April is Poetry Month at IST. The Spoken English committee is organizing poetry recitals for the elementary and secondary schools on Friday, 27 April. To help the elementary students prepare for it, our library sessions this week have centered on the elements of an excellent oral performance. Michael Rosen, UK Children’s Poet Laureate from 2007 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'OPAC'
Fractured Fairy Tales
March 26th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Elementary Topics
What happens after a fairy tale ends? What do Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Jack, the Giant and the Three Little Pigs do for fun? What if Sleeping Beauty were a dragon? What if the Frog Prince likes being a frog and wants to be changed back? If you’re looking for the answers to [...]
Tags: 2011-2012·genre·Grade 4·languagearts·OPAC
Scholastic Book Club Orders Arrived
February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · 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 [...]
Focus on Sebastião Salgado
February 6th, 2012 · No Comments · General Topics
Periodically on our blog, we will highlight some part of our very impressive and growing library collection. This week, our focus is on Sebastião Salgado, the extraordinary Brazilian photographer who celebrates his 68th birthday this week. Come to the circulation desk to check out any of these works: Here is a brief biography from Oxford Reference [...]
Tags: 2011-2012·arts·OPAC·photography·visualarts
Get to Know Your Library OPAC Main Page
November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
What can you do with the library OPAC? OPAC stands for Online Access Public Catalog and it is a public and online listing of all the materials we have in our library collection. Thanks to the joys of living in the 21st century, we can view and search for titles in our collection from the [...]
New Library OPAC Login
August 24th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
This year, we’ve merged the ID data on our ID cards to the library OPAC. This means that now you can login with your name and your ID card number. It’s very easy. First, go to the library catalog. From school, the URL is http://172.30.2.2. From home, the URL is http://60.29.119.90. Clicking on the images [...]
Is the Power Out? The Library is In!
January 15th, 2011 · No Comments · General Topics
We had an unexpected day off on Friday thanks to a power outage in the Jinnan District, but our library is open as always. Do you want to catch up on current events? Visit Our Little Earth, an international newsletter for students from grades 3 and up. Click here for an archive of past issues. [...]
Tags: current events·OPAC
How Grade 3 Found Creation Stories
December 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Elementary Topics, General Topics
Grade 3 students came this morning during their language arts time to find creation myths. Those are stories that tell how things came to be. For example, Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, or How Spider Got Eight Legs. To find these books, the grade 3 students used the library OPAC and clicked on Resource [...]
Our Library Catalog Brings You the Latest News
June 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Elementary Topics
Are you an elementary student interested in current events? Are you a parent looking to keep your children abreast of what is happening in your home country? Are you an elementary teacher looking to motivate your students in reading for purposes outside of the classroom? We have put together a collection of news sites for [...]
