What’s New at SCSLShae Tetterton

803-734-8663

stetterton@statelibrary.sc.gov

IM: ShaeTett

Felicia Vereen803-734-8645

fvereen@statelibrary.sc.gov

IM: fdvereen

New DirectorDavid Goble

New Vision

• The South Carolina State Library is a national model for innovation, collaboration, leadership and effectiveness. It is the keystone in South Carolina’s intellectual landscape.

New Mission• We optimize South Carolina’s investment in

library and information services.– Supporting good governance for South Carolinians through the

provision of research and information services to elected officials and state government personnel.

– Providing equal access to information for all South Carolinians. – Ensuring collaboration and cooperation among information providers

and cultural institutions.– Defining standards for libraries and librarianship that promote

professionalism and excellence among library personnel statewide.– Providing and promoting superior library and information services

through research, development and implementation of leading edge practices.

– Advocating for innovation and learning in order to create a better informed and more highly skilled South Carolina citizenry.

Strategic Planning

• New Structure

• Services

• Programs

Spanish Language Outreach

• SPLASH! Launching Successful Spanish Outreach Programs at Your Library

• Equip library staff with knowledge and resources to reach out to Spanish speakers

Spanish Language Outreach

• Funded by WebJunction/OCLC grant

• Workshops for public library staff

• Paid institutional memberships to REFORMA

• Eligibility to participate in a grant funded program in 2009

SCSL 2.0

• Second Life

• YouTube

• Flickr

• IM

• MySpace

• Educational game technology

SCSL in Second Life

New DISCUS Website

http://www.scdiscus.org/

SchoolRooms• An online learning portal for the entire K-12

community.• Brings together the best content from all sources

into a single search interface.• A user-tested interface that includes educator-

selected, standards-based content.• Offered by SirsiDynix, a leader in Library

Automation: http://www.schoolrooms.net/

SchoolRooms Content• 70+ virtual rooms of content.• Content organized by audience: Elementary,

Middle and High School Rooms, as well as Educator, Librarian and Parent Guides.

• Approximately 23,000 links to high quality, educational web resources.

• More than 5 million web pages being crawled by the Best of Web index.

• Also includes videos, audio recordings, digital images, photographs, educational games, etc...

SchoolRooms Implementation• A statewide implementation, much like DISCUS,

for SC’s public libraries and schools.• The State Library is serving as the test library.• 10 Pilot Sites will assist with best practices for the

implementation.• DISCUS databases and library catalogs will be

integrated, in addition to state specific content.• An online registration system is being developed to

allow for immediate access to all of our electronic resources.

• Official statewide launch scheduled for Fall 2008.

Questions?