Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: What’s New at SCSL Shae Tetterton Felicia Vereen 803-734-8663 803-734-8645 stetterton@statelibrary.sc.gov fvereen@statelibrary.sc.gov IM: ShaeTett IM: fdvereen
2. Slide 2: New Director David Goble
3. Slide 3: New Vision • The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina’s intellectual landscape.
4. Slide 4: New Mission • We optimize South Carolina’s investment in library and information services. – Supporting good governance for South Carolinians through the provision of research and information services to elected officials and state government personnel. – Providing equal access to information for all South Carolinians. – Ensuring collaboration and cooperation among information providers and cultural institutions. – Defining standards for libraries and librarianship that promote professionalism and excellence among library personnel statewide. – Providing and promoting superior library and information services through research, development and implementation of leading edge practices. – Advocating for innovation and learning in order to create a better informed and more highly skilled South Carolina citizenry.
5. Slide 5: Strategic Planning • New Structure • Services • Programs
6. Slide 6: Spanish Language Outreach • SPLASH! Launching Successful Spanish Outreach Programs at Your Library • Equip library staff with knowledge and resources to reach out to Spanish speakers
7. Slide 7: Spanish Language Outreach • Funded by WebJunction/OCLC grant • Workshops for public library staff • Paid institutional memberships to REFORMA • Eligibility to participate in a grant funded program in 2009
8. Slide 8: SCSL 2.0 • Second Life • YouTube • Flickr • IM • MySpace • Educational game technology
9. Slide 9: SCSL in Second Life
10. Slide 10: New DISCUS Website http://www.scdiscus.org/
11. Slide 12: SchoolRooms • An online learning portal for the entire K-12 community. • Brings together the best content from all sources into a single search interface. • A user-tested interface that includes educator- selected, standards-based content. • Offered by SirsiDynix, a leader in Library Automation: http://www.schoolrooms.net/
12. Slide 13: SchoolRooms Content • 70+ virtual rooms of content. • Content organized by audience: Elementary, Middle and High School Rooms, as well as Educator, Librarian and Parent Guides. • Approximately 23,000 links to high quality, educational web resources. • More than 5 million web pages being crawled by the Best of Web index. • Also includes videos, audio recordings, digital images, photographs, educational games, etc...
13. Slide 14: SchoolRooms Implementation • A statewide implementation, much like DISCUS, for SC’s public libraries and schools. • The State Library is serving as the test library. • 10 Pilot Sites will assist with best practices for the implementation. • DISCUS databases and library catalogs will be integrated, in addition to state specific content. • An online registration system is being developed to allow for immediate access to all of our electronic resources. • Official statewide launch scheduled for Fall 2008.
14. Slide 23: Questions?