Saturday, November 25, 2017

Educational DVDs for viewing in classrooms

Stacks of DVDs with library barcodes on them. Behind them, a third stack of DVDs does not yet have barcodes. Titles visible on front covers of DVDs include 'Shark Eden,' 'Big Sur, Wild California,' and 'Monster Black Holes.'

Among this paralibrarian’s recent adventures in cataloging: Educational films, produced by National Geographic, can now be checked out to educators at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts.

Our Library Technician, Shannon Williams, purchased the DVDs with Scholastic Book Fair dollars, and I barcoded and cataloged them in our automated database for textbooks and educational resources.

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

‘Walk and Roll,’ school gates close each Wednesday

Banner, attached to metal gate frame, reads, 'Walk and Roll Wednesdays, sonomasaferoutes.org.' Image depicts human figures, an adult-sized walking holding the hands of a figure with skirt and pony-tail who is holding a lunch box. In front of them, a third figure rides a bicycle and wears a backpack. The trio of figures are depicted in a landscape of trees and green hills, against a blue-sky backdrop

School is out this week, in observance of Thanksgiving, but I want to reinforce “Walk and Roll” each Wednesday at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts.

SCL: Panel discussions address ‘hot-button’ topics

Via Press Democrat staff writer Christi Warren: Sonoma County Library is hosting a series of panel discussions around the “hot-button topics” of immigration, climate change, blackness in America, women’s rights, LGBTQI issues and income inequality.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Musical instruments, barcoded and cataloged

Stack of two clarinets in cases, in front of two trumpets in cases. In each stack, the top case's lid is open to show the musical instrument inside of it

Musical instruments are being sent home with students at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts, just as quickly as I can barcode and catalog them. I am checking these instruments out to students, the same way that they would have a library book checked-out before they removed it from the library.

As the Instructional Materials Technician at SRCSA, I utilize an automated library-and-resource catalog to barcode and inventory textbooks. (I call myself a “curriculum librarian.”) As you can see from this post, the practice applies toward musical instruments as well. Shown are a couple of clarinets and a couple of trumpets that are destined to go home with students.

Saturday, November 4, 2017

‘Walk and Roll to School’ Wednesdays at SRCSA

Wednesdays are “Walk and Roll to School” days at Santa Rosa Charter School for the Arts! For the first time this week, we closed the yellow gates to the school parking lot on Wednesday; I was out in my bright yellow-green, reflective vest helping to redirect motorists.