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The Ohio School Libraries
Celebration
School Libraries: Helping Teachers Teach and Students Learn Acceptance
Remarks, INFOhio's 2000th Automated School Library Award
Mike Hockman, Manager, Software Application & Design
Great Oaks Institute of Technology and Career Development
April 28, 2004
Photo: Rich Skopin, OCLC
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We are extremely happy to become part of this
statewide INFOhio network of libraries. The library
automation upgrade to Sirsi will provide us with new access to thousands of other school
and public libraries across Ohio. We are equally
happy to share our career technical oriented collection with other libraries.
As part of our district’s literacy initiative, our
teachers have demonstrated time and again that Kurzweil provides students the tools they
need to improve their reading speed and comprehension that make it possible for them to
learn and study independently. In this way, it has helped improve their academic
experience, their ability to function effectively in the workplace and the quality of
their daily lives.
In addition, this initiative is proving instrumental for both
classroom and standardized assessments. Kurzweil not only reads questions and answers
aloud from texts and Web sites, it allows students to type answers directly onto the image
of a scanned test, thereby offering more independence for both the student and teacher. |
Through the grant, we are able to install 40 Kurzweil computer
stations in our cybraries potentially reaching thousands of high school students and
adults.
Sincere thanks go to INFOhio, OELMA, our President/CEO Dr.
Robin White, our Senior Vice President Steve Jackson, the Hamilton/Clermont Cooperative
Association, our cybrarians Robin Hoelle, Jennifer Davis, Marcia Bilovecky and Candy Cook,
and Susie Rutkowski, our manager of disability education. Special
thanks also to Karen Coy for her assistance in getting our online catalog ready for
conversion to Sirsi and Ann Tepe for so artfully coordinating the grant.
Thank you for the award. |
