December+7,+2006

=ISLU Minutes=

Agenda
1. Communication

2. Pioneer with Rick

3. Other

4. Date of Next Meeting: a. Place:

=Meeting Notes=

Pioneer
Rick Cline came to speak to us about Pioneer. He tracks the usage, and the independent schools' usage has gone way down. This is a concern for now we get the use of Pioneer without any cost to the private schools.

Rick said more eMedia items are available all the time.

Send Rick your IP's if your school is not authenticated. rcline@uen.org

Go to UEN and join the library-media listserv. This is one way to find out about trials of databases.

Questions: Is Pioneer looking at history databases like ABC Clio, JSTOR, Thomson- Gale. You can email Rick suggestions for Pioneer to try.

Faculty Lounge: Thursdays for one half hour, on a web cam. Visit this for a quick presentation on timely topics (Educator link- Professional development). There is also an archive.

Pioneer is looking at a federated search system where one search will take you into many databases.

Go to: pioneer-library.org " Support materials" has lots of tips, techniques for searching, etc.

**Communication**

 * Lynn Lonsdale** (Waterford) has an email and newsletter.


 * Pam Stone** (Rowland Hall Upper School) takes new books down to the faculty room and shows the students the books.

She sends emails targeting individual grade levels or teachers concerning acquisitions or web sites or special topics.
 * Becky Hall** (Rowland Hall Lower School) publishes an article in the online school newsletter to parents and faculty once a month.


 * Martha Quinn** (Waterford) sends a new book with a note to the teacher who might be interested.

There's a monthly newsletter that is part of the school newsletter. New books are on display for 2 weeks. Kids fill out a slip to get the books on hold. New acquisitions are shown at staff meetings A slip is sent to teachers for them to share what units they'll be doing each month- one month ahead of time so materials can be gathered.
 * Giselle** (St. Vincent’s) used to send a library manual but now it is all on the web site.

Daily Bulletin is available on the web site for parents. General announcements can be emailed to classrooms (read aloud in the classroom or target a class, individuals, or everyone. Loudspeaker system is used several times a day and TV announcements
 * Jan Duane** (Juan Diego) emails about new acquisitions like DVD's, videos, etc.

OTHER INFO
Go to UEN and look at the web sites for each school. http://www.uen.org/

UELMA’s Spring Çonference is on March 1st.

UELMA’s website: http://www.uelma.org/

LM_NET is for all kinds of library professionals and has tons of information for librarians in public/private schools. Go to the archives - they're about a month behind http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/

or you can join

http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/

AISL listserv- just for independent schools: Lynn and Martha recommend their spring conference. [| http://www.aislnews.org/about.htm]