The BOCES Library Media Services is looking ahead and keeping digital and technology resources current, while updating and maintaining traditional library resources as well. A team of eight people working together in “The Barn” at the Olean BOCES Center brings you thousands upon thousands of media resources available for schools to use on a daily basis. Diane Crater, Program Manager, and her staff (Rachelle Evans, Cindy Fox, Donna Gigliotti, Maggie Jensen, Ray Johnson, Lynn Kuc, and Ronda Turner) work diligently to offer world-class service of over 5,000 professional library titles, 14,000 bookable resources (including 10,000 videos), and 12,000 digital streaming videos to the BOCES centers and participating (COSER 501) school districts.
Some of the most recent acquisitions to the Professional Library include:
- Six titles for professional development suggested by Mike Sullivan at the recent “Connecting Boys with Books” Fall Membership Day for the Cattaraugus-Allegany School Library System
- Fifty titles from Mike Sullivan’s “Books for Boys” list for use in the classroom
New bookable and downloadable resources through MediaNet include:
- Ipods for playing downloadable audio and video
- Mp3 players for recording, pod casting and playing downloadable audio
- Robosapien robots to use with lesson ideas and/or video production instruction and camera
- Two extra “empathy bellies” that can be booked, for a total of three, from the “Baby Think It Over” resources (extras ordered due to popular demand)
- “Beyond our Borders”, a new cultural geography digital movie series featuring many countries from around the world
- Glenn Colton music albums, specializing in music for students
Maggie Jensen, the new staff specialist for the Library Media Services, is available and eager to train teachers on the use of the vast and varied resources. She can be scheduled for faculty meetings, in-service trainings, and on a one-to-one basis. Give her a call at 716-376-8260 or email her at margaret_jensen@caboces.org.
