I now send email notices via Destiny Catalog to all families with overdue materials. Lots of overdue materials are either returned or renewed after the parents
receive the emails. I was able to set this up using parent data from PowerSchool (management system our district uses). The person in charge of PowerSchool in our district was the one who moved the data for me. I either don’t have the ability in PowerSchool
to do it or I simply could not figure it out. If this sounds like a good idea check to see if your library management system has the ability to send emails and then check to see if your district’s student data system can import it into the library system.
It’s been so effective at CHS that I don’t even bother with PA announcements anymore.
Julie
Julie Yulo-Medeiros
School Librarian
Virtual High School Site Coordinator
Cromwell High School
34 Evergreen Road
Cromwell, CT 06416
860.632.4841 Ext: 14830
jyulo@cromwell.k12.ct.us
I am currently reading Switch by
Chip & Dan Heath, The Circle by
Dave Eggers and The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. What are you reading?
From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces@mylist.net]
On Behalf Of Lynn Rappaport
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:55 PM
To: casl-l@mylist.net
Subject: [CASL-L] The nitty gritty of "end of the year" - getting those books returned
Colleagues:
What clever gimmicks have you used to get students to return books short of walking the halls with book carts, begging, bugging students, parents and teachers via email and/or EDMODO, or desperate repetitive PA announcements…
Our school is pre - K thru 8th grade.
Environmental Sciences Magnet School @ Mary Hooker