LIBRARY SERVICES
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- Online Catalogue
- Online Catalogue Help Presentation
- Videos
- Help Bulletins
- Acceptable Medium Codes
- PR for the catalogue [Publisher 2000]
Our Picture Gallery of Libraries
- Elementary pictures
- What makes an excellent elementary library
- Secondary pictures
MARC
- Source for MARC records @ Library of Congress
- Samples of MARC compared to NNDSB Input
- Understanding MARC records
- MARC fields
- Online Library Catalogues of the world
- Library tutorials @ South Florida University
- MARC Reference Lists
- MARC tags explained from Follett Software
- Tag Lists ***
- Library Usage Statistics
- End of semester circulation statistics instructions
- Bookings & Statistics
- Quiz Questions
- Budget
- Bookings
- Daily Operations for Substitutes
- End of Year Elementary
- Inventory with handhelds
- Lost or missing books
- MARC explanations
- Medium Codes
- Printers adding
- Weeding [also see policies on the reposit]
- ISBN Converter
- Toronto Public Library opac. Click to see details ad then down the left, click on MARC Display to find place of publication.
- Amicus Web from the National Library of Canada [MARC L: nndsb P:library04] [Can find and save MARC. Then use MarcEdit Tools to change to XML. Use our routine Import MARC to read into our system.]
- Montreal Public Library for French materials
- Ottawa Public Library [bilingual]
-
Library
of Congress
- z39.50 cataloguing
- note: to search LCCNs the old ones must be 8 digits long [new ones are 10]. To make the old numbers 8 digits, add 0 behind year [first 2 numbers]. ie. original: 6801010 but we should search 68001010.
- British Library Catalogue
- University of Toronto
- Usborne Books MARC records
- North Bay Public Library
- NNDSB Cataloguing Policies & Guidelines
- Booksellers:
- National Book Services Toronto
- Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness series
- DK Canada
- Knowbuddy
- Orca Soundings - High Interest/Low Vocab for High Schools
- Permabound Canada
- Pinetree Media - posters and more
- Saunders
- S & B books
- Scholastic Canada Secondary
- Scholastic Canada Elementary
- Scholastic - French
- Usborne Books including Internet Linked
- Public Performance Films
- Weeding - Weed & Feed Your Collection Guidelines
- Leveling
Shelving & Furniture Links
PR materials:
- Accelerated Reader
- Book Lists & Links
- Reading Olympics & other literacy programs
- White Pine - reading incentives for secondary
- Active Directory [secondary]
- Assessing your Library - an interesting example
- Assess a Child's Reading Level - an online self-assessment test
- Banned Books:
- Book Sign Out Blank Form
- Budgets
- Daily operations for substitutes
- End of Year Elementary Procedures
- End of Year Secondary Procedures
- Inventory with Handheld scanner
- How to Process New Books
- How to Run a Library
- Leveling Database
- Levels - Discovering the reading level of a book
- Lost, missing, damaged books
- Printers - Being able to print to a network printer in each school
- Podcast on Libraries
- Reposit
- Web Page Management for Librarians NNDSB
- Web Page Updating Online Schedule
- Weeding, Discarding Procedures
- What Makes an Excellent Elementary Library?
- School Library Policies Samples - California
Instructions
- Avery Label Pro instructions for barcodes
- Barcode.zip instructions
- Changing Passwords
- Board e-mail
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Purchasing Information:
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3-Soft Price List [Excel 2000]
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200 - 6400 Tachereau Blvd. Brossard, Quebec. J4W 3J2 Attn: Sylvia Pires
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- COOL information
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Professional Development
Cataloguing
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Parts of a book - introduction to the Library for elementary students
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BUBL LINK [LIbrary of Networked Knowledge] - a spectacular list of Internet sites organized by subjects and by Dewey number.]
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Dewey Decimal Info - from OCLC - PowerPoint plus the screen saver
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Our Dewey
- Our Dewey Combined - for downloading
- Cataloguing Hints
- Dewey Pinball - the easy way to learn to catalogue
- Cyber Dewey - listings of numbers for books
- Power Point about Dewey - excellent
- Adding Subject Headings
- Some Dewey sites for Elementary
Library Lesson Sites
- NNDSB proposed lessons
- Library Lessons K-6
- Book Talks - ready to use
- How to Present Book Talks
- Lessons by grade [North Dakota school]
- Library Skills Dutch Hill Elementary
- Jan Brett site and activities
Librarianship
- Middle School Virtual Library sample
- Magazines for Librarians
- Elementary School Library website - well done
- A great site for children
- School Library Journal
- Scholastic Books Research Site
- Summer Reading Counts - from Scholastic
Display Ideas
- September
- October - Thanksgiving
- November - Remembrance Day
- December - Christmas, Channukah
- January
- February - Black History; St Valentine's Day
- March - Women's History, Nutrition
- April - cancer, health
- May
- June
-
a Near North
sample AUP [bilingual]
- Houston Independent Schools
- Lists of AUPs
- Internet Safety
- Critical Evaluation of Websites
- Critical Evaluation lesson plan - comparison rubric for web sites
- 10 C's for evaluating web sites
- Web Hoaxes and Misinformation
- Kathy Schrock's list of guides
- Best Sites - Samples:
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Citation Generators
- Easy Bib - you put in the data & Easy Bib returns a correct bibliographic entry
- Noodle Tools
- APA & MLA - fill in the blanks citations
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Sites with mega links
- A Research Guide for Students - could there be any links they've missed on every aspect of writing papers?
- Purdue List
- Purdue OWL [online writing lab] MLA Style [before printing, select printer-friendly version or .pdf version]
- Sample Bibliography/Works Cited
- Purdue OWL [online writing lab] APA Style
Plagiarism
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Communications/Writing
Program [including lessons on quoting, paraphrasing & citing].
- A must-read file on PLAGIARISM
- Plagiarism Power Point for teachers
- Need Help Avoiding Plagiarism? - a guide for students
- How Not to Plagiarize - from the U of Toronto
- Put an End to Plagiarism - feature by Education World
- Plagiarism Detection Services
- 7 Ways to avoid Plagiarism
Copyright Issues
- Podcasting
- Begging to Read - elementary schools
- Bibliovirtuelle
- Will This Book be Banned?
- Hot Issues in School Libraries
- Making a First Impression - the Ontario Digital Library
- Library Orientation
- Breakfast Reading Club for Boys
- Book Babes
- Historica Fair
- Literacy and Leadership
- Della vs Stella - Choosing Kids' Books
- School Library Collaboration
- Science Fiction for grades 7 and 8
- Boys and Literacy
- 21st Century Libraries
- Red Maple and White Pines Winners
- Dealing with crisis behaviours
- Student and New Teachers and the Library
- Ideas for Library Orientations
- Health Information
- Multi-Use Titles: More Bang for Your Buck
- How Can Libraries Better Serve You?
- Be the Change: Building Global Citizens
- Best Graphic Novels for Elementary Schools
- Roving Reference - Helping Patrons
- Visual Organizers