My High School Library

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My High School Library

• Al Samsa
• Teacher Librarian
• Iroquois Ridge High School
• Halton District School Board
• OLA Superconference 2009

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Link
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Re technology, in 1964 it is hoped that the
main purpose of all libraries to get the right
book or information to the reader who wants it
may be more quickly, completely and economically
accomplished.
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New Books by the Exit
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OUT
IN
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Laptop Station
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Extension Novels in the open
Encyclopedias up to date
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Pimp My Book Cart
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Espresso Machine!
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Host major events... Obama's Inauguration
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Lunch time workshops for grade 12 students
didnt work!
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Useful handouts
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School newspaper
run from the resource centre
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Online Resources
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Web2.0 in action
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Class Wikis
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irhs.ca/library
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We don't pull books
We pull Deweys!
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Pathfinders
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New Books...linked to Horizon
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Create Web Photo Album

• Capture images and save in a folder
• Need Dreamweaver and Fireworks
• Open Dreamweaver, File, New, Create (blank)
• Commands, Create Web Photo Album
• Click OK

Preferences
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• Copy Horizon url for book and paste into photo
  album web page for each books link (over current
  text)
• Select Edit, Find and Replace replace .jpg
  with nothing to leave titles only
• Save and upload the index file and images in
  thumbnail folder to web

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Ok to delete images and pages folders
Web page
Horizon link
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Challenges

• Noise with 1000 students during day
• Using the online resources
• Where have all the readers gone?
• Contact ridgelibrary_at_gmail.com