GOAL : Communication

Objective: Keep parents, teachers and students informed about library services.

•  Parents

• •  Progress reports

•  Teachers

• •  Memos

•  Students

• •  Bulletin Boards
•     Bookmarks

Objective: Share professionalism with library intern.

• Kay Homer, MU Master's program

 GOAL : Collaborate Projects with CORE curriculum.

Objective : Integrate information skills into the curriculum with collaborative lessons.

•  Grade 7/8

 GOAL : Promote Literature

Objective: Create attractive displays to promote reading

•  AR

•  Best Practices

•  Games introduced in lessons

•  Think Tac Toe: diversity

 GOAL : Maintain professional visibility

Objective: Participate in extra curricular activities

 GOAL : Align curriculum with standards.

Objective : Revise curriculum map to include ANCHORS

•  Add to lesson plans

•  Curriculum map was lost with new server

Activities

SOS Brochure: Parent Orientation

Book Fair: $1800 total ($500 free books)

Scholarship Challenge with Benton

Bulletin Boards: Let Freedom Read

                        Our Books Offend Everyone

Amazing Reading Race

AR Reader Wall of Fame

Literary Couples

Read Across America

  Displays

•  Banned Books

•  Black History Month

•  New Books

•  Information: NonFic

•  Teen Reads / Web Reviews

**Improvement needed:

•  Memos to teachers

•  POWER library reminders and Professional Magazine table to contents

Intern activities:

• MARC Magician set up and recalibration of cataloging records.
• Assisted with all lessons

Collaborated projects:

Intern: Kay Homer:

Hawthorne : Gettysburg Collaboration (Think Tac Toe)

Wolfe – Robotics

Delosa : current Events / Geo projects

Ward : Drugs

Cummings : Informative / Persuasive essays

Wesneski : Living History

Wolfe : NASA

Benton : Scientists / diseases

Heasley : Plants/Diseases

Wile : Favorite groups

Literature Promotion Activities:

Battle of the Books – postponed this year because the coordinator resigned in Loyalsock

Amazing Reading Race: 25 participants 5-8

Plaque ordered: 500 and 100 point clubs

Booktalks: Black History Month grade 7

Newbery Awards grade 5 and6

Mrs. Pulver's Reviews: grade 7

NonFiction – grade 8

NOVELIST: grades 7 and 8

Banned Books

AR Cart: Once per marking quarter

Reichard: AR promoted through reading classes

Visibility activities:

•  Yearbook

•  Library Club

•  Anti-Bullying Program

•  Professional Development Committee

•  Student Assistance Program

Curriculum map activity:

January professional day used to discuss ANCHORS and begin “adopting” them across the curriculum  

Add an extra column to lesson plans

ADD ANCHORS to refocus lessons.

GOAL : Maintain Library Professional Visibility

Objective : Offer opportunities to keep teachers informed

•  share from workshops attended

• organize small group sharing sessions

 GOAL : Personal Growth

Objective : Attend workshops and conferences to keep

Informed about updates in POWER library or best practices in teaching.

Activities:

Workshops offered

Feel empowered@your Library

Differentiated Instruction : Corey Kotner

MAC class and Teacher workshop

Committees: SAP committee

Credit Union

Professional Development

Reading Discussion Group : Organized the summer prof. reading program and discussion

Queen Bees / Raising Cain / 56 Tips / Covey's 7 Habits for Teens / What My Mother Doesn't Know

Attended :

Access PA: annual Fall meeting in Williamsport

• AP/Accunet
• Roth Publishers
• Gale Products

PALS Consortium meeting

Wellness Day: winter indoor inservice day activities:

•  Walking

•  Fit ball exercises

•  Exercise motivation

•  Back strengthening exercises

GOAL : Review Collection Growth vs Population

Objective : Prepare a report comparing TMS library with

Pennsylvania libraries of like size and population.

• Accessions / Collection Development
• Budget

GOAL : Assess collection professionally

Objective : Use the new services offered by Titlewave

• Needs
• Programs
• Library Use
• Circulation Stats

GOAL: Inventory the collection

Objective: Use statistics gathered through inventory to improve the collection.

GOAL : Purchase materials

Objectives : Access materials using selection policy guidelines.

Activities:

Consult latest (2005) PA. Guidelines for School Library Programs published by Commonwealth Libraries to compare budgets and holdings.

Follett Professionally prepared Collection Assessment

MARC: Mitinet Magician: Recon collection

Israeli Visitor: Grade 6 (Jan)

•  Inventory Report

•  Adds

•  Deletes / Lost items

Prepared Follett Annual Order using collection development component focusing on:

•  Mr. Wile's new assignment

•  Science updates

•  student requests for

•  hobbies,

•  hunting,

•  baseball tips

•  missing series titles

•  Current events: War in Iraq

Read reviews for NEW fiction

Consulted with

•  5 th and 6 th grade teachers

•  Mrs. Cummings

•  Mrs. Reichard for suggestions and observations of students reading interests.

GOAL: Maintain Library Web Page

Objective: Design new pages and update old ones

• Web page design
• Bullying program / collaboration
• Pathfinders

Activities :

Added: Seasonal Activities

Lesson Plans via Contribute

Pathfinders created for Scholarship Challenge