by The Modern Librarian | Apps/Programs, Lesson Plans, Working with Students
I wanted to try something new for freshmen library orientation this year and got this awesome idea from Naomi Bates to use meme’s. Today I tried it for the first time and it was a huge success! I loved looking around the room and seeing kids smiling and laughing...
by The Modern Librarian | Working with Students
As a solo librarian, student library aides are a tremendous help to me in the library. I normally have a few students each year that are interested in helping out in the library, sometimes this has been very successful and other times not so much. This year I decided...
by The Modern Librarian | Working with Students
One of the things I love about the library profession is how collaborative we are and willing to share ideas and resources. I love visiting other libraries and meeting with other librarians to learn about all the great things they are doing in their libraries. Last...
by The Modern Librarian | Working with Students
The end of the school year quickly approaches, activity in the library starts to wind down and we have students turn in all their library materials, but what if we let students check books out over the summer? As a high school librarian that works in a fairly rural...
by The Modern Librarian | Working with Students
I recently had a few classes in the library that needed to choose books for projects. One of the projects was how technology affects society so I selected dystopian and science fiction books and the other class had to choose either a fiction or non-fiction book on...
by The Modern Librarian | Apps/Programs, Working with Students
This past week I worked with our freshman class to show them how to use EasyBib. The majority of them have used EasyBib before to create their bibliography, but I recently purchased a subscription to EasyBib for the school that allows students to not only cite their...
