Share: Archdiocese of Arlington Standards for Learning

Came across these, and thought they looked good. I don't know how this compares to ADW, as I am not in the loop. Thought you might be interested to look at them:

http://www.arlingtondiocese.org/offices/schools/curriculum-home.html

Oak Hill Library rennovation

We are still looking for Volunteers to help with the process. Approximately
20 Volunteers are needed for each 2-hour shift on the tentative dates listed
below. Volunteers may sign up for as many shifts as desired.



Saturday, January 19 - 8am - 4pm

Saturday, January 26 - 8am - 4pm

Saturday, February 2 - 12pm - 6pm

Saturday, February 9 - 12pm - 6pm

Saturday, February 16 - 12pm- 6pm

Saturday, February 23 - 12pm- 6pm



Once the reorganization is complete, we will have a grand opening
celebration to thank our volunteers and to kick off library operations.

Amanda M. Jones, Volunteer & Community Outreach Coordinator

Phone: 240.456.5080 Email: ajones@seeforever.org



3201 Oak Hill Drive . Laurel, MD 20724

Phone: (240) 456-5080 . Fax: (240) 456-5057 . www.seeforever.org/OAKHILL

Public library cards used in school library

Dear folks,

Today our school librarian mentioned that there is a move by some schools for students to use their public library cards in school libraries/labs. Years ago, when I was at St. Bernard's, I had my students do this, as we could not afford anything. Then, following that I was told by a World Book rep. that this is not ethical. Of course, here is bias...:)

Does anyone know a public librarian in Mtg. County who he/she could check with on the library's policy?

IE problems in Destiny

This came across the LM Net list-serv and thought some of you may be interested. Will let oyu know if there is any follow-up, but thought this might generate some thoughts for the meeting:

Fellow Destiny users or IE gurus,

We upgraded to Follett's Destiny in November and for the most part are pleased with the product. However, I'm still troubleshooting some problems.

We are functioning fine in the Firefox browser.

However, one problem that we have is with Internet Explorer. On machines that were re-imaged in our district this past summer, trying to click on the catalog tab when the browser opens to Destiny, produces an error message that tells the user they have to login. This is not true, as we have the guest ID active without a login name and it is working correctly when we go through Firefox.

In IE after you get the error message, if you click the back button and then try catalog a second time, it goes in. As you can imagine, I can't teach users to do that. I'm trying to teach them to use Firefox, but many people just prefer IE or don't even understand what a browser is, so when you suggest changing browsers, they just sort of get that deer in the headlights look. ;-)

My office computer was skipped in last summer's re-imaging, so my IE is working fine with it. IE from home is working fine with it. Follett has not been able to give me any guidance as to what setting in our image of IE might be causing this problem.

So, I come to you...any ideas? We are able to exchange cookies, so I don't think that's the setting. I don't know a lot about IE but if you give me ideas, I'll run them past our district tech guys. They have too much on their plates to devote much time to this problem. (especially since we have access through Firefox)

We still have some speed issues with scanning so I would love to see if switching to the IE browser helps with that, but at this point, we can't really test it.

In our New Year: Call for volunteers

In the upcoming months, I will be working with See Forever Foundation to help build a library at Oak Hill Academy - a D.C. juvenile detention facility located in Laurel, Md. The initial work is being done by Georgetown undergraduates and other social service organizations, but they could really use the help of trained librarians. It is a wonderful way for our catholic librarians to promote social justice by providing a library for these youth. If you are interested, please contact me via e-mail regarding this project at tinahudak@gmail.com.