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Library Update
What's been going on?
Back to the Library!
Thank you Dr. Hernandez for returning me to library work effective 11/29/21. I am grateful.
This update is meant to share what was accomplished between 11/29/21 and 1/25/22.
Book and e-Book Circulations
Class Visits & Lessons
Class visits were conducted with all 6th and 7th grade classes (and 8th grade cohorts A & B).
The purpose of these visits was to teach the following three lessons:
As a result of these lessons (and the students' creation of Library Wish Lists), the following circulation statistics ensued between 11/29/21 and 1/25/22:
- Physical books signed out of our library using the Library Wish Lists to locate books on shelves, check them out to students and deliver books to students' classrooms: 2,207
- e-books checked out of Sora: 3,738
- Book holds placed on Sora: 102
- e-comic books checked out of ComicsPlus: 3,191 (with individual logins) and 65 (with our generic school login. Total: 3,256
This brings our total circulations from 11/29 to 1/25 to 9,201.
Library Wish Lists
Sample Library Wish List
How Were the Wish Lists Used?
Because the library is being used as a classroom, the Library Wish List system was devised to enable the librarian to circulate books to students. The Library Wish Lists are organized by class into binders and are used by the librarian to track down books the students want to check out of the library. Once the titles are located, they are checked out to the student and delivered to their classroom. Book returns are facilitated by having Library Book Return boxes on each floor.
Physical Book Circulations Out of Our Library
Sora e-Book Circulations & Holds
ComicsPlus e-Comic Book Circulations
Creating Collections in Our Library Catalog
In order to facilitate catalog searching for the students (and Library Wish List creation), collections were created in our library catalog. A total of eighteen Collections were created.
Click on the Links Below To View a Few Collections...
- Collection: Cookbooks
- Collection: Self Care
- Collection: If You Liked the Wimpy Kid Series
- Collection: Fantasy
- Collection: Humor
In Addition to Lessons & Book Circulations ...
- Two library book orders totaling $9,484 were created and placed.
- Three large orders of graphic novels for distribution to students were created.
- Nine boxes of books that were ordered for students were distributed.
- Mosaic Classroom Collections were distributed to all 7th and 8th grade teachers.
- Universal Mosaic Collections webpage was created on the library website.
- How the Other Half Lives webpage created for Ms. Baumel to share the Jacob Riis book images with her students.
- Ms. Klioutchnikov's Playaways Page created so that her students can review available Playaways and select the sudiobooks they want to listen to.
- Weeding and organization of classroom library in Room 315.
- Coordinating the distribution of class sets of novels (Restart, Bridge to Terabithia and Absolutely Normal Chaos) to 6th grade ELA teachers.
In the 77 days between 9/9/21 and 11/24/21, the library website was visited 4,258 times.
Following my return to library work, in the 58 days between 11/29/21 and 1/25/22, the library website was visited 4,302 times.