AVL Back to School Quiz

This just in from the AVL Digest:

Thanks to the generosity of the AVL database partners and the technical expertise of the Alabama Supercomputer Authority, your library can win great prizes when your students use AVL databases to answer a few fun questions.HERE’S HOW YOUR SCHOOL OR PUBLIC LIBRARY CAN WIN! Beginning Tuesday, September 2, and continuing through Monday, September 15, invite, encourage, BEG your library patrons — especially students, to answer the questions in the AVL Back to School Quiz on the AVL website.Users will be asked to identify their LIBRARY or SCHOOL. This nominatesthe library or school for one of the great prizes! THEN, users will be asked to answer a few simple questions using the AVL databases. These are easy questions requiring only a simple keyword search in the suggesteddatabase. Please do not give out or encourage the sharing of answers — the real purpose of this activity is to encourage USERS to EXPLORE the wonderful AVL databases available to them.A prize will be awarded to at least one library or school for each of the five quiz categories. Winners will be randomly selected from entries in each category when the AVL Back to School Quiz ends September 15.Categories to receive prizes are:
ELEMENTARY School Media Center/Library
MIDDLE School Media Center/Library
HIGH School Media Center/Library
PUBLIC LIBRARY
COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

It’s easy — and FUN! Build this contest into your own Back to School celebrations and library orientation events to promote use of the AVL. PLEASE NOTE: The AVL Back to School Quiz is NOT available via remote access because one of its purposes is to encourage users to visit the library -so YOU can teach them about the AVL and demonstrate how to use it.The AVL Back to School Quiz will be GREAT FUN! Be sure to include it your back to school plans.

 

Walter J. Hanna

Thanks Lora and Sandra for having me out to visit Walter J. Hanna Library in Fairfield. I hope you, the staff and the local Fairfield school professionals found the presentation on local databases helpful!

 

Webjunction and APLS

 

Thanks to APLS, Alabama is now a community partner with WebJunction. As Alabama library staff memebers we can take advantage of an enhanced version of the site with access to online courses.

Some of the courses you will find include Access, Excel, QuickBooks, Project Management, Frontpage, Photoshop, and several University of North Texas Le@d Courses.

Visit www.webjunction.org to register. Select Alabama under ‘community partner affiliation.’

The site is still in development so check back often to see what’s new. Look for announcements from Webjunction and the Alabama Public Library Service.

 

Thanks Hoover Library Fiction Department!

I had the pleasure of presenting a session on Overdrive and Rosetta Stone to the Hoover Library Fiction Department on HPL’s Staff Day.

What a great library! What great people! I was invited to join the staff for lunch and I felt so welcomed. Everyone was very friendly. Thanks, Patricia for the invite!

 

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