Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Thing 13 - School Library Web Presence

I looked through all of the ideas for library presence on the web.  I currently have a school website that I keep up-to-date.  When I have a class come in, I create a page with links for their projects and research.  I leave all of this on my site with hopes that we can use it again next year with the same teacher.  I find that the teachers will do a similar project the next year.  It is easier to update my page each year than to start out fresh.  The teachers are coming back to the library & requesting me to teach part of their classes now.  They like that I add their suggestions to my page & that I tweak it.  I still find that some teachers just need me to keep students on task.  That's ok.  I have them in the library & even though I don't give a whole class lesson, I can still give the students one-on-one instruction on how to better search.


The site that I explored the most was S'more.  I really liked it.  It was very easy to use & very easy to edit.  I created a page & sent it to our person that does the facebook page for our school.  She didn't post it because it explains how to get on our eBook site.  So I talked to some students in the library.  I am going to create a twitter page & request students to follow me.  I really think that with Twitter & S'more, the library presence is going to increase a lot.  I did send my first S'more to Polly.  It was a simple one, but it looked so professional!


As of this week, our eBook checkouts have reached over 1,000.  Normally, I don't get worked up over circulation numbers, but this time I did the happy dance.  I send out an email to all of the people in our district.  This is definitely something that I will be putting on our S'more page.