Library Ties

Last week was my favorite day of the entire school year! It’s when we host our annual author visit. This year we had the pleasure of having Sarah Weeks come to visit our school. We’ve been prepping for her visit since January. When we returned from winter break, we found a big package on our […]

Jan McGee, Elizabeth Dumas (LASL President) and Carl Harvey.       Last week I had the pleasure to head down to Louisiana and spend a few days at the Louisiana Library Association. The Louisiana Association of School Librarians is the state affiliate to American Association of School Librarians (AASL). LASL is a division of […]

There was so much amazing stuff from Thursday and Friday at the Follett Software Users Conference last week that it has taken me a little while to process it all. Not to mention, I just didn’t have time to write in Chicago as it was happening. Now that I’m “Back Home again in Indiana” I’ve […]

This afternoon the session I attend at the FSC Users Conference focused on Professional Development. It was more a discussion than a presentation and it was so interesting to see the different perspectives and ideas that the group. The primary question we discussed was when does a training become professional development. My thought is that […]

The first thing I attended today at the Follett Software Users Conference focused on report builder. In this day and age, data is an important piece in telling the story of a school library. Destiny has many created reports that are easy to run, but sometimes we want to know even more. Report Builder gives […]

My bags are all packed and I’m ready to head to Chicago this week for the Follett Users Conference. You can see the agenda here and the list of presenters. It looks like it will be a great few days of learning! This conference I’m sure will be full of new things we can do […]