Partners in Education March 2004

	Partners in Education March 2004	The Fayette County Media Services and School Libraries Newsletter

	March NEWS Media Services Processing and Vendor Info Processing Foreign Language Items Upcoming Celebrations To be sent by Courier -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Partners in Education March 2004 Cataloging Pointers Follett Tips Programming Suggestions School Spotlight Professional Growth Teacher Resouce Center	Media Services Processing and Vendor Info As of 2/27/04 Media Services has processed several shipments from the following bid vendors during 2003-2004 school year. Below are the number of purchase orders that have been generated through Media Services: B & T-27 Bound to Stay Bound-2 Follett-89 Mackin-4 World Almanac-4 #Follett AV-2 #Mackin AV-3 #Media Basics-1 #School Media Associates-26 The total of books which have been processed through Media Services and added to FCPS libraries thus far in 2003-2004 is 20,140.* The total of AV items which have been processed through Media Services and added to FCPS libraries thus far in 2003-2004 is 2120.
	Processing Foreign Language Items Because schools have a need for more and more foreign language items to be processed into the library collection, Media Services has been asked to process these for your library. Unfortunately none of the staff is fluent in any foreign language. With this in mind we ask that you follow these guidelines when sending in foreign language orders (Purchase Orders or From School). * Send the order list and a copy of the catalog that you used to find your information. (Any information that you have in English is helpful). * If one of the jobbers can’t find MARC records for items or if LMSs order from the publisher or send the items for processing from the school, then Media Services will have to create a MARC record. In this case the information Media Services gets from you will help to catalog the items much faster. * If we cannot translate to get the MARC record information, then we will have to return items to you. You will then need to find someone to translate them for MARC record information.
	Upcoming Celebrations Get Ready ---- Get Set Tuesday - March 2nd - Celebrate Read Across America Day - sponsored by NEA Start now with ideas to make April celebrations encourage reading. These celebrations often serve as a nice PR tool for the library. ^April 12-18 - Children's Poetry Week - sponsored by the Children's Book Council ^April 18-24 - National Library week - sponsored by the American Library Association ^April 19-25 - TV Turn Off the Week - sponsored by the TV-Turnoff Network ^April 23rd - World Book and Copyright Day - sponsored by UNESCO






	Additional information to arrive via Courier listed below * Elementary and Middle School Only: Library Media Activates Monthly (2/04) lesson plan "African American Inventors" + an accompanying Web/Max bibliography on African American Inventors
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