Students and teachers at IST are principled inquirers. Among the many skills we possess as principled inquirers is that of citing our sources. Students from grade 5 and up are expected to maintain bibliography lists with the sources that they use in their school assignments. Along with their classroom and subject teachers, the librarians help [...]
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Bibliographies with EasyBib Now Even Easier
March 30, 2013 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
Tags: 2012-2013·academic honesty·citations·citing sources·grade 5·howto·principled·tutorials
Citation-Ready Sources for Elementary Students
February 17, 2013 · 1 Comment · 2012-2013, Elementary Topics
Last Tuesday, we had a parent session for grades 2 to 5 titled: Principled Inquirers in grades 2 to 5. One of the skills that principled inquirers use is giving credit to the sources that help them arrive at their answers. We call this “citing our sources” and each instance of that is a “citation.” [...]
Tags: 2012-2013·citations·citing sources·databases·howto·tutorials
Secondary Parent session highlights
November 21, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, Secondary Topics
We had an excellent turn-out for yesterday’s parent session. Our objective was to highlight the importance of academic honesty, define plagiarism, and walk parents through the how-to for accessing the Library OPAC and our subscription databases. Parents were shown how to use the Secondary Homework Log as a resource; use the Library OPAC as a [...]
Homework Help Workshop for Secondary Parents
November 14, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, Secondary Topics
Please register via the link on the left sidebar for the upcoming workshops.
Logging in to the OPAC? Watch out for the tree!
September 2, 2012 · Comments Off · 2012-2013, General Topics
We get a lot of calls, emails and texts from people who are trying to log in to the library OPAC but keep getting an error message. Maybe they’re trying to access our subscription database links and passwords, post a review, renew a book, or check their outstanding materials, but they just can’t get the [...]
Scholastic Book Club Orders Arrived
February 23, 2012 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, General Topics
The Scholastic Book Clubs orders we placed before the Chinese New Year break arrived this week. Thanks to the purchases of our community members, the IST library was able to acquire many excellent new titles for our library collection as well as many books for the ESL classrooms from grades 1 to 5. To see [...]
Tags: book club orders·books·howto·OPAC·tutorials
Reading the Spine of a Book
February 17, 2012 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, General Topics
Library books most often show their spines to the world. On the spine of a book you can see the title of the book, the author and the name or logo of the publisher. In addition to this, library books often have a call number label. At IST our call numbers are at the bottom [...]
BrainPop Goes Mobile
November 16, 2011 · Comments Off · 2011-2012, General Topics
The good news is if you are a student/parent/teacher/community member at IST, you can enjoy and learn from BrainPop, the educational database for kindergarten to grade 99, on your computers. This is a great resource that we make available to you through our library OPAC. A link to the library OPAC can be found at [...]
Got maps?
January 28, 2011 · 1 Comment · 2010-2011, General Topics
Students and teachers often need maps for school assignments. While maps can be found on Google Images, those used on school assignments should be from accurate, reliable sources such as the ones I will list here. Online databases The IST library subscribes to many online databases to support the learning that goes on in school. [...]
