IU 13 ACCESS PENNSYLVANIA MEETING
MINUTES
Thursday, October11, 2012
IU 13 1020 New Holland Avenue, Lancaster
1:00 – 3:30 pm
INTRODUCTIONS
Eric Karol –IU 13 Coordinator of Instructional Technology & Digital Media
ANNOUNCEMENTS
BUSINESS ITEMS
- Registering for Meetings
 - Please register for meetings so that we know how many people to expect
 
- Updating Sites List
 - Pleas act on Matt’s e-mail and complete the Google Form
 
- Updating Access PA Participant Directory
 - To request a change in Directory information, e-mail
 - Contact and inform them of changes
 
- Communication Modes
 - IU 13 Librarians listserv
 - HSLC Lan-Leb listserv
 - Moodle
 - Contact Colette Cairns () or Eric Karol () for a username/password
 
- IU 13 Information – Eric Karol
 - - Non-profit, truly free online teaching videos, resources, social networking site for educators
 - Funded through Gates Foundation
 - Intended for teacher use; ideas and planning
 - Submissions are made by teachers, site produces all content
 - Creating account is free
 - Videos aligned with Common Core Standards
 - Documents or transcripts may be attached
 - 65,000+ teachers registered
 - Discovery Education, Safari Montage, CultureGrams discussion and survey
 - At this point none are going away
 - Safari v. Discovery
 - Discovery can be accessed at home & downloaded
 - Safari, more current & better quality
 - CultureGrams is available for the year
 - Link to survey…
 - Tuesday December 4th Elementary Technology Conference
 - Keynote + 20 sessions – able to attend 4 different sessions
 - $50/person IU districts, $75/person non-IU (Lunch is included).
 
- IDS – Rebecca Schrecengost
 - Check IDS website for correct information:
 - Use accurate IDS numbers for sender and receiver
 - Use accurate addresses for sender and receiver from IDS database
 - Double check non-IDS school addresses - Verify address in HSLC Directory
 - Include full and complete address, including School Name
 - IU 13 pays for any mistakes
 - UPS DOES NOT deliver to a PO Box
 - Renewal information
 - Fee for 21 schools sending 701-1000 packages - $359.95 (1% increase)
 - Rebecca will send letters – return promptly
 
- Discover Earth – Penny Talbert, Ephrata Public Library
 - Interactive traveling exhibition
 - Mid-Atlantic site
 - All science related
 - Field trip dates May 22, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31 Dates are filling up.
 - Take home activities and take home goodies
 - Discover Earth LibGuide –
 - Access PA librarians will be invited to private opening
 - Zinio – January 1, 2013
 - Full text magazines-Focusing on Science magazines.
 - Available as an app
 - Open to the public
 
- IU 13 ILL Training for new librarians & aides
 - Beth will send an email through HSLC listserv
 - VDX and Shipping training needed
 - Presentation will be either live or video
 
- Lancaster-Lebanon School Library Association
 - Merger with Lancaster County Library Association
 - School librarians have always been eligible to join Lancaster County Library Association
 - Suggest programs of interest to school librarians
 - Suggest future collaborations
 - Treasury funds
 - LCLA would be willing to put the funds toward their scholarship
 - May raise the amount for a year or two
 - Scholarship already is announced to school librarians, too, through e-mails through listservs
 - Including Lebanon County might be a minor question – resolution may be needed to allow librarians to apply on a one-time basis or perhaps while LLSLA funds are made available
 
- Future meeting topics
 - Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program (Matt Good)
 - LibGuide review
 - NoodleTools updates
 - The Pennsylvania Comprehensive Literacy Plan: Keystones to Opportunity (Cindy Anderson & Barb Smith)
 - Literacy Design Collaborative(Barb Smith, Kelly Galbraith, participating librarians)
 - Teacher evaluation – 50% observation & evidence, 50% student performance (15% building level data, 15% teacher specific date, 20% elective data) - How does this affect librarian’s evaluation?
 
- Future meetings
 - December 20, 2012 - 1:00 - 3:30 pm
 - March 14, 2013 - 1:00 - 3:30 pm
 - May 23, 2013 - 12:30 - 3:00 pm –Ephrata Public Library – THIS IS A CHANGE FROM THE ORIGINAL SCHEDULE
 
UPCOMING EVENTS & MEETINGS
2012
October12-13AASL Fall Forum, Transliteracy and the School Library Program – Satellite site, Bucks County IU 11, Doylestown, PA , or join the conversation on Ning
October 18School Library Research Release – Harrisburg, PA – see attached
October 25School Library Research Release – Philadelphia, PA - see attached
November 1Lancaster County Library Association meeting, Black Gryphon, Elizabethtown, 6:00 pm
Roundtable dinner discussion focused on common read programs
December 20ACCESS PA Lancaster-Lebanon Regional Group Meeting - 1:00 - 3:30 pm
All IU 13 ACCESS PA meetings will be held from1:00 to 3:30pm, IU 13, 1020 New Holland Avenue, Lancaster.
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