Library+Terminology

**Destiny** **TM** -- Follett Company's online public access catalog (OPAC) software which display librarys holdings of a specific library and can be viewed from any location via the Internet.


 * Dewey Decimal System** -- a numerical system designed by Melville Dewey for organizing library resources using 10 main categories and innumerable subcategories using 10s, 1s, tenths, hundredths, etc. It is used in most public and school libraries in the USA and in many countries around the world.

**Information Literacy --** the ability to formulate questions, locate and access information from a variety of media, use, critically evaluate, and synthesize information into one's own unique product.

**Library web page** -- provides information specific to the particular library via the Internet. OPAC ** -- Online Public Access Catalog; an organized computerized listing of resources in a library that aids the users in locating these resources using a variety of searching strategies.
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 * Teacher-Librarian -- ** A prefered term for us school librarians, as it expands our role from dispensers of books to collaborating teachers who work along side of other teaching professionals to help students achieve educational standards and anchors, stimulate a love for reading, model lifelong learning, and teach information literacy skills. We use a variety of teaching strategies to optimize learning and we work hard to develop library collections incorporating a variety of media to support the school curriculum and provide resources for students with a variety of interests and abilities.

**Web 2.0 --** my understanding of this is that it is a growing dimension of the Internet incorporating tools that allow for interactive communication and exchange of information. It includes blogs, wikis, chat rooms, etc. See [|Web 2.0 in School Libraries]