Making your library the heart of your school

Presented by Mary Kelleher and Karin Kugel

Goal: To come out of the session with a working plan to make your library important in your school.

Example of Problems:
students not reading at grade level
narrowing the achievement gap
quality of open response answers

This session is using literacy to model the process of making the library important to the school.

Try to tie in all other library goals to the larger scale plan.

Our presenters attended a Big 6 conference over the summer. And we are all familiar with Big 6...so the seminar was structured around this research process.

1 Task definition: how can your library best support the neesds of your school
2. Information seeking: what resources will I use
3. Location and Access: how can I access these resources?
4. Use of Information: Action steps
5. Synthesis: How can I get others to buy into my plans
6. Evaluation: Was I effective in my actions?

Hints:
Set attainable goals
Set deadlines
Use resources
Always refer back to overarching goal
Make sure everyone knows about your mission and how it ties into the overall goals of the school.
Promote your programs
Put your library name on correspondence
Use vistaprint.com for professional looking library products
(you only pay for shipping)
Color code your newsletters

Handout for this session are on pages 119-126 in your binders