The Falcon Library 3 year plan
Issues to be addressed
When Mrs. Frazier arrived in February 2014 -
- Students felt unwelcome in the library as did many of the teachers and staff. People looked scared when they came in the door.
- The librarian was not teaching nor collaborating.
- The resources available were grossly out of date.
Ultimately - the library was dead. No classes, few students, and low circulation numbers.
So what is the solution?
Welcome
Our attitude is different. There is no gatekeeper shhing and scowling and no one guarding the laminator key. It is our Falcon Library and together it will be an exciting place to learn, connect, and grow. The tone starts with the librarian and is enhanced through the library staff and the physical space.
Instructional Partner
Librarians are not merely inventory clerks or technology trouble shooters. Sure, both those roles happen, but a great librarian teaches information skills, provides staff developments, offers readers advice, and provides programs to teens.
Collection Development
The average age of the Falcon collection is 1993. This means the collection is neither timely nor relevant. The best hope? Weed to ensure the materials are high quality and accurate while adding new materials in books and ebooks to enhance student reading and allow whole classes to access titles on the chromebooks.
By the time these classes graduate we will:
Welcoming Goals
- Create student book club.
- Purchase comfortable seating to encourage patrons to stay, learn, and connect.
- Provide English II classes bi-weekly sessions on information skills and research.
- Work with the technology facilitator to help find resources for teachers and reach at least 10% of faculty.
Collection Goals
- Heavily weed the collection to remove books which are not accurate, relevant, or are in poor physical condition.
- Begin purchasing 20 ebooks with unlimited access for use various departments.
- Add at least 25 new fiction titles each quarter.
- Provide at least 40 non-fiction titles per year in subject areas which are under-developed.
- Design long term collection development plan.
Welcoming Goals
- Create an advisory board to meet at least once a quarter.
- Create new displays for the library at least once a quarter.
- Provide teen programming once a quarter.
- Teach collaboratively with at least 4 teachers.
- Work with the technology facilitator to help find resources for teachers and reach at least 30% of faculty.
Collection Goals
- Have an ebook collection of at least 20 titles in social classroom use. Add 10 titles.
- Provide at least 35 new fiction titles each quarter.
- Provide at least 50 non-fiction titles per year in subject areas which are under-developed.
Welcoming Goals
- Administer action research to find areas for improvement in customer service.
- Provide teen programming on a monthly basis.
Instructional Goals
- Teach collaboratively with at least 6 teachers.
- Work with the technology facilitator to help find resources for teachers and reach at least 50% of faculty.
Collection Goals
- Have an ebook collection of at least 35 titles for classroom use between departments.
- Provide at least 45 new fiction titles each quarter.
- Provide at least 60 non-fiction titles per year in subject areas which are under-developed.
How many goals have we met for 2015?
Welcoming Goals
- Create student book club - Done and meeting monthly
- Purchase comfortable seating to encourage patrons to stay, learn, and connect. - Done
Instructional Goals
- Provide English II classes bi-weekly sessions on information skills and research. -Half Done. Ms. McCollum's students are coming in every two weeks and Ms. McCoy is ready to start in the new school year.
- Work with the technology facilitator to help find resources for teachers and reach at least 10% of faculty. - Done 15%
Collection Goals
- Heavily weed the collection to remove books which are not accurate, relevant, or are in poor physical condition. - Getting Done - Weeded 950 books so far
- Begin purchasing ebooks with unlimited access for use in the science and social studies departments. Ten per department. - Funds promised, order in process
- Add at least 20 new fiction titles each quarter. - Funds promised, order in process
- Provide at least 40 non-fiction titles per year in under-developed subject areas. - Funds promised, order in process
- Design long term collection development plan. - Waiting - easier to develop based off this years purchases.