Taking Embedded Librarianship to a School Setting

Taking Embedded Librarianship to the Next Level from ALATechSource

Common Core Meets One Search

On February 28th, the NVSLC eTeam met for a live conversation hosted by Follett Software about Common Core and One Search. Below are the opening video and the accompanying PowerPoint. The entire session was recorded by Follett and will be available on their website by March 5th. We would like to thank the Follett Software team and especially Matt Loiacono! Without his guidance and support, this project would not have existed. Kate, Michelle & Sandy

Common Core Meets One Search PPT

Common Core Meets One Search from Kate MacMillan

CK-12 Foundation Flex Books

Take a tour of Flex books and see how digital and print meet!

CK-12 Overview

View more presentations from CK12 Foundation

Collaboration!

Last week Sandy Biale (NVUSD) and Allsion Fox (CJUSD) participated in a day long community needs assessment at the Napa City County Library (NCCL)! 
Library staff from SHUSD, NVUSD and St. Vincent/St Patrick have been invited to attend the day long Edgy Librarian webinar in the NCCL community room on February 1st.
On February 2nd, Sandy Biale will attend the Academic Literacy Summit at UC Davis with Danis Kreimeier! 

 Napa County is very lucky to have this partnership with the public library systems!

School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next ... What's Yet To Come!

Like Jennifer Le Garde so aptly posted on her library blog,  we are all  honored to be a part of this "crowd sourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors."   Napa USD has two articles in the collection.  The first is  the CSLA best practice Athletes as Readers and Leaders narrative and the second is a description of the collaborative partnership that exists between NVUSD and the Napa City County Library!
As Joyce Valenza said in her School Library Journal blog, "Holy collaboration!  Looking for some updated thinking about school libraries!" Take time to download these  thought provoking essays on what the future holds for our profession. (It is currently available through Smashwords in formats that allow you to read it both on your computer and/or a mobile device. In just a few weeks, however, you'll be able to also download it through several of the major eBook Stores (like iBooks and B&N).



eReference at ACHS

 eBooks now make up 80% of American Canyon High School Library's reference collection! ABC-CLIO databases and Follett's Shelf allow unlimited simultaneous users.  How cool is that?  Take a tour through the ACHS Library Homepage.