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How to view lists of new LRC materials and theme materials and book

them directly from the lists

From the school district home page (www.sd71.bc.ca) click on Destiny on the blue horizontal

toolbar just under the glacier.

The Destiny Welcome to Sch Dist 71 Courtenay screen appears:

Click on your school from the list. For this example, I clicked on Airport Elementary School.

The following screen appears:

You need to login to your school. Click on the word Login that is located on the top right-hand

side of the screen. The following screen appears:

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Log in using the same username and password as your school district e-mail.

The Destiny home page for your school will appear. (You will note that on the bottom of the

screen you have access to the district research databases. If you are at your school, you will

not need to login to use them. If you are at home, however, you will need to login. Clicking

on Passwords lets you see what they are for your particular school.)

To see the lists of materials available at the LRC, and be able to book them directly from the

screens that appear, click on the Catalog tab to the right of the green Home tab on the top of

the screen. The following screen will appear:

Click on Resource Lists. It is located on the left-hand side of the screen. The following

screen will appear with any lists that you have made for yourself.

Click on Public Lists, which is located in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. The

following screen will appear:

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Notice the “Owner(s)” column. The lists that Deb Lovett, LRC Library Clerk, creates state her

name as the owner. The lists that Deb and the District CSTs and Elementary Teacher

Librarian create together are entitled “LRC Staff.” Secondary Teacher-Librarians have access

to publish their lists across the district (i.e., the lists you see posted here by Ken Errico at

Vanier and Tracy Richards at Isfeld.) Randi Baldwin’s list of Airport’s resources on insects

appears here because I logged into Airport School as an Airport teacher. If you logged into a

school other than Airport, you will not see Randi’s list, as it was made public to her school site

only. When you log into your school you will only see the resource lists that your library clerk

has made public to your school.

Click on a list, such as LRC new resources – Nov 2014. The following screen will appear:

Notice that there are 2 screens of new materials for November. Only the first screen is

displayed. You need to scroll down to see all of the materials listed. To see the second

screen of materials, click on the “2” beside “Show All” in the upper right-hand corner.

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When you see an item that you wish to learn more about, such as the “Birch outdoor ramp” on

the first screen, click on it. The following screen will appear:

If you wish to book the Birch outdoor ramp kit, click on Book It! in the upper right-hand corner

of the screen. The following screen will appear:

Click on the arrows (<< month >>) in the calendar beside the month displayed to select the

month you want the kit for. Clicking on the arrows allows you to see when the kit is booked

(red) and when it is available. In the screen shot below I selected February as the month I

wanted the kit for.

Click on the exact date you would like the kit. I clicked on the 2nd of February in the calendar

and the date was automatically filled in on the left-hand side of the screen in the “From” and

“To” section.

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Notice the green tool bar across the top of the screen just under the Catalog tab. It shows

you the steps you took to get where you are currently. If you wish to search for and book

another item in the same resource list, click on “LRC New resources – Nov 2014.” If you wish

to search all of the LRC public lists, then click on “View Lists.” In this example I clicked on

“View Lists”:

Note that you can also click on the tabs on the left-hand side of the screen to do a Library

Search. Most of the elementary libraries have Library Search set as the default screen for

searches. Other options in this list include Destiny Quest and Universal Search. Destiny

Quest provides a different looking search screen for searches, which is popular at the

secondary level and provides a few more bells and whistles. Universal Search is the latest

way of searching that came with our recent Destiny upgrade. There are a few bugs to work

out with this way of searching, however, so we do not recommend it at this point in time.

Follet Shelf gives you access to our e-book collection, made available to every school

(teachers and students) in the district. Click on it and explore. I will put together an updated

step-by-step instruction sheet for e-books and hope to have it out shortly.

If you have any questions, your school library clerk would be happy to help you. You are also

welcome to contact me.

Joan Pearce

District Elementary Teacher Librarian

(250) 338-7926 ext. 4