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 Educational Partnership 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."

Visiting Author Day – How to Meet with Success

When my school first joined the Visiting Author CoSer in 2006 I was excited about the opportunity for the students but also worried about how to go about pulling off a successful and memorable visit. The first thing I did was talk to Donna Katter about it and she gave me names of a couple of other librarians who had been having successful visiting author days for years. She suggested that I contact Carin Barwick at Geneseo Elementary and Jill Feine from Batavia John Kennedy to ask for ideas. I did this, and it was a big help. My two biggest suggestions to anyone who is planning a day are to start planning early and to get your faculty and staff involved.

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