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Welcome to the Stargate Library
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Reading Resources Library Information Library Blog
About the Stargate Library
Stargate Library will be a centralized, friendly, comfortable environment and quality resource for the entire Stargate community, that will assist all patrons in locating and obtaining resources quickly and efficiently through digital, local and state sources.
The Library is open every school day, a half hour before school, through the lunch/recess time and half hour after school, for reading and study or other quiet endeavors. Whether you are student, staff or parent, we can help!
- Books - find one or many - fiction or non-fiction - in this Library, throughout the school district, in local or even state libraries. Library holds 11,000 volumes listed in searchable on-line catalog
- Research - there are many resources in the Library which have not yet been tapped and there's so much more to on-line research than Google and Wikipedia
- Guidance on Fair Use, plagiarism and citations available.
- Information on Gifted and Talented issues, classroom materials and differentiation resources.
- Assistance with the use of the Stargate Website and Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, wikis, feeds, and social networking bookmarks
- Internet safety tips/strategies available for all ages.
- A safe, quiet and study space open from half an hour before school to half an hour after school ends, every day. Also open through lunch times for quiet activities.
- Instruction in effective Library skills and behavior for all grade levels.
- Six patron computers available for homework or academic research - drop in or schedule ahead.
- Coordinate S.W.A.T. team (Student Workers Assisting Technology)
- Coordinate the Stargate Founders Conference.
Valicia McPherson
Information Resource Coordinator
About me: I have been involved with Stargate since the school's inception when I coordinated all the hiring for the first three years. I left the school for five years, and returned with my youngest son in 2003. I spent two years volunteering in the Library and serving as the school's historian before accepting a full time position here. This will be my third year running the Library. Other than books, I am passionate about the collaborative potential of the Web.
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Valicia McPherson
7/31/2008
Even though I am not expected back to school for another 10 days, I have been very busy planning for the upcoming weeks. No, no lesson plans, but the Second Annual Stargate Founders Conference and a few staff presentations.
The Founders Conference, "Educating the Whole Child and Developing a Gifted Community," will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 at the school. Facilitated wholly by Stargate faculty and staff, it will address how an education at Stargate is different, how other parents and educators face the unique challenges gifted students present, and what techniques and strategies work well with this population. Volunteers are needed to help put this event on. Visit the planning Website or contact me in the Library.
Jennifer Burchill and I are preparing to familiarize the Stargate faculty with a variety of resources and tools from the Internet prior to school beginning. From rubrics to blogs, the 21st Century student world is changing, and we hope to help our teachers change with it.
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Research Links
There is more to research than Google or Wikipedia! Here are reliable, on-line resources available to the Stargate community. Check in the Library, or e-mail me for passwords.
EBSCO - available through Adams 12 (contact the Library for password to use from home): this is a great research tool, which searches magazines, newspapers, books and encyclopedias, TV transcripts, primary source documents and much more.
WorldBook Online - available through Adams 12 (contact the Library for password to use from home) - the classic World Book Encyclopedia - online!
Ask Colorado - State Library program - 24 hour live chat with a Librarian and many other homework help and research links.
Enchanted Learning - Great resource for many elementary homework projects. Has over 20,000 web pages containing activities, pictures and information for a wide variety of subjects.
Resources for Suggested Reading
ALA: Young Adult Library Services Association - Best Books for Young Adults award winning booklists .
Books for Children, About Gifted Children - on Hoagies Gifted Education page
California Reading List- a searchable database with books listed by difficulty level.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - great site with reviews of great books for children and ideas on how to use them.
GT World Reading Lists - books listed on a continuum, rather than by age or grade, from an online support community.
Literature Map - a graphic way to get reading ideas. Fill in the name of an author, get names of authors that other readers have also read. Fun and interesting!
Reading is Fundamental - searchable database of books and suggestions for activities to promote reading.
Libraries
Search catalogs or take advantage of research links
Broomfield - Mamie Doud Eisenhower Public Library
Brighton/Thornton/Northglenn - Rangeview Libraries
Westminster - College Hill Library
Colorado Virtual Library - access to all Colorado libraries.
Stargate Library Affiliations
Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented (CAGT)
National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
American Library Association (ALA)/American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Colorado Association of Libraries (CAL)/Colorado Association of School Librarians (CASL)
Colorado Young Adult Advocates in Libraries (C'YAAL)
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