OPAC stands for Online Public Access Catalog and means many resources for our patrons.
To help keep our students reading over the summer, IST has several online reading options. Our students in grade 1 to grade 5 have been learning about them in our library sessions this week and will continue with more options next week. One of our options is TumbleBooks, an online database with animated storybooks, chapter [...]
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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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
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 [...]
You’ll find lots of online reading options through our library OPAC. TumbleBooks and TumbleReadables – new ebook collection in June 2012 To access our newest eBook collection, you will need to log in to the library OPAC. Use your own personal account credentials or the quick login (included on our bookmarks and in the student [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
We are offering three short workshops on Wednesday, December 7 from 8:05 – 8:25 in the library. Please complete the form below if you would like to participate. PowerSpeak Languages: We will have a basic introduction to this language-learning database which supports students of Chinese, French, German, and Spanish. We will learn to log in [...]
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 [...]
“Konnichiwa! This means “hello” in Japanese, a phrase that will be heard throughout the morning on Friday 18 November. Why? On this day, IST will host a Culture Exchange Day with Grades 1 through 6 and 200 students from Tianjin Japanese School participating. This event will begin at 8:45 am and end at 11:45 am. [...]
