Alaska Bush Library Service

Is the textbook the curriculum, or should it serve the curriculum? This is the line I latched onto from the blog entitled “The Education Bazarr” which is a discussion on the uses of open source in the classroom. In my last job, I remember having to educate several teachers, one several times, on the fact [...]

To check out OPAC’s that are using Koha I went to Library Technology and found a website in which you can search for libraries based on the automation system that they use.  What a disappointment to find that Library Pro wasn’t among the list of programs that you can search for.  I could find libraries [...]

After reading David Lee King’s Blog about what libraries put on their websites, it makes me think what would help our patrons the most.  Today I am just looking at the BSSD Media Center website to see if I have all of these features. Traditional Content, or “Stuff we Buy”: – We have this within [...]

We are currently weeding the district media center. I think this is the least liked job for all librarians. I have just pulled all the software that can’t be read by our current computers and come to a decision that I shouldn’t be supplying software for check out. There isn’t enough use in it to [...]

Last year I told my boss that I was very unhappy with Library Pro. If I had an unlimited amount of money, I would probably purchase Destiny by Follett. It really has the features that I think make us better librarians for our patrons. John, my boss, is an open source fan. Read that to [...]

This year, as opposed to last, I am working on organizing my library better. As all libraries have, we have materials that don’t get checked out. These materials either need to be promoted better or weeded from the library so we have more room. This will be a long process, but my library will be [...]

Huh, Does anyone else see the problems with this poster? It bothers me that as we work to put forward that librarians and libraries use current technology, this poster has a picture of the old time card catalog. Arrrggghhh, I can think of a pictures that would show how libraries matter with today’s technology. I [...]

The teachers in our district were here for the last three days. This first day was Success for All training. The next day and a half was small group sessions. Most small group sessions focussed on using the data they have to best help their students. I think it was a successful in service. My [...]

It is hard to believe but I am starting a third week of classes this week. Today is SFA training. SFA is the reading program that my district chooses to use. SFA is a program that has had a lot of discussion about on the LM_Net listserv. A lot of librarians don’t like the fact [...]

Today teachers return for an inservice. They will learn a new student reporting format. Our Tech team has been working hard all summer and especially the last two weeks to build a new system that will work to show progress in our curriculum program. I don’t know if I mentioned it before but we don’t [...]