Alaska Bush Library Service

“For some people, if the answer isn’t in the first few results it might as well not be there,” said Gary Price, founder and editor of the ResourceShelf blog and director of online resources at Ask.com. “No matter how smart and helpful search engines get, they’re never going to replace librarians. Great article, one person [...]

Last Monday I traveled to Gambell Alaska for my first trip out for the school year. I worked with the elementary students on Tuesday and Wednesday. Great lessons in how to come up with ideas for research. I bring in Jelly Bellies, a movie on how they are made. This takes about seven minutes and [...]

URL: Making Time for Web 2.0 The question I get the most from library friends, “How do I make time for all this new stuff?” David King is currently the Acting IT Director at Kansas City Public Library. He has some good ideas for making time for use to learn the new technologies. Interesting tidbit [...]

Anansi and the Moss covered Rock is a book the Alaska Battle of the Books program. He was kind enough to send me two pictures. (I wasn’t clear the first time that I wanted him to be holding the book.) It was interesting as he seemed a little surprised and pleased to have his book [...]

Today is the day of my first school trip.  I am on my way to Gambell.  I will be there until Saturday and then move onto Savoonga.  Usually I only go out for a week at a time.  I am trying something new this year.  The cost for going to the island is so much [...]

The reason to have a union catalog is that you will only have to update it once.  I am updating all the libraries in my district with Lexile reading levels.  The library software we use is set up so that you have to add the fields you need and then upload the records, the reindex [...]

Today I finished some online lesson for students in fourth-sixth grade on how to use the Alaska Statewide Databases. The first lesson was to introduce the students to magazines and have them answer the questions about why they would want to learn from magazines. The second lesson was on one of the specific databases. This [...]

One of my favorite aspects of library service is when we have just the right material for a teacher, right when she needs it.  Twice in the last 24 hours I have been able to experience that.  The first was when an SFA facilitator asked to borrow four copies of “Danny and the Dinosaur”.  I [...]

I am vehelment about librarians need to know about and embrace Web 2.0 in all the ways it can help our patrons. I feel that I am fortunate with the vastness of my job that I work with both adults and students to meet all their neeeds. I really liked this Library 2.0 article from [...]