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Partners
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February 2004 |
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The
Fayette County
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February
NEWS
Media Services Website
Processing NEWS
New Bid with Joseph Beth
McConnell Literature Conference
Award Winning Books
To be sent by Courier
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February
is Library Lovers Month
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Partners
in Education
February 2004
Cataloging
Pointers
Follett Tips
Programming
Suggestions
School
Spotlight
Professional
Growth
Teacher
Resouce Center
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Media
Services Website is new
* Media
Services' website has a new look. The change includes an easier
menu for navigation from any page within the website. The menu is
located on the left side of each page. A sample is provided to
show you how to find the area that has ordering information such as
vendors and how to fill out a MUNIS PO.
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Processing
News
* Concerning
the items you send to Media Services for processing, we have found it
necessary to ask that you heed the following guidelines.
1. Check all materials in the
union to see if you can save a record down to your local database and
then add your own barcode and spine label.
2. If the MARCs are not
in the UNION, then send items on to Media Services for processing. BE
SURE and put a note on the box that says you have checked for the MARC
in the UNION before sending contents to Media Services.
3. Send only new materials for
initial processing. If it is a set of materials make sure it is
complete.
4. Send a list of the titles
under separate cover that you are sending to be processed and if it is
a set, list the titles that are in that set.
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2004 McConnell Literature Conference
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* The 2004 McConnell Literature Conference will be held February
27-28 at the Marriott (Griffin Gate resort) in Lexington. Featured
speakers will be Laurie Halse Anderson, author of YA novels, such as
Speak (1999), a National Book Award finalist and Printz honor book,
and Catalyst (2002), as well as books for younger children, and
illustrator Betsy Lewin, probably best known for her 2001 Caldecott
honor book, Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.
The program also includes sessions on a variety of topics that
concern those interested in promoting or creating children's literature.
These sessions usually include Newbery and Caldecott discussions led by
the graduate students in the critical analysis of children's literature
class. Congratulations to Paula Setser, Deep Springs LMS
for her part in the program. The Traveling Collection of the McConnell Center is also made
available to conference attendees in order that they might examine new
books and more wisely spend their book budgets. A brochure
of the conference with a registration is now available. Please note
that you can not register electronically; you must print out this
registration form and send it in with your payment.
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Award
Winning Books
* In
January of each year, at the midwinter meeting of ALA, the current
year's book awards are announced. Visit http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/awardsscholarships/literaryawds/literaryrelated.htm to
read a listing of all of the 2004 winners. Ursula K. LeGuin is the
recipient of this year's Margaret A. Edwards Award honoring her lifetime
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Joseph
Beth as a vendor
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For the period of January 28,2004 through January 27, 2005, Joseph
Beth Booksellers will give a 10% discount on trade books, trade
paperbacks, professional reference and related items. The discount
provided by this bid (# 57-03) makes purchasing those
need-to-have-NOW items more palatable. Teachers in your building
will especially like to know this information. Our library
book vendors and prebound
book vendors will give a better price and teacher requests may be
ordered from them, but Joseph Beth will supply more quickly. Do
remember if classroom books are ordered from the vendors which
traditionally supply library books, the vendor needs to know that the
order is NOT for the library and does not require barcodes and
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* McConnell
Literature Conference Program and Registration Brochure
* International Children's Digital
Library flyer. http://www.icdlbooks.org
Digitized books for ages 3-13 and foreign language/ESL.
Free!!!!
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* Elementary Only: School Library
Media Activates Monthly (12/03) lesson plan "Science/Health:
How Much Energy Does It Take to Run?" + an accompanying Web/Max
bibliography on Food and Nutrition
* Aggregate Collection Analysis for Small
Elementary Schools from Titlewise
* Aggregate Collection Analysis for Middle
Enrollment Elementary Schools from Titlewise
* Aggregate Collection Analysis for Large
Elementary Schools from Titlewise
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