The School Library System (SLS), established by Commissioner's Regulations in 1985, is a fully state funded program. It supports the instructional program and informational needs of the students and staff in the public and non-public schools of the Genesee Valley BOCES region. An advisory council of librarians, administrators, technology representatives and teachers determine policy, and a liaison group of School Library Media Specialists representing each of the 22 public school districts and non-public school representatives determines procedures.
Christopher Harris, Coordinator, School Library System/Library & Media Services
Fish4Info is a next generation library portal that seeks to make the library catalog a socially engaging destination by integrating web 2.0 technology with the catalog.Fish4Info makes the library website an interactive social community, allowing students to lend their voice to the library community through book reviews, podcasts, forums, comments and tags.
Swift6Games is a collection of games linked to New York State curriculum standards including math, ELA, and social studies standards. We strongly believe that games provide a learning environment that presents a variety of new challenges, supports creative problem solving, and provides support for overcoming failure.
Andy Austin and Christopher Harris, co-authored the Drupal in Libraries Library Technology Report that provides a plain English approach to getting started with Drupal."Libraries are about content: acquiring it, storing it, indexing it, retrieving it, and presenting it. Content management systems help libraries accomplish these tasks on the Web by providing a back-end structure for a Web site so the authors can focus on content."
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