GSSD Wikispaces Site
This blog site is an important way for me to communicate with you. The advantage is that you can access the information in an organized fashion at a later date. I will endeavour to post pertinent parts of the library newsletters throughout the year.
Our wikispaces site, http://gssdlibraries.wikispaces.com/ , is the place where we can collaborate and share information. Here are the latest additions to the wiki:
a) On the Destiny Support page instructions have been posted on how to create and to use temporary records for signing out materials that circulate so seldomly that it is not worth your time to catalogue them at the outset. An example could be magazine issues. With a temporary record you assign a temporary barcode to an item when a student brings it up to the circulation desk. With a few quick entries in the fields, you have created a record that will be erased once the material is returned. I hope we can demonstrate this at our next library inservice (likely January).
b) On the Fiction Genre Subjects page is a listing of different fiction subject headings that I would like to see standardized in GSSD. This list has been devised following our discussion in January. Please add the appropriate headings to your records when cataloguing. They don’t always come with records we import. Starting tomorrow I will be introducing these headings to classes when I do my Willow booktalks in grades 4 -9. Feel free to add other headings that you feel are useful.
c) On the Cataloguing Information page, we are going to start a list of Cataloguing Tips. Please feel free to add to this list when you spot an error cropping up in records. It will serve as reminders to us when we are cataloguing and help us to standardize our records.
d) This is not a new addition, but a reminder to add to our Collection Mapping page the titles of books you have recently purchased that fit the new curricula and would recommend to others. If we can populate that page, it will gain us some ground for our January inservice.