1. LARNED HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
FEBRUARY MONTHLY REPORT
GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST PAM FITZGERREL, LIBRARY ASSISTANT
Interlibrary Loan Program
During the spring semester of
the 2008-2009 school year, the
library began the application
process to participate in the
statewide Interlibrary Loan
Program. This program allows
our high school students and
district staff the opportunity to
borrow books, audiobooks, dvds
and videos unavailable at our
library or local libraries from other
libraries in the state. In turn other
libraries involved in the state
Interlibrary Loan Program may Interlibrary Loan Program in borrowing and loaning items.
request items to borrow from our August 2010. Mrs. Fitzgerrel was
library. instrumental in this process
As part of our preparation
In the 2009-2010 school year, as she worked in the
process, we developed a
the library staff spent time interlibrary loan department
basic interlibrary loan
cleaning our library catalog at a previous position. As a
request form for students
records in preparation for result of her experience, she
and staff to complete when
exporting them to the state card has been the overseer of this
they needed an item
catalog. Ms. Lehman and Mrs. program for the 2010-2011
unavailable in our library
Fitzgerrel also received training school year and will continue
collection. We also worked
from the Central Kanas Library to oversee the program in
on developing an interlibrary
System on the process of the years to come.
loan notebook detailing the
borrowing and lending resources procedures involved in (continued on pg. 2)
through the Kansas Library
Catalog. We officially started the
Mission
The Larned High School Library will be an
inviting, user-friendly hub providing
opportunities for active, engaging and
challenging learning for students and staff
through various media resources,
programming and collaboration. The LHS
Library will provide a quality program that
will enable students to be lifelong learners
and enhance the curriculum and
technology standards of Larned High
School.

2. LHS LIBRARY
INTERNET Learning technology integration
IDENTITY through Baker night class.
Card Catalog: Allows
students and staff to search
the collection at school or
home, access eBooks, renew
& place holds on books--
http://98.172.116.51/simple/?
sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404
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LHS Library Blog:
Information relating to
To date, we have had 55 loan requests of which only 4 could not filled
books, technology, events,
news and more--http://
due to the newness of the item being requested. In turn we have had 64
lhslib2007.edublogs.org/
requests to borrow materials from our library. Of those requests, we have
been unable to fill 10 mainly due to the item already being checked out to
LHS Library Facebook one of our own students. While many of the borrowing requests have
Page: Updates on events, come from other school libraries, we have also had requests from K-
programs, books and more-- State, Manhattan Public Library, Topeka Correctional Facility and Kansas
http://www.facebook.com/ Wesleyan University. We have even had a request from our own public
home.php?#!/pages/Larned- library.
KS/Larned-High-School-LMC/
221632271653 While our program is off to a good start, there is one drawback to the
interlibrary loan program--money. Financially, our school library pays
LHS Library Website: postage for mailing out any items we lend to another library and we pay
General information on postage for returning any items we have borrowed from another library.
library policies & procedures, The average shipping cost (at library rate) on these items is $2.63.
programs and Teen Advisory Currently, the library has no program for raising funds to overset the cost
Group--http:// of the Interlibrary Loan Program, which has cost just over $200 up-to-
www.usd495.net/ date. Other expenditures include mailing envelopes and labels. So, why
150620171264587/site/ continue a program that brings nothing in financially? To be honest, we
default.asp
could not afford to purchase all of the items we have requested from
LHS Library Delicious: other libraries for $200. This program allows us the opportunity to
Collection of bookmarks provide books to students and staff that they would never have access to
selected specifically for the through our library for the simple fact that we cannot purchase
needs of staff & students at everything. It also provides to research articles that can only be obtained
LHS--http:// through costly databases.
www.delicious.com/lhslib2010
Our future goals for the Interlibrary Loan Program include: finding
LHS Library Flickr: financial resources to cover the cost of the program, online request forms
Shared photos--http:// available through the library website and card catalog and increased
www.flickr.com/photos/ promotion of the program through the library website, emails and word of
socdownload/ mouth.

3. Data Snapshots
LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, FEBRUARY 2011
Total Circulation 576
9th Grade Circulation 86
10th Grade Circulation 73
11th Grade Circulation 40
12th Grade Circulation 68
Other 309
Card Catalog Total Page Hits 199
LHS Lib Facebook Page Monthly Active Users 50
Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 31
Interlibrary Loan--Loaned Total 4
Interlibrary Loan--Borrowed Total 4
Filled Denied
Total Resource Requests 47 4
Computer(s): Library Desktops 7 0
Computer(s): Laptops 35 0
Multi-media Cart/Projector 1 0
TV with DVD/VCR 0 0
Video Camera/Camcorder 2 0
Other 2 4
Having
fun in the
library!