Skills Application Assignment #1

COLLEGE LIBRARY WORKSHEET:

Name ________________________________
Teacher ________________________________
Period _________

@ Your New College Library

Name of college you are planning to attend _______________________________________________
What are the operating hours of the library? ______________________________________________
What is the name of the librarys catalog program? _________________________________________
Can students access this library catalog off campus? How? __________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________
How long may students check out books? ________________________________________________
How do students print and copy in the library? _____________________________________________
Can students check their library account information online? _________________________________
Does the library have an inter-library loan program? What is the name of this service?

__________________________________________________________________________
Name 2 databases or journal indexes the library offers to their students.
1) ________________________________________________________________________________
2) ________________________________________________________________________________
Does the library offer a library instruction class? ___________________________________________
Does the library have an online tutorial? If so, what is the URL for this tutorial?

__________________________________________________________________________
Name a workshop that the library offers __________________________________________________
Does the library offer librarian assistance online? __________________________________________
Name one of the librarians and include his/her email address or phone number. __________________

__________________________________________________________________________
Does the library have a course and/or textbook reserve program? _____________________________
Describe any features the library provides, such as: mobile apps, a QR code, Facebook, Twitter.

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__________________________________________________________________________
Name 3 special resources the library offers that have not been listed above.
1) ________________________________________________________________________________
2) ________________________________________________________________________________
3) ________________________________________________________________________________

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Mrs. Forbes. Library Media Specialist

Print out a map of the school. Highlight where the library is located. If there is more than 1
library, highlight all of the libraries. Better yet, use Awesome Screencast to mark the library.

Skills Application Assignment #2

Marketing Library Resources:
Imagine you have been hired by your
college/public library to develop a promotional
campaign, advertising the unique features of
the library.
Background: The library has noticed that students are not using many of the helpful
resources of the library program. They have decided to hire knowledgeable students
to reach out to their peers and advertise the resources of the library that students will
find helpful.
Using the knowledge you have gained about your future library program, consider which
library features would be most advantageous to students. Then create a digital or print
product that will advertise and promote these beneficial resources. I want you to use more
21st Century means of communicating your information. Try using some of the apps and/or
extensions I showed you.
Here are some suggestions to consider:
o a presentation using the Google Slides app
o a Prezi presentation (Perhaps youd like to do a Prezi of QR Codes from the
QuickMark QR Code extension)
o a screencast lesson using Jing, or aTubeCatcher (or the Screencastify
extension)
o a Weebly website
o a Wikispace
o a flyer (using Smore) Again, you may want to include QR Codes and/or
Kaizena voice comments
o a Pearltree for the library (Again, remember the extension)
o a video (Perhaps using WeVideo app)
(for all of the above, consider adding word clouds you create using Tagxedo)
As you create this promotional product, be sure to consider your audience. What resources
would college students need, and what would be the best way to reach these students?
Your product will be graded according to:
- your ability to follow directions
- your understanding of the resources in a
college library
- your thoroughness of investigation
- the technical quality and thoroughness of
media produced
- your appropriate online behavior
- Your displayed knowledge of the Web 2.0
tools, apps, and extensions we discussed
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Skills Application Assignment #3 Personal Learning Space:

Create a personal learning space with access to key resources, using Symbaloo. (Symbaloo also includes
several good productivity widgets). Make it your homepage.
www.symbalooedu.com or www.symbaloo.com
Sites to Consider for Your Personal Learning Space:
Creative Commons Image Search
http://creativecommons.org/
Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la
Easy Bib Research
http://research.easybib.com/
Easy Bib
http://www.easybib.com/
GALE Databases (Youre always family)
http://galesites.com/menu/index.php?loc=santa
Purdue OWL Writing Lab Main Page
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Soople Google Advanced Search Alternative
www.soople.com
SSHS Library (Dont forget us)
www.santasusana.org/library
Sweet Search (Search engine for students)
www.sweetsearch.com
Cool Tools 4 School:
Jing (Screencasts up to 5 minutes in length for free)
http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
aTube Catcher videos, screencasts, etc. up to 15 minutes in length for free)
http://atube-catcher.dsnetwb.com/video/
Prezi (Presentational alternative to PPT)
www.prezi.com
Pearltrees (an excellent social bookmarking site)
www.pearltrees.com
Flickr Photo storage and sharing and Wordle for custom word clouds
http://www.flickr.com/
www.wordle.com
Evernote (take class notes, tape lectures, make lists, download pictures, save emails & webpages
all w/out wi-fi. Later these notes will automatically sync to all of your devices.
www.evernote.com
Dropbox (File Storage) - a must-have for every student download, store, and share documents,
pictures, etc. Dropbox is also a great way to back-up your important docs.
www.dropbox.com
Pocket (Find something online that you want to read, and pocket it for later. (even offline)
http://getpocket.com
Livebinders Great place for storing important documents in the cloud www.livebinders.com
Google Drive Create, store, and access your resources http://drive.google.com
Bitly I use Bitly to link to share a Dropbox folder. Bitly customizes URLs. http://bitly.com
Smore for creating web flyers and Gliffy or Infogram to create great diagrams and flow charts
www.smore.com
www.infogr.am.com
www.gliffy.com
Weebly Website Creator & Wikispaces: www.weebly.com or www.wikispaces.com
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Many of the resources listed above have free mobile apps.

To access the resources in this unit, go to: http://bit.ly.com/SSHSLibrary or http://santasulibrary.weebly.com

LINKS TO KEY RESOURCES FOR COLLEGE

Here are some key resources to consider adding to your Personal Learning Space. Keep checking the
Santa Su Library Weebly page for additions to these sites. Please remember to share good sites with me
when you start college. We can make this a Santa Su grad help space.
Library Research:
Melvyl (UC Library Catalog)
http://melvyl.cdlib.org/
Link+ for California State Universities
http://csul.iii.com/
Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la
OCLC/WorldCat (Libraries Worldwide)
http://www.worldcat.org/
Research Paper Writing:
Purdues OWL Writing Lab Research Help http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/
University of Washingtons Research 101
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/index.html
University of Marylands Secrets of My Research Success Tutorial
http://www.umuc.edu/library/libhow/research_tutorial.cfm
Kentucky Virtual Library How to Do Research http://www.kyvl.org/html/tutorial/research/
Hampton University Research Tutorial
http://www.hamptonu.edu/universityservices/library/hilt/ResearchTutorials.html
Rutgers RIOT Research Information Online Tutorial
http://clients.kognito.com//rutgers/infolit/
UC Links:
California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/
Online Archive Collection
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/
UC Press E-Books
http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/
UC eLinks Citation Linker
http://ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_local/cgi/core/citation-linker.cgi
Free Lending Libraries (including eBooks):
Openlibrary.org (eBook Lending Program, sponsored by the California State Library)
http://openlibrary.org/
Project Gutenberg (over 42,000 free ebooks)
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Google Scholar: (Dont forget to set your preferences to your college library & 2 others)
Enroll in their My Library program to save and cite articles http://scholar.google.com/
Library of Congress Classification System:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco
SSHS Style Guide:
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http://www.santasusana.org/library/files/SSHS_style_guide.pdf
Check to see if your library participates in the Access My Library College Edition program for mobile
access to your colleges databases. Be sure to add links to your college library and databases.

Santa Susana High School

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Mrs. Forbes. Library Media Specialist