and a winner of a 2016 Web Seal of Excellence
Karen Davidson-Heller is the Library Director at Malden Catholic High School and a winner of a 2016 Web Seal of Excellence When I began at Malden Catholic ten years ago as Library Director, it was a career change for me after numerous years working as a technical writer and graphic designer. With a nervous mix of excitement and terror, I embraced the challenges of working in a high school library. I immediately jumped into a number of projects, which included creating a new library website. The school’s proprietary software at the time was not very user friendly and internet-based tools were still in their infancy. However, the resulting website provided an updated look as well as easier access to the catalog and library databases for students and teachers. I knew an improved library website was essential to enhancing the library’s online presence, so I continued looking for tools that would help the school community in learning about and using the library’s resources.
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Margaret Schoen is a Librarian at Newton South High School Happy Poetry Month! We were about halfway through the month as I wrote this. If you still have the poetry bug, feel free to explore these new activities and projects in your library or bookmark this for future use. Here are some websites, apps, and other projects to help you use your tech tools to explore poetry with students.
Tricia London is the Library Director at the Avon Middle High School and a 2016 Super Librarian We don’t have a Learning Commons in our school and that is by choice. We have a Library! The old vaudevillian, George M. Cohen once penned a song about his mother, Mary. But alas, that plain name “Mary” wasn’t good enough for “propriety and society” so it was changed to Marie. Back in the sixties, when I was in fourth grade, my school library was changed into to a Media Center. At the time I wasn’t quite sure what “media” was and I was concerned that the new Media Center mightn’t have the All of a Kind Family or the Little House Books I craved. Rest assured, all was well! Mr. Fisher, the Media Specialist, (not the Librarian to clarify,) just added a shelf of filmstrips and put a new sign over the door. In essence nothing had changed. Don’t get me wrong, change can be great, but change just for the sake of change isn’t always necessary
Cathy Collins is the Library Media Specialist at Sharon High School The lights are dimmed as meditative nature sounds and gentle music drift through the air. I instruct all students to stand at the front of their mats, exhale and fold forward, symbolically shaking all stressful thoughts from their heads to the ground. I then proceed to lead the small group through a “power” yoga series of poses. A powerful 45-minute session follows of flowing yoga poses designed to build strength and flexibility while releasing tension and anxiety. One might think I am describing a yoga class on the beach in Maui. If only that were true! The view from the frosty windows of my high school library’s computer lab is instead one of a snowy New England courtyard, and Yoga Club has just ended for the day.
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