Join the OHE Library Birthday Book Club…
The
Birthday Book Club is a great opportunity for the families of Oak Hill
Elementary to help build our library collection. In order to
participate, all you have to do is donate $12.00 to the Oak Hill
Library during the month of your child’s birthday. Your child will then
come to the library to pick out a special Birthday Book Club Book from
our vast collection. Once they have selected their Birthday Book, a
bookplate with your child’s name and birth date is placed inside the
book and they are able to check it out to show their friends and
family. A photograph of your child with their Birthday Book is taken
and posted in the hallway before they are given a special certificate
to mark the occasion. The book should be returned to the library in a
timely manner so it can continue being circulated for all students to
read and enjoy. The best thing about the Birthday Book Club is that
all monies donated will be used to purchase additional books for our
library!
Yes! We want to participate in the Birthday Book Club. Fill out this form and send it in with your child or drop off at the
library:
Library Birthday Club Form SIRSI DYNIX / IBISTRO
Want to know if we have a book
or find certain books of interest BEFORE you come to the library?
Well, just log onto AISD's online
library catalog (SIRSI DYNIX...or as we like to call it...ibistro) and
search Oak Hill Library's collection.
Go to http://ibistro.austinisd.org
and click on Oak Hill. Students can search by author, title, or subject.
They can also find books similar to the
books they already enjoy by using the "find more books by this author"
or "find more books on these topics" options once they are inside
the book's record.
Students can even make a list (like a shopping
cart) by selecting KEEP as they find books they like. Students can either
print this list or write down the call numbers of the books they want so
they are prepared ahead of time for their next visit.
We continue to practice with this tool in
the library day, but if YOU are interested in learning a little more,
stop by the library, and I can give a quick tutorial so you and your family
can use it at home.
Looking for some safe educational online
resources to help with research or to learn more on a topic of interest?
A great feature of our online catalog is
the Knowledge Portal, AISD's FREE available databases.
AISD Library Online Resources
2009-10
To access these resources from school, no
login is needed. Open a web browser and type in ibistro in
the address bar
select “Knowledge Portal.”
However, to access these resources at
home, you will need to follow the instructions below:
Go to http://ibistro.austinisd.org.
Click on your school
Click the tab labeled “Knowledge Portal”
to access these resources.
Use the Login ID and
Password when prompted
**due to internet sharing safety, CONTACT
MS. UNDERWOOD at sunderwo@austinisd.org or 512-414-5151 specific username/password
Throughout the year, I try to introduce different
databases to the students through lessons that correlate with what they
are learning in the classroom.
Curriculum Resource Center:
This resource offers biographical information
(with photos and other reproducible handout materials), historical information,
flags, timelines, career information, science project experiments
and science diagrams.
We have not used this in the library yet
this year, but may be a good spring board at home to get ideas or background
information for projects.