I just looked at the calendar, and we are not too far from winding down our year. What do you "seasoned" (or not so seasoned! :) have on your list of things to do before you close your library at the end of the year? I'd love to see your lists. Thanks!
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I just had to laugh out loud about reading shelves and library aides! I have about 15 student aides over a two day period and not one of them can shelve correctly. They can "read" a bookcase of six shelves in about 2.5 seconds! :)
Any ideas on how to help this lively bunch be a little more productive???
Besides doing a lot of the items already listed, I invite our public library's children's librarian to make a presentation to all of our classes about their summer reading program (we schedule 4 or 5 classes at a time in the library for 20-minute sessions and she also sends home flyers with all of our students). Our books are due 2 weeks before school is out, so she can get them excited about going to their "other library" to start getting books. I work at a primary school so we only serve Child Development, Kindergarten and First Grade students.
We do an annual report as well as a 4th quarter report to submit to Principal and head of the librarians and it includes statistics for the quarter and the year. We make up a summer reading list to be distributed by the district to students and the public library. We place our order for books, when we come back in September, they are in and ready for students and teachers. We get together the latest Reading Olympic books and if needed, order more. I take a box of books to read for the summer, I stay connected to my computer for the latest and greatest in the library and technology world. We just got an ActiveBoard so I will take an online tutorial and begin to create lessons for the fall. There are 2 librarians in my library because we have 2,000 students, that is why I say "WE". If you need me to send you our summer reading or reading olympic lists, let me know. Our clerks handles the overdues for students and getting the interlibrary loan straight for the year. We have a secretary and clerk who shut down the library because they work one week after we do.
Wow- a whole year has passed since I started this and now I'm back at it! What are the great things that you do to wrap up the end of the year? I know that Joyce V wrote a fantastic letter to Seniors this year.
Love it! I absolutely intend to do all the things on your list - every year for 34 years! The one that has never happened yet is the clean desk. Thank you for making me feel part of a group - the messiest people on earth!
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I really appreciate reading everyone's 'list' ideas, particularly the phone system one. I found that my school has one and that it will phone about books. (yahoo!)
One thing I do is to create summer reading lists for each grade level. For example, in grade 8 socials class one of the major topics is the Middle Ages, so I create a list of fiction books that would give students background knowledge in this area and I copy the list for every grade 7 student. Teachers will attach this list to the grade 7 report cards. I do the same for grade 9 and this year will try to get the incoming grade 6's a list (on Ancient worlds).
Our school also has a phone-home system (Connect-Ed is what we call it, but that term cannot seem to be googled...). I hope to use it for overdue books too.
Is it really the end of school? I still have a book fair and a videoconference to get through. I have not even thought of planning for the end of the year but there are some good ideas here. So, guess I have to start planning now. I have already completed a staff survey to see where teachers think the holes are in the collection.
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Any ideas on how to help this lively bunch be a little more productive???
What are you planning or doing? Please share!
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One thing I do is to create summer reading lists for each grade level. For example, in grade 8 socials class one of the major topics is the Middle Ages, so I create a list of fiction books that would give students background knowledge in this area and I copy the list for every grade 7 student. Teachers will attach this list to the grade 7 report cards. I do the same for grade 9 and this year will try to get the incoming grade 6's a list (on Ancient worlds).
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