Librarians' Corner News - Nov 2024

Check out this month's featured titles selected by our very own Hawaiʻi librarians!

Go to: https://soraapp.com/ to get started.

Donʻt miss out on the three (3) district library Professional Learning Community (PLC) days from 8:30am to 3:00 pm. The PLC are designed to provide learning opportunities to improve and strengthen school library programs through sharing and collaboration.

PLC host sites and dates are indicated below:

Honolulu-Windward-Hawaii Districts

Friday, January 10, 2025 | Farrington High School Library

Maui District

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | ʻĪao Intermediate School Library

Leeward-Central-Kauai Districts

Friday, January 17, 2025 | Pearl City High School Library

Click here to view the PLC Agenda.

Unleashing Sora's Power: Mastering OverDrive Marketplace for School Advantage Accounts

Learn to maximize Sora's potential for your school library through a School Advantage Account! This Power Hour session will dive into OverDrive Marketplace, empowering you to curate collections, track student reading habits, and purchase titles tailored to your students' needs. Join us to gain the skills and knowledge to create a vibrant and engaging digital reading experience.

Get inspired by featured librarians, Angela Ramey (Hoʻokele Elementary) and Ernelle Hallaman (Pearl City High) as they share their tips, tricks, and success stories with OverDrive Marketplace and how they are leveraging the School Advantage account to support their students and teachers.

Date: November 7, 2024

Time: 2:30 p.m.

Register at: https://bit.ly/LMS-POWERHOURS

Boost your students' learning experience with the Core Bundle Resource Guide! This printed guide, being mailed to each school subscribing to the Core bundle. The guide provides a valuable hard copy resource on the using EBSCO, Learn360, Prep Step, Sora, and World Book.

Watch for its delivery and start maximizing these powerful tools!

The second edition of ʻEnehana (Technology) monthly digital magazine is here! Created by the Digital Design Team at the Office of Curriculum and Instructional Design, ʻEnehana aims to support Hawaiʻi educators and staff with resources to enhance your technology experience.

This edition features the Gale Resources so check it out today!

You are invited to register and attend the TLCU 2024 virtual conference on November 6-8, 2024. This virtual conference is focused around effective use and road map of LS2, our centralized library management system. Library Media Services has purchased the unlimited registration that enables all interested HIDOE school library staff to attend the conference.

Check out the schedule-at-a-glance here to identify the sessions you won't want to miss. Look for the school library related sessions. NOTE: the conference is scheduled in Eastern Standard Time so as long as you register, you will have access to view the sessions.

Access the registration instructions.

Library Media Services designed and ordered small, square key tags (1-1/2" x 1-1/2") aimed at building awareness and promoting access to the Sora Digital Library. These tags can be easily attached to key rings, backpacks, name badges, or anywhere you can hang a small tag.

If you haven't placed your order yet or need more key tags, click the button below to put in your request! Key tags are limited and will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis.

Check out the list of top performing schools for Quarter 1! We had 7,719 readers at 159 schools who logged 2,700,400 minutes of reading!

Check out the list of Sora top circulating schools and titles for Quarter 1! We had 170,681 checkouts between August 1, 2024 and October 4, 2024!