CASLS+Newsletter+Vol.2+N.1

**Welcome Back!**
 * September 13, 2011**

**Ronda's Corner** We have several new members to our group, so I decided to recycle a "Ronda's Corner" from a previous newsletter about using the Union Catalog. If you have any questions, please just email or call me. I'd be happy to help you.

**I decided to write on the topic of "Where can I find that book?" The methods listed below are mostly when you are looking for one or two copies. You can use this same method for class sets, but it is time consuming and can get confusing. There are easier ways that I will save for next week's issue.** __From CASLS schools__

==== Click on the “BOCES: icon. In the upper right corner you will see “sign in”. Your username and password is your school holding code preceded by “ca” (**this must be in lower case**). Example: Allegany/Limestone Middle High is “ca021”. If you do not know your holding code, on the first page of the site, there is a link at the bottom click on “Regional SLS Codes by BOCES.” T**his link shows the “ca” in caps, but you need to** **use lower case.**You can then search by Title, Author, and Subject. When the title list comes up, click on “details” to find out who owns it. Then click on “Request ILL” and complete the form with your name and comments. Click the submit button and you have sent it to the school of your choice. ====

If you didn't have any success finding your title there, then try this:

If none of our schools own the title, check Erie 1, Erie 2, or Orleans Niagara.
To do this: click on the preferences from the “sign in page”. On the left, you will see “preferences”.

Check the boxes of the other school library systems and click submit and then you will search all the SLS at the same time.

If Erie 1, Erie 2 or Orleans Niagara own the title, PLEASE put the following information in the comment section of the request:

//Please reply if sending and forward the book to your SLS office to be sent to Ronda Turner - CA BOCES SLS -1825 Windfall Rd.- Olean, NY 14760//

Please enter ronda_turner@caboces.org in the CC line just below the comment box. Click submit

The book will arrive at the CASLS office. I will then forward it on to you through the BOCES mail. When you are finished with it, you simply return it to me at the CASLS office and I'll forward it back to the lending library.

Any title not listed in either of the above catalogs**:**

Send the title, author and ISBN, if available, to me in an email and I'll try to get it from OCLC.

Please keep in mind that most of the libraries will not lend out a book that has been published in the past 6 months to a year. I have had some success with getting DVDs, but they are another thing most libraries don't want to lend.

**Mary Ann's Meanderings:** **Communication Coordinator's Meeting Dates - Please put them on your Calendar** **State Regulations - one representative from each school must attend!**

**November 15th - The Book Whisperer - appropriate for all types of librarians, English teachers, Elementary teachers, Special Education Teachers!**
**Meetings 2011-2012** **Meetings start at 1:00 - BYO lunch at 12:30** **October 4, 2011 Randolph High School Library - e-book discussion, possible vendor** **February 16, 2012- D.L. Connection** **May 16, 2012 - Cuba Rushford High School** **Annual Dinner - May 10, 2012 - Ho-Sta-geh** **Teaching Books** ** Posted at 04:00 AM ET, 07/14/2011 =Why librarians should be more like Lady Gaga=**
 * By [|Valerie Strauss]**
 * School libraries around the country are being dramatically cut as government officials look for places to cut their budgets — even though research shows that the country’s highest-performing students come from schools with good library centers.**
 * This is a version of a post written by The Daring Librarian, otherwise known as, Gwyneth Anne Jones, who works as a teacher-librarian in Laurel, Md., and who writes The Daring Librarian blog. She was named a “mover and shaker” of 2011 by the Library Journal, and is on the board of directors of the International Society for Technology in Education.**


 * By Gwyneth Anne Jones**
 * Times are tough all over for education. Superintendents and administrators are making some hard financial decisions. Any position that does not have constant student interaction, testing expectations and direct grading is vulnerable. Librarians and school libraries are at a crossroads.**
 * This is one of the most exciting times to be a teacher-librarian in our country and is also the scariest. A revolution is at hand, and we need to be nimble, daring, digital and shift both our practice and the way the world thinks of school librarians and libraries.**
 * Some revolutions compel you to throw everything out. This revolution is easy ... keep what you love but just make a shift.**
 * [Author] Seth Godin recently said: “A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher.”**
 * I like that... We are NOT expendable because we are guiding the minds of our students to lead them to become life-long learners, curious searchers, and good digital citizens.**
 * Librarians must teach Google ed and social media ed because we know kids are going to connect and create online, and its better that they do it with knowledge, discernment, responsibility and ethics. We must shift our language, adding words like attribution, tagging, widget, Creative Commons, transliteracy, and authority.**


 * //“I’ve always been famous, it’s just no one knew it yet.”//**
 * — Lady Gaga**


 * Shift perception! We need to be more like Lady GaGa than Lady Bird Johnson. We need to establish a clear, pervasive, vibrant, and involved presence in their school, community, and on the web. The more visible librarians are the less likely that they’ll be taken away. Those teacher librarians who are hiding their brilliant programs under a bushel, that’s when they’re most likely to get cut. We need to stay positive, be proactive, and always be professional!”**


 * Why Lady Gaga?**
 * She loves her “little monsters” and so do we!... She is innovative, a risk-taker, a change agent, an early adopter and dag she’s COOL! She also is all about self-empowerment. ...**
 * I’m SO not saying that we all need to start wearing meat gowns or Steve McQueen sky high pumps ... but to paraphrase my mentor and super hero [teacher-librarian] Dr. Joyce Valenza...We need to step up our game, get fierce, throw off the pumpkin sweaters, be awesome at our jobs and fight the good fight!**

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