiger!
- Glass
- Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
- The Selection
- Tilt
- If I Stay
What can the library do for you?
Most teachers are not aware of the various resources that the library can provide for them and for their students. This series will highlight at least one new resource each newsletter.
This article focuses on teacher-librarian collaboration. If you are considering creating a new lesson that incorporates any form of research, I would love to work with you. You provide the subject-area expertise, and I can help provide the research resources and/or the information literacy lessons that will help augment your lesson.
One option is for us to work together to design a complete CCSS aligned research unit. Another option is for you to describe an upcoming lesson that you are developing, and then I can:
- provide a list of electronic and print resources for this lesson
- create an electronic pathfinder or an electronic resource list of websites that students may access online for researching this topic
- teach an info lit. skill that students need for the lesson (ie. writing a citation, copyright issues, digital citizenship)
- demonstrate how to use various web 2.0 tools (ie. Prezi, Weebly, school databases, various Google and Google Drive resources), and many more.
Our students are bombarded with information. Unfortunately, they often are not equipped to be discerning users of this information. Many of them go straight to Google for their information needs and choose one of the first sites that covers their topic. At SSHS, we want to prepare all of our students to find quality, academic research for all of their current and future research needs. Let’s work together toward that goal.
For further information and/or to set-up a time to meet together to create a lesson, call or email Carol Forbes.
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LIBRARY QUIZ (The first person to correctly ID all of these landmarks wins a prize.)
Santa Susana Library Media Center
Email: carol.forbes@simivalleyusd.org
Website: http://santasulibrary.weebly.com
Location: 3570 Cochran Street, Simi Valley, CA, United States
Phone: (805)520-6800
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