April+3,+2007

=ISLU Meeting Minutes=

April 3, 2997
Notes from the meeting held April 3, 2007 at St. Vincent's

We had everyone introduce themselves and then Giselle told us about her library and explained some of her reading motivators.

There were four packs of social studies/ math software given to our group by UEN. At first we were in a quandary about it, but later Beckie Hall arrived and explained it further. Then it was passed out to four different representatives and the recipients signed for them.

We discussed the UELMA convention, comments were positive for the most part and everyone who attended felt like it was well worth the time spent.

Jan gave us a mini-tour of the UELMA web site and showed us some of the benefits and interesting things to look at. http://www.uelma.org

Lisa asked if there was a certified media specialist willing to mentor her for her practicum through SUU this summer. People asked for a chance to think about it. Lisa may still be looking for a mentor this summer. There is about $200.00 available for this. Please let her know asap if you would be willing to do this.

Kristin reported on the Pioneer meeting. There are efforts being made to simplify the format, possibly making it look more like Google.

Because Rowland Hall is considering a new system others in the group talked about their systems, the pros and cons. Martha demonstrated how to download a MARC from the Library of Congress for the Alexandria system.

Different ideas for inventory taking were discussed as well as an assignment was given for people to send out lesson plans on “Scope and Sequence”. We may need to discuss inventory again next year when there is more time.

Also it was suggested that people take a look at the AISL web sites. (I thought I had a text book that listed standards for each grade, it doesn’t. It lists the nine Information Literacy Standards and gives really good examples of how to apply them in helping each grade in different curriculum areas by using the media center to fulfill the requirements. The information is found in Information Power starting on page 8. Sorry about getting everyone’s hopes up and then dashing them with Information Power! )

We ended the meeting at 5:55 p.m.

Other Notes of Interest:

Attached is the updated ISLU Directory - see Realms of Inquiry for new email address and take Beryl Main's name off Rowland Hall-St. Mark's Lower School. If any other corrections are needed, please send the changes to Jan Duane.

Fawn Morgan - HS teacher in Layton said: Although I do teach a structured library orientation for in-coming students each year, in general I believe it works best to teach information literacy lessons as part of a teacher assigned project. This project will be in the context of the subject curriculum and will, therefore, I have more validity than an isolated lesson. These project related lessons will be developed or pulled out as a particular need arises and will probably emphasize only one or two of the research steps.

Michelle Armstrong: The Madeleine Choir School (MCS) is having an accreditation team visit this May…and I was hoping I could get some information/advice/feedback from the ISLU membership. I was particularly interested in library automation, and I had a survey I wanted to distribute…just something informal to help me understand where our library stands in terms of usefulness to the students. Michelle, send this out as an attachment and we will help.

These are Lynn Lonsdale's websites she uses when "teaching evaluating internet resources to show how easy it is to be fooled by disinformation, faux sites, hate sites or just the need to think carefully about what can be found during an online search."

= = =Becky Hall - Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School=

Comments
Great meeting today, everyone!

Here is the URL for CLAU. It has the list for next year: http://www.clau.org/index.html Oddly enough it lists the same books for this year and next year. The list that starts with Yellow Star is for next year. If you want to vote on this year's list (It closes on April 15) here is the URL for that ...http://www.clau.org/teachers.html You must sign in and get a password, but then you can update your tally whenever you want.

Apropos of our conversation today about Wikipedia...

WIKI Several readers mentioned that they had read, or been told, that the origin of this word lies not in the Hawaiian for "quick", but as an acronym "What I Know Is". Alison Melville said, "Don't tell me this is yet another of these fanciful false etymologies that declares a perfectly good word is derived from an acronym!" Sorry, Ms Melville, that's exactly what it is. (This came from an obscure etymology web site in England.) {:-)