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ARCHIVES Special Happenings @YourLibrary ARCHIVES for 2003-2004 |
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From YOUR SBISD Librarians |
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| Check out the summer hours, programs, and activities available at these local libraries! | ||
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Harris County Public Library in the SBISD area |
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Celebration! |
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| The SBISD Library family celebrated the ending of another busy, exciting, and learning year recently with the traditional end-of-the-year celebration. The group enjoyed two talks from area authors, great food, lots of good visiting, and honored seven members of the team who will be leaving the district. This year's honorees included Resa Dunn, Pine Shadows; Cyndie Jones, Memorial High School; Barbara Riehl, Valley Oaks; Lisa Wood, Treasure Forest; Linda Alexander, Shadow Oaks; Marilyn Garretson, Spring Woods Middle, and Dayna Engelmann, Spring Forest Middle School. Best wishes to them all in their new endeavors and adventures! | ||
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Storytelling Festival |
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Saturday, May 1, 2004 |
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Raindrops kept falling on our heads... |
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...but didn't dampen our fun! |
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Professional Storytellers told their tales... |
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...Musicians entertained all! |
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...Internet time. |
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For everyone, free books... |
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Fun was everywhere! |
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April 2004 |
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NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK, April 18-24 |
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| Of the more than 117,000 in the United States, thirty-eight of the very best Libraries are found right here in SBISD, staffed with thirty-eight of the most talented and dedicated Librarians in the country! Take time during the national week for Libraries to celebrate all the good things going on @YOUR Library! |
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Write a Poem! |
| April 12-18, 2004 is Young People's Poetry Week. Take this opportunity to read, write and enjoy poetry of all kinds! |
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Grab a Book! |
| April 19-25, 2004 is National Turn Off Your TV Week. What a great time to visit your school library and check out a hot new book! |
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District Honor Finalist |
| Guusje Moore, Housman Librarian and campus Teacher of the Year has been named one of three finalists for Elementary Teacher of the year for the district. The winner will be announced at the District Service Awards Reception, April 27th, at the Westchester campus. |
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District Service |
| Several SBISD Librarians will be recognized for their years of service to the students of SBISD at the annual District Service Awards Reception, April 27th, at the Westchester campus. |
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Professional Development |
| Shadow Oaks Librarian Linda Alexander traveled to Mexico City to facilitate a workshop on the Big6 research model to Librarians, Technologists, and Administrators from the American private schools system in Mexico. She led the group in the understanding the integration of Big6 with technology and learning in the digital age. Linda has spent 13 years in librarianship and education, the last 4 at Shadow Oaks. |
| Aban Rustomji, librarian at Spring Woods High School, recently returned from Pakistan where she facilitated an education project at the invitation of the International Reading Association (IRA) to aid refugees and other displaced persons. Along with 2 volunteers from Australia & Qatar, a technical advisor from Canada, & 30 educators from local universities & teacher training colleges, Aban collaboratively mapped out the framework of a program to develop & train master/mentor teachers. The group hopes to have 5000 primary grade teachers trained within the next 3 years to combat the problems associated with illiteracy & lack of formal schooling. She looks forward to continuing with this work this summer. Aban has spent 24 years at SWHS & a previous10 years working in libraries at Loyola & overseas. |
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March 2004 |
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SBISD Employee of the Month |
| Cheryl Ballard, the talented and hard-working administrative assistant for the Library Information Services Department, is the district's employee of the month. The district Librarians submitted "a pile" of nomination letters as a testimony of how much Cheryl supports and assists anyone in the department and everyone who comes to the Media Center! |
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Librarians Honored |
| Guusje Moore, Housman Librarian, has received the Teacher of the Year honor for her campus this year. A librarian since 1976, Guusje has inspired the students at Housman for the last 13 years. A special project of her library program is Family Night at the Library where entire families come to the library weekly in the evening for reading, fun and games. |
| Karen Harrell also has been honored by her campus, Rummel Creek, with the Teacher of the Year award. Throughout her fourteen years at the school, she has made the library an integral part of student success. Karen has also been named a Texas Library Association 2004 TALL Texan and will be taking 21 years of librarianship leadership to the Institute this summer where she will interact with 23 other librarians from across the state. |
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Professional Development |
| Many SBISD Librarians will be traveling to San Antonio during the week of March 15-20, 2004, to attend the annual Texas Library Association Conference where they will have dozens of programs on librarianship, reading motivation, research strategies, and technology integration and hundreds of vendors from which to choose in their quest for new skills and information. It is the second largest library conference in the United States. Two members of the department will be making presentations at the conference. Dr. Barry Bishop, Administrator for Library Information Services, will conduct a session on school library advocacy. Liz Philippi, the department's Systems Administrator, will participate in a group presentation about how to search library catalogs for TEKS-supported materials to use with students in preparation for the various TAKS tests. |
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