Library Meeting

November 17, 2009

  1. Legal Issues for Librarians
  2. Patriot Act Search Warrant
  3. Randy Stout – 940-591-6006
  4. Chain of command – usually your principal. This doesn’t follow normal chain of command.
  5. See pages 45-47.
  6. Footnote 176 – The librarian may not even disclose to the Superintendent’s office why she might need to speak to the district’s attorney, so it is worthwhile to consider in advance of the receipt of a National Security Letter what steps you should take and how you should react. The American Library Association has valuable guidance at
  7. ACLU-FLA v. Miami-Dade County Schools
  8. Author Visits
  9. Tim Smith - Tim will present at Pecan Creek on February the 11th.He will provide this opportunity to the other Denton elementary schools as well. He charges a pie and $50 per school, and he usually does two schools a day.The info for Buck Wilder (Tim Smith): he’s available in our area between Feb. 1-19; his contact person is Andy (female) Swanson, or 231-357-7744; he’s willing to do ½ day presentation for $50 and a pie. Comes highly recommended by Brian Klauer, 2nd grade teacher at Pecan Creek.
  10. Mrs. Skorupski
  11. E book readers
  12. Lilly Locket book by Ruste Foster - $21.00
  13. Richardson ISD Literary Festival
  14. January 28, 2009 4:45-6:45 Featured Author – Alex Flinn
  15. Location: RISD PDC 701 W. Belt Line Road, Richardson, TX 75080
  16. Denton Reads-
  17. Nov. 21, 2009 – MCL Auditorium, 6:00 PM.
  18. 2010 – Ideas for YA speaker?
  19. Library Larry Television Show
  1. Our part
  2. Ideas
  1. Resiliency
  2. Update Web Pages for new Year
  3. NASA Image Archive
  4. CPS Units – 50% credit to upgrade to new CPS or MOBI
  5. TEKS – GT, Social Studies Standards
  6. Action Items
  7. TLA Rotation- no money for secondary; Ivey, Amy, Elaine, Lisa, Kelly, Stephanie,
  8. Media Retrieval roll out will begin the week of Nov. 30

NASA Image Archive - "NASA Images" is a service of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library. It was created under a Space Act agreement to offer unprecedented access to NASA media (including images, video, and audio), functioning as a free online library for all of NASA's multimedia content. Users can search for material by keyword or theme (such as Earth, Astronauts, Solar System, or Universe), or they can browse through several featured collections. The site is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA, as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers.