Educational DVDs for viewing in classrooms

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.

SCL ‘Food for Fines’ to combat hunger

Donation barrels are set up at all branches of Sonoma County Library, for its Food for Fines annual collection drive in partnership with local food banks.

‘Walk and Roll,’ school gates close each Wednesday

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.
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Yarn bombing commemorates library anniversary

Image credit: Manchester Community Library on Facebook

In Manchester, Vermont: Artist Trish Weill and Youth Services Librarian Janet Kleinberg spearheaded a yarn-bombing by community members of the Manchester Community Library (MCL).
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Musical instruments, barcoded and cataloged

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.

‘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.