High School TeacherLibrarians

Comment by Rita Sitron on August 18, 2008 at 3:52pm

I need some new refreshing freshman orientation activities that don't bore me! Any new ideas?

Comment by PMS@CHS on September 9, 2008 at 2:36pm

If you are a librarian in West Virginia I would like to hear from you about the CSO's that are being put into "Kid Friendly" terms.

Comment by Janelle Grammens on September 9, 2008 at 3:42pm

I am teacher librarian for a high school of 1700 students in Muscatine, Iowa. As a new member I am looking forward to the exchange of ideas that this group will provide.

Comment by Candace Aiani on September 20, 2008 at 10:29pm

I'm interested in knowing (1) what access you (stateside) librarians have to databases (Ebsco, Grolier, Gale, etc.) in terms of numbers of databases, (2) if your access is through a state or regional consortium, and (3) if you pay for the access at the local level.
Most sincerely,
Candace

Comment by Mary Alice Osborne on September 21, 2008 at 6:47am

Hi Teacher Librarians out there!

I just joined this group. I am th MS and dHS Librarian at Shekou International
School. I am really interested if anyone else out there

Comment by Mary Alice Osborne on September 21, 2008 at 6:54am

heres the rest of what I was trying to say :)
I s anyone else out there ditching paid databases for the incredible resources found on the invisible or so called deep web. I would love to hear your ideas about this. Recently I did lots of work to put together a list of great sources for our Seniors to use when researching controversial subjects. See is here:
http://teacher.www92.cn4e.com/Class_pages/library/controversialissues.htm
I wanted this to be pretty comprehensive for the students and hope that the resources listed there are even better than those used in Gales Opposing Viewpoints... which costs a lot of money and to me is not authentic stuff. What do you think?

Let me know
Thanks! Mary Alice Osborne

Comment by Rob Rubis on September 23, 2008 at 3:50am

Mary Alice,
Haven't let anything go yet, but I'm definitely thinking about it. Will review your files and let you know where I end up~
Rob Rubis

Comment by Ray Maseman on September 23, 2008 at 9:56pm

Right now I'm ditching bulky, expensive and quickly out-of-date reference tomes for paid databases. Maybe that puts me behind Mary Alice! I'm interested in the "deep web" stuff, but right now I'm cleaning up after a "librarian" who neglected the library for years beyond count.
I have several databases that the district pays for. They are mostly Gale ones, which I don't much like. I find it cumbersome to use, and it is unusable by students who struggle at all with reading. There is a newspaper/magazine, paid for by the New Mexico State Library that is useful. Even better has been a database of historical American newspapers from 1690-1922. Great primary source material, and the students get excited about using it.
I'd like to hear what others are doing. I've been wrestling with this whole reference issue for a couple years now, back to when I was a middle school librarian

Comment by Joanie Proske on November 11, 2008 at 2:45pm

I'm usually the Teacher Librarian of large Gr. 8-12 high school but this year I'm off on education leave to complete my Masters with a teacher librarian focus. I have just discovered this forum and am eager to learn from others, especially in the area of information technology and Web 2.0 applications.

Comment by Nathan on December 5, 2008 at 9:54pm

My name is Nathan, I work in a large high school in Sheboygan Wisconsin...ran into info on this site on Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk blog. I'm sure I'll get a lot out of this group. Thanks to whomever started it.

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