[aisle] Elementary Check Out

Karrie Fisher kfisher at district31.net
Wed Sep 16 11:43:22 CDT 2020


Thank you, Christine.

Happily Ever After,

Karrie Fisher
LMC Director
Teacher Librarian

*Click HERE <http://district31.follettdestiny.com> for the Winkelman
Library Card Catalog*

Winkelman School
1919 Landwehr Road
Glenview, IL  60026
847-729-5650
847-729-5654


On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:38 AM Christine Wilson via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Our local Office Max/Office Depot donated a quantity of plastic shopping
> bags. We'll use these til they run out, then hopefully we'll either be in
> school or another donor will emerge! We are asking kids NOT to return the
> bags - they are a one use item.
>
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:29 AM Karrie Fisher via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> Christine Wilson --
>> The plastic bags -- where are you getting them from?  Are the kids going
>> to reuse them, i.e., return their books in the same plastic bags?  If so,
>> will you have to disinfect the bags?  Or will you quarantine the books and
>> the bags?
>>
>> I'm working up to checking out books to my remote kids, so I'm very
>> curious about the bag usage.
>>
>> Happily Ever After,
>>
>> Karrie Fisher
>> LMC Director
>> Teacher Librarian
>>
>> *Click HERE <http://district31.follettdestiny.com> for the Winkelman
>> Library Card Catalog*
>>
>> Winkelman School
>> 1919 Landwehr Road
>> Glenview, IL  60026
>> 847-729-5650
>> 847-729-5654
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:25 AM Christine Wilson via AISLE <
>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>    1. We are 100% remote. We are turning our Destiny Classic system
>>>    into Destiny Discover for ease of use for our 1-4 community. Students will
>>>    be able to place a hold on as many as 5 books, which we (the Media
>>>    Specialist and I) will pull and put in plastic bags with the students'
>>>    names on them. Student families will be able to come by school and pick up
>>>    their bags from the front of the school. The system will be touchless.
>>>
>>>
>>> We haven't yet implemented the plan, so we'll see how it goes! The plan
>>> is that holds must be in by the end of day Tuesday for Thursday pickup.
>>> Pickup is only available on Thursdays 8:00 am - 4:00 pm. There will also be
>>> a bin for returns, which will be quarantined for 1 week before they are
>>> scanned in and recirculated.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 11:11 AM Karrie Fisher via AISLE <
>>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am on a cart and going to the classrooms.  On Fridays I also bring a
>>>> cart of books for the various grades/reading levels.  Kids are not allowed
>>>> to touch the books so we display them and fan them out on the cart so they
>>>> can do the proverbial "pick a book by its cover."
>>>>
>>>> I taught my students (2-5) how to log into the Follett Destiny and put
>>>> books on hold, so we pull them on Thursday and  bring those  books for the
>>>> individual kids.  They loved it last week!  I also taught them how to check
>>>> out my ebooks on Destiny Discover.  They love that, too.  We use Axis360
>>>> and they all know how to use that as well.  The first week of school was
>>>> all about logging in, finding books, checking them out.  It was exhausting
>>>> but they are all set now for the times when they are not in my rotation.
>>>>
>>>> I scan in their library cards and scan their books for them.  We tried
>>>> to have them scan the books in but it's too tempting for them to touch the
>>>> scanner.  Also, unless you scan it perfectly, it doesn't work. It was
>>>> taking too much of our 25 minute classes to have the kids scanning.  Now I
>>>> just do it.
>>>>
>>>> So far, so good.  It'll be interesting to see what kind of returns I
>>>> get because I'm on rotations and see only a set group of kids for two
>>>> weeks.  That means the kids who have books due the following week won't be
>>>> in class with me.
>>>>
>>>> Flexibility is the name of my game.  And the knowledge that there will
>>>> probably be a lot of lost books this year.
>>>>
>>>> Happily Ever After,
>>>>
>>>> Karrie Fisher
>>>> LMC Director
>>>> Teacher Librarian
>>>>
>>>> *Click HERE <http://district31.follettdestiny.com> for the Winkelman
>>>> Library Card Catalog*
>>>>
>>>> Winkelman School
>>>> 1919 Landwehr Road
>>>> Glenview, IL  60026
>>>> 847-729-5650
>>>> 847-729-5654
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:15 AM Apra Mainardi via AISLE <
>>>> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello! I'm the new district teacher-librarian in Winnebago. I come
>>>>> from 10 years of experience as a teacher-librarian in Iowa previously. One
>>>>> of our elementary library aides reached out to me to try and come up with a
>>>>> better plan for check outs for grades 3-5. Would anyone be willing to share
>>>>> what your elementary building is doing for check out if students are not
>>>>> allowed to come into the library and touch the books?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Apra Mainardi
>>>>> District Teacher-Librarian
>>>>> Winnebago High School
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>>> Christine Wilson, MLIS, Media Assistant
>>> Avon Center School
>>> 1617 N. Rt. 83
>>> Round Lake Beach, IL 60073
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>
> --
>
>
> #StaySafe
>
>
> 'Who needs a librarian when you have Google? Well, who needs a doctor when
> you have WebMD?'
>
> Gwyneth Jones, The Daring Librarian.com
>
>
>
> Christine Wilson, MLIS, Media Assistant
> Avon Center School
> 1617 N. Rt. 83
> Round Lake Beach, IL 60073
>
>
> *Home of the Novas *
>
> wilson.christine at d46. <http://wilson.christine@d46.k12.il.us>org
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