[CASL-L] The nitty gritty of "end of the year" - getting those books returned

[Crowley, John]

We, also, use the combination of Follett Destiny & Powerschool.  We started by entering the student's and mother's email addresses in the appropriate fields of Destiny.  We would only enter emails for delinquent users. Next, we had our Powerschool manager give us a CSV spreadsheet of all with the email addresses and did a patron import into Destiny.  Also, since  virtually all of our (high school) kids have cell phones, I suggest that they enter the due date into their reminders or calendars

Sent from my iPhone

On May 28, 2014, at 8:14 AM, "Yulo-medeiros, Julie" <jyulo at cromwell.k12.ct.us<mailto:jyulo at cromwell.k12.ct.us>> wrote:

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 at cromwell.k12.ct.us<mailto:jyulo at 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 at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Lynn Rappaport
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2014 7:55 PM
To: casl-l at mylist.net<mailto:casl-l at 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.

Ideas?

Thanks,

Lynn


Lynn A. Rappaport
School Librarian
Environmental Sciences Magnet School @ Mary Hooker
Hartford, CT
www.environmentalsciencesmagnet.org<http://www.environmentalsciencesmagnet.org>



_______________________________________________
CASL-L mailing list
CASL-L at mylist.net<mailto:CASL-L at mylist.net>
http://mylist.net/listinfo/casl-l
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mylist.net/archives/casl-l/attachments/20140528/36339d5e/attachment.html>