Where Do I Start? A School Library Handbook Second Edition

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25 Things You Need to Know
About School Libraries
Peter Doering
Supervisor Media Services
Santa Clara County Office of Education

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Where Do I Start?
A School Library
Handbook
2nd Edition

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What is your
Library Mission?
#10

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Library Mission
The mission of the library media
program is to ensure that
students and staff are effective
users of ideas and information.

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Providing
Information
Skills
Helping Promoting
Teachers Reading
Teach
Administrative Duties #9

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Room
Environment
#8

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Bulletin
Boards
#7

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Signage
#6

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Library
Orientation
#5

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Library Orientation Skills
1. How your library is organized:
• Give a tour of the library
• Fiction/Nonfiction- differences
• Dewey Decimal system
• Location of special collections
2. Library policies and rules:
• Care of books and materials
• Rules for behavior and consequences
3. How to check out materials:
• Procedures for check out
• Time period for checkouts
• Overdues and fines

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Library
Skills
#4

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Library Skills
1. Parts of a book/resource:
 Author, title, call number, etc.
2. Types of materials / How they are organized:
 Fiction/nonfiction
 Dewey Decimal System
3. How to find materials in the library:
 Use of the catalog
 How to search by author, title, keyword, subject
 Website

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4. How to find materials online:
 Online searching skills
5. How to use specific resources and
collections in the library:
 Printed materials – almanac, atlas, dictionary,
encyclopedia, and other specialized resources;
 Bibliographic information, indexes, table of contents;
 Databases – online searching skills specific to each
resource.

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Model School
Library
Standards

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Information
Literacy
Skills

29. Information Literacy
A broader set of library and
communication skills that enable a
person to:
Find
Understand
Evaluate
Use……………
……..information effectively

30. The Big6 TM
Step 1 – Task Definition
Step 2 – Information Seeking Strategies
Step 3 – Location and Access
Step 4 – Use of Information
Step 5 – Synthesis
Step 6 – Evaluation
www.Big6.com
CRLS Research Guide
http://www.crlsresearchguide.org/Big_Six_
Steps.asp

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Collection
Development
#3

32. Customers
 Who (students/teachers/parents)
 What Grades (elementary/secondary)
 Reading Levels
 Interest Levels
 What Languages
 Interests (girl/boys, fiction/nonfiction)

33. Curriculum
 Know what textbooks your school is
using
◦ Big projects
◦ Focus on subject areas
◦ District curriculum maps and guides

34. Collection Assessment
 Titlewise: www.titlewise.com
◦ Collection size
◦ Average age
◦ Number of titles per student
◦ Collection distribution (Dewey range)
 California Library Standards
 Run Reports
 What is being used
 Listen to your students and teachers

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Selection Policy
and
Challenge
Procedures

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Weeding

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Weeding
WHY WEED?
 No room for new materials on shelf
 Collection is unused and unattractive
 Full shelves give illusion of a good library
collection
 To correct mistakes in selection
 Maintaining unneeded materials is time
consuming

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Procedures for Weeding
1. Decide which materials need to be
removed
2. Remove the item from the shelf
3. Delete Catalog records
4. Stamp the book “Discarded”
5. Remove school markings
6. Check school policy for removal
7. Physically discard

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Building
Life-Long
Readers
#2

41. Accessibility
• Display
– Books face out
– Eye level
• Variety of Resources
– Magazines, newspapers, action cards, comics,
graphic novels
• Interest Level vs. Reading Level: Meet your
readers where they are
• Schedule
– Lunch, recess, and after school

42. Motivation
• Market titles/Books-to-film
• Lists of titles: Website resources
• If you liked…..
• What do I read next….
• Genres
• New book displays
• Book Talks

43. Competence
Curriculum/Teacher
Support
• Topic/Unit lists
• Promote new titles
• Announce award winners
• Ask for recommendations & input
• Support for current events
• Bibliographies

44. Experience: Modeling
• Oral Reading
– Before you read
– While you read
– After you read
• Language Play
– Poetry, riddles, word games
• Enthusiasm is Contagious!

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Library
Advocacy
#1

46. Events and Ideas
 Advertise in Newsletters
 Back to School Nights
 Announcements – Have Games
 Hold Contests
 Book Clubs
 Author Visits
 Just Get the Word Out – Every
Chance

47. Statistics
 Library usage
 Examine trends for ordering
 Reporting and justifying requests
 Database reports – a lot to choose from
 Classes/small groups/after school

48. Statistics
Time management
Tell the whole story. Include:
 Time spent on inventory
 Preparing bibliographies, pathfinders, etc.
 Troubling shooting computers
 Training assistants, students, volunteers
 Preparing overdues
 Shelving books
 Repairing books
 Purchasing/weeding
 Preparing for classes