The card catalog in the Dan D. Rogers Elementary library has gone the way of the Brontosaurus. It’s officially extinct.

This fall, Rogers became the first DISD elementary school to go online with the Dynix Scholar computerized library circulation and catalog system.

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“Rogers was picked as a benchmark school because our library/media center has a good reputation and because we’re very multi-cultural,” says Cathy Roach, the school’s media specialist.

Here’s how the $30,000 system works:

Students are assigned a personal barcode, and they log on at the circulation computer and look up books by subject, title and author. After locating the book they want, they check it out by sliding the book across a sensor. The book is automatically registered as a “checked out” on the circulation computer.

“It’s frustrating for kids to look in the card catalog, then go look for a book and not find it because it’s checked out,” Roach says.

“Kids love our new system because its easy and fun, it will turn them on to reading. That’s my real goal. I’m interested in teaching them to love to read. This system is a step toward that.”

Roach, the only librarian given an Apple of the Month Award by Positive Parents of Dallas in 1992-93, spent two weeks last summer entering a bar-code for each of Rogers 650 students and 7,000 books.

40 East Dallas Students Make DISD’s ‘A Team’

Forty students from J.L. Long Middle School and Woodrow Wilson High School were honored by the DISD last month for earning a spot on the district’s A Team. A Team students averaged 90 or higher in all subjects during the 1992-93 school year.

The students from Long were:

Guadalupe Chavez, Holly Compton, Dana Duryee, Alexandra Felicetti, Anna Florer, Andres Gonzalez, Tara Ingalls, Josefina Lopez, Haydee Martinez, Amanda Odeski, Emily Shaw, Sarah Shepard, Molly Sherman, Irma Urban, Patricia Wright, Erin Armstrong, Caroline Clore, Scott Donaghe, Christopher Gaspard, Macy Halford, Kevin Johnson, Deanna Lee, Jeremy Liebman, Matthew Liebman, Nancy Lira, Elizabeth Milbank, Janna Nelson and Amanda Platt.

The students from Woodrow were:

Zachary Redington, Elizabeth Vint, Knox Peden, Claudia Alday, Matthew Ball, Robert Hall, Amy Jones, Molly Brimer, Tate Henderson, Shannon McBride, Lara Johnson and Natalia Tello.

Five Schools Participate in Theater Program

Five neighborhood elementary schools are participating in an after-school drama club offered by the Dallas Children’s Theater.

The five schools include Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Hexter, Rogers and Lakewood.

The clubs, with 12 to 18 students, are led by professional theater actors. During the 90-minute sessions held once a week, students participate in creative dramatic activities.

For information on the program, contact the theater at 978-0110.

Sanger Schedules Geography Festival

The second annual Alex Sanger Elementary Geography Festival, featuring fun facts and culture concerning about 25 American states, will be held from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 9 at the school, near White Rock Lake at St. Francis and San Leandro.

Students will man booths that will provide parents and children information about each state’s industries, agriculture and history.

In addition, there will be a moon walk, dunking booth, petting zoo, hay and pony rides, a fire engine and food.

News & Notes

UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS: Four Lakewood students have been named University Scholars at SMU, making them eligible to receive up to $12,000 in scholarships over the next four years. The four are Michelle Stackhouse, Lisa Hensley, Judith Allen and Dana March.

WOODROWFEST: Woodrow students, parents and teachers will hold WoodrowFest from 5-8 p.m. Oct. 9 at Franklin Field near Hillcrest High School. The event, which feature a raffle, pinata game and entertainment, will follow the Woodrow football game with W.T. White.

Calendar

Oct. 21 – Lakewood Pre-school PTA meeting, 9:30 a.m. at Lakewood Elementary, 3000 Hillbrook.