Copy of Overview of Destiny Library Resources for Armstrong Middle School (1)

Mrs. Torrance provides an overview of Destiny, a resource management system for libraries. She explains how to access digital and print resources, search for books, place holds, and utilize web path express for interactive learning. Destiny helps librarians manage collections, check-in/check-out books, track loans, and provides educational resources like homework helpers and current event spotlights. Students can access Destiny from anywhere with internet access, enhancing their learning experience beyond traditional textbooks. Hello, this is Mrs. Torrance. I'm going to give you a brief overview of Destiny the best I can. I do not have full access to it yet as I am not yet at the library, so I will show you what I can so you can help students when I'm not there. The first thing you want to do is log in to the website using your single sign-in and password, and then select the school, Armstrong Middle School or whatever school you are at at the moment. The first thing I'll show you that I don't have access to the digital resources or the resources list, but I do have access to the library search. Here are the students. You can help the students by looking up keywords, title, author, subject, series. Make sure that the location says Armstrong or whatever school you're at. Let's look up the keyword. Let's look up, I didn't mean to press that, hiking. If we look at the hiking, there's a few books from the library here at Armstrong. The Canyon's Edge, it shows the published date, the entrance level, accelerated reader, 4.8 is the level, and 101 is available. If a student wanted to check this out, they could. It tells you exactly where to find it, fiction, D-O-W. Now, the next one down between a rock and a hard place, you'll see that it says zero of one available, meaning that it is already checked out. If a student would like to check this out when it returns, you can put it on a hold or a waiting list for them. I wish I could show you what that is, but I cannot. Before we go on to the web path express, I want to let you know, what is Destiny? Well, Destiny allows students to access print and digital resources, including e-books, audio books, and interactive books. It can be accessed anywhere at any time, so as long as the student has access to a computer or a mobile device. So they can use it at school, at home, or anywhere in between, as long as they have some way to access the internet. The Destiny is a centralized resources management. It helps the librarian by providing a single web-based platform for managing all the library's entire collection of physical and digital materials. And it helps with check-in and check-in out of books, inventory management to know exactly what is in the library and what is not in the library, what is missing or damaged or what have you. And then it tracks also the loan periods, how long the student has had it, and any fines, maybe they forgot to return a book or returned a damage. So under web path express, I really like this page, the homework helper. So say a student has having trouble with cells and how they function. They can go on to this Destiny and look up this website. See it says website here. And it shows the functions of the cells. I like this homework helper because it's not just reading information and looking at pictures like in a textbook. This is more interactive, it has videos, it has charts, it has interactive pictures where they can actually click on different parts of the cell and it will explain what it is or show how it works. So it's much, much better than just reading about it in a textbook. Another thing that they have is things that are going on in the month. So right now we're in the month of November, so they talk about Thanksgiving and Veterans Day. And then Native American Heritage Month. So say the teacher is requiring the student to write a research paper. And you need them to help them find information on Native American. You can direct them to this site, the web, under Destiny, web path express, and then to Native American Heritage Month. And here you'll see lots and lots of different, a lot of different websites that can help the student find out more about the Native Americans. So here they talk about the 12 women to know for Native American Heritage Month. Maybe they're focusing on different women for their paper. So lots of good information there. Another thing I love is that it talks about things going on in the news. And they always have a spotlight. So right now they're saying goodbye to the US penny. We know that our teenagers and our students often get their information.