Volunteer Activity
at Library Resources

The Anchorage School District library program...

*Serving over 49,000 students in 87 schools and all educators, staff, and community members in the Anchorage area.
* Housing over 1.2 million items collectively in Anchorage School District libraries.
* The most comprehensive collection of children and young people's literature in Alaska
The Anchorage School District (ASD) school libraries use SIRSI's Unicorn OPAC (online public access catalog) information retrieval system.

Each school library has a site specific library index as well as access to the districtwide union catalog. You can see the ASD library index on WebCAT.

Collections include:

Electronic databases feature:

*Atlases

 *Music scores *Encyclopedias
*Beloved books *Nonfiction *Full text periodical titles
*Big books *Periodicals *Internet access
*Computer software *Reference *World Book
*Everybody books *Slides *Alaska Databases
*Fiction *Sound recoriding *SLED (Statewide Library Electronic Doorway)
*Filmstrips *Story collection
*Kits *Videos
*Maps

Volunteer work is needed for information retrieval projects with all schools, preparing library material for the schools and updating the automated indexing system. Tasks include working with computers, alphabetizing, making spine labels, adding barcodes, searching bibliographic citations and using the Internet. Training is provided.

Interested in helping the Anchorage School District with library support? Call 742-6094 to let us know you want to volunteer and talk with Sharon to schedule your involvement.

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Last update: 11/26/02 - webpage maintained by sue hutchison