Library Annual Report 2017-2018

• Genre-fication of our library (began in August & finished in May).
• Presenting our EBSCO databases and Sacramento Public Library services to our students and their parents at Parent University in September.
• Hosting a successful Scholastic Fall Book Fair with our volunteer student Book Crew.
• Presenting The Right Question technique with Karin Westcom to staff at various times during the year.
• Hosting Maker Mondays in the main library to encourage our students to enjoy our future Makespace.
• Collaborating with Sal Lascola and his students, Nancy and Jarlene on a design for our upcoming Library Makerspace.
• Continuing to work with John Pellman and CTE teachers at MTHS to plan and design a Makerspace.
• Hosting a successful Wizard of Oz-themed Scholastic Spring Book Fair with our student crew.
• Honoring my colleague of 15 years, Annette Klein, as she retires from education.

Our library team anticipated that the library would not be used as heavily this year as it has in the past for classroom visits. English/Language Arts were implementing a brand new curriculum, Studysync. Although this department is our heaviest user, we anticipated that classes might not visit the library as frequently while teachers learned the curriculum and figured out where library skills would fit into their lessons. This year 237 classes visited the library to conduct research or participate in book talks. Of those visits, English Language Arts classes visited 147 times. Mr. Corpuz's Science classes visited 35 times. History 7 Honors visited 28 times, and AVID classes visited four times. Mrs. Stern's Functional Life Skills classes made regular visits to select reading books.

Our library opens at 7:30 a.m. and closes at 3:30 p.m. every day except Thursday. Thursday is the Professional Learning day for both Monterey Trail High School and Edward Harris, Jr. Middle School. On Thursdays, we are open during the school day and during all lunches but closed before and after school. In the library, students have access to over 100 computers, and free printing and copying. We have over 44,800 books available for student and staff check out. Students have access to our electronic catalog, databases, and other digital tools via our library website. Most of these tools such as NoodleTools, EBSCO databases, Grolier Online, and Culturegrams are accessible to our students outside the walls of our campus to assist students with homework or research at home. Sadly, our Destiny catalog, e-books, and WebPath Express are not yet accessible to students off campus though capabilities exist.

We continue to have a liaison with the Sacramento Public Library. During our first Parent University program, we provide public library card applications for students and their families. These applications are processed by Elsie Mak, from the Elk Grove branch, and the cards are delivered to our campus for distribution. Usually, Elsie Mak or Nathan Milos attends Readapalooza, our family reading event, to promote Sacramento Public Library services and local events.

We continue to notify parents and guardians of our students about overdue materials with mailings in August, February, and April. Notices were delivered to Advocacy classes to be distributed to students with overdue items. Our library technicians also made phone calls periodically to encourage the return of textbooks and library books.

This year I worked with our Curriculum Coach, Karin Westcom to present professional development on The Right Question's question formulation technique. We presented during Preservice and during two of our regularly scheduled staff meetings.

I collaborated with History Honors 7 teachers, Alison Bliss and Anthony Sanchez, using Guided Inquiry Research methods. Their classes came to the library regularly to research topics surrounding the Middle Ages. Mrs. Mager and I collaborated on a Title IX project using Guided Inquiry Research with her English Learners. Mrs. Green and I collaborated on an African American History research project using Guided Inquiry methods and The Right Question's question formulation technique with her Connections students. Daniella Hill and Jennifer Jenkins continued the tradition of students researching people, places, and events of the Holocaust after reading The Diary of Anne Frank.

In anticipation of the permanent Makerspace we are planning for the library, we offered Maker Monday activities throughout the year. Students joined us for informal activities. Activities included littleBits snap circuitry, origami, zendala coloring, LEGOs, poetry writing, and Spirograph.

This year we continued to work with John Pellman, MTHS DATA academy students and their teacher, Sal Lascola, CTE teachers, and others to plan our permanent Library Makerspace. I am excited to see what the future holds!

Because we anticipated that class visitations would be down in the library due to English Language Arts teachers learning a new curriculum, we decided to physically relocate our fiction books into genre sections. We created categories:

• Action Adventure Survival
• Fantasy
• Historical Fiction
• Horror/Supernatural
• Humor
• Mystery/Suspense
• Realistic Fiction
• Romance
• Science Fiction/Dystopian
• Sports
• War/Military

Our library team sorted, classified, labeled, relocated, and changed records on every book in our fiction section. Now students who enter the library and say, "Where are your sports books?" can locate the books they desire in our Sports section identified by signage and color-coded labels. Our catalog now also lists our fiction books under a sub location. We will train our students next year to note the author and location when physically searching for their choices in the library when utilizing the catalog.

It was a huge job but we finished it at the end of the year, just in time for Annette Klein's retirement. Goal met!

• Continue working with Technology Services to add our Destiny catalog to the student and teacher portal or open up access beyond the walls of the campus for student use.
• Continue to promote Guided Inquiry Research and The Right Question's question formulation technique with colleagues.
• Continue to collaborate with library colleagues on best practices in our field.
• Work with interested staff and students to plan and promote our new permanent Makerspace.
• Assist my new library partner, Karin Ledford, transition into her position as the new MTHS teacher librarian.
• Begin planning for a Learning Commons design of our physical library space.
• Assist Karin Ledford with reimaging our library webpage.