Friday Focus
NEISD Library Services
Friday Focus-Week of September 9-13, 2019
In this Friday Focus:
Campus Highlights - Oak Meadow ES, Roosevelt HS, Krueger MS
Librarians Badging Up
Destiny Themes
Britannica School
Spending Deadline
- Reminders & Updates
Campus Highlights
Royal Ridge ES
Looking for call number clues to earn our Library Detective Badges!
Krueger MS
Northern Hills ES
We’re gearing up for Dot Day! 2nd grade used AR to make their dot creations come to life. The students loved it!
Librarians Badging Up
Marie Arce - Stuebing Ranch ES, has earned the Hour of Code badge and the Librarian Collaboration badge. Marie has collaborated with Sarah Flores to plan mini inquiry research lessons and units for first grade. Marie is also benefiting from collaboration with other Madison cluster librarians, stating, "Being able to collaborate with multiple elementary librarians has allowed me to grow in this field." Great work, Marie!
Destiny Themes
Directions for adding a school logo and changing themes are located on the Procedure Manual.
Britannica Fundamentals
Britannica has created a new resource for its youngest learners, called Britannica Fundamental. Students can access this resource by selecting Britannica Elementary and scrolling to the bottom of the page. Britannica Fundamental is the purple cloud with the little otter inside. This resource provides read alouds, opportunities to explore habitats around the world, simple math concepts and a drawing tool. Britannica Fundamentals works on chromebooks, ipads, and VDI computers.
Additional Guest User Logins Available Now
If you would like to have additional Guest Logins added to self-checkout stations, laptops used for signing in to your library, or additional circulation desktop computers, please put in a Help Desk ticket. Email Terri your Help Desk ticket number and a technician will be sent to set up the additional logins. Please avoid using your personal credentials on computers used by other library volunteers, staff and students.
For Guest login info, navigate to the the Destiny section of the Procedure Manual and click on LOGIN INFO.
1st Spending Deadline is quickly approaching
Spend 1/3 of library book budget by September 20th. Remember the sooner you submit your list and transfer funds, the sooner your books will arrive!
Librarian Evaluation Goals
Librarian Self-Report Goals
How Do I Navigate to the September Timeline?
How To Enter My Goals directly in Strive & How To Upload My Librarian Self Report in Strive?
Reminder & Updates
September Timeline - Please review the timeline for "to-do's"
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Follett Title EZ
If you are interested in subscribing to TitleEZ to have recommended books automatically sent to your library, check out the information found here. Don't hesitate to reach out to Jorge Garza
(jjgarza@follett.com).
FollettLearning - TitleEZ TitleEZ Brochure TitleEZ Order Form
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Additional Database Pages by Subject & Type
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