Action Plan Template

You will find a template of the action plans in a google docs format.
This can be printed as is or to save as a word/excel document press Ctrl +A at the top of the screen and paste into new MS document.
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p_JspTfLk59aFQU-mity5FQ

Course Participants

Here are the names and schools of the 2008 Introduction to School Libraries and Learning, Day2:
Alex Ludlam Alfriston College, Tracy Westall Avondale College, Rosie Curtis Bucklands Beach Intermediate, Susan Macklin Hato Petera College, Joanne Sussex Ponsonby Intermediate, Theresa Stanley Rosehill College, Laura Gordon and Sheena Pele Rosehill Intermediate, Joy Connolly Sancta Maria College, Rebecca Hanscamp Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate Junior School, Ebenezer Moses Tamaki College, Cheryl McKeown Te Atatu Intermediate, Lawrence Mane Te Wharekura o Manurewa, Rina Savage Clark TKKM o Hoani Waititi, Ana Ripia TKKM o Te Raki Paewhenua, Sharda Patel Western Springs College.(Some people are not in the photo)

Course Participants

Here are the names and schools of the 2008 Introduction to School Libraries and Learning, Day 1:
Louisa Grutzmacher Baverstock Oaks, Susan Southern and Nicole Early Chaucer, Elizabeth Ross-Collier and Leanne Neilson Clayton Park, Kay Shetty Dawson, Sharon Wilson and Fiona Yamamoto Ellerslie, Donna Warrington Glendene, Ann McKeown and Karen Lealiifano Holy Cross Henderson, Rhonda Mickelborough Kelston Intermediate, Fiona Evans Meadowbank, Victoria Brown Mt Eden Normal, Susan McKegg Orakei, Rachael Alizadeh Owairaka District, Brigid Mulrennan and Sherryl Compton Papatoeotoe East, Amanda Cumming Pomaria Road, Denise Job and Karen An Royal Road, Barbara Lowther St Joseph's Grey Lynn, June Jarka St Joseph's Onehunga, Trish Mohan-Druce Swanson, Heather Manning and Sarah Joliffe Warkworth (Some people are not in the photo)

Day 4 Troubleshooting

Library issues

Teachers removing books from the library without scanning them first. Although this is done with the best intentions it is hard to keep track of our library resources.

Day 4 Trouble shooting

I guess this problem is very common! And it is basic, but it boils down to management! And when you are not there,things happen. I try to keep on top of the librarians and get them to do their tasks in hand, but think some of them view coming to our Info Centre as monitors as an excuse to be out of class!It is keeping on top of all the shelving AND tidying too! An endless task I know. But you have to remember they are only primary school children...they just need to be guided by me and their teachers. It is a common space that needs respect too.

Day 4 Homework- Troubleshooting

Issue: We have had ongoing problems with student librarians, we had a fantastic screening process this year and got really good student librarians but they have not been as reliable as we would have hoped.
Leanne and Liz

New Zealands Biggest Storytime

Here is our principal Paul Wright reading as part of the Storytime. The children were enchanted.

Hope you are all having great library weeks!!

Review Journals for Library Staff and Teachers

Please click below to view spreadsheet.
Review Journals for Library staff and teachers

School Library Display Blog

The URL for the wonderful school library display blog has changed - click here to be redirected.

Book Club Models

From "The Teen-Centered Book Club" by Bonnie Kunzel and Constance Hardesty. Libraries Unlimited: Westport Connecticut, 2006 ISBN 1591581931

Read and discuss
Most traditional model and many adult clubs are run like this - Meet once a month to discuss one book that everyone has read – suitable for older readers – intermediate and secondary

Readers into Leaders
Members read a book and then come together to discuss it – just as in the read and discuss club. The difference is in how the book is discussed – firstly you introduce core leadership qualities (e.g. knowing yourself, managing your emotions, developing empathy etc.) Challenge the club members to keep those qualities in mind as they read and discuss and as they select books and take care of club business

Three-of-a-kind
This club meets three times only. Participants read and discuss a trio of related books, focussing on similarities, continuities and connections

Examples: Garth Nix’s Abhorsen trilogy, or Ann Brashares Sisterhood series. Or three books by different authors on a similar theme – e.g. “The Inner Life of Soldiers” – Three historic coming of age tales;
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
A Soldiers Heart by Gary Paulsen

Blogger
Clubbers read a pre chosen book, then email or pass on their comments to you. Once you have checked them for relevance and content you can post them on the Library’s Blogger Book club Webpage. When things get a little slow, you can post a provocative question. Books are selected by voting on a list of suggestions from members.

Theme or genre
You or the clubbers choose a theme. Only books that relate to that theme can be considered during book selection. Because they are open-ended, these clubs lend themselves to combinations: A sci-fi blogger club, a read-and-discuss mystery club, a fantasy book/movie club, and animal stories/be the change club.

Bookchatters
Informal version of read and discuss club – open to any student who wants to discuss anything that they have read. Make it informal and laid back – scatter cushions and beanbags, snacks etc- encourage students to do the talking.

Intergenerational Up
Student-adult – e.g mother/daughter clubs (get parents into the library) – After school student/guardian book club – can be run on any of the previous models mentioned – just make sure environment is safe, students feel free to speak up without being judged and that focus is student centred.

Intergenerational down
Mentoring and buddy reading


Read Write
All clubber read the same book, write their responses and read what they have written aloud. Or they read different books, or they write responses to what another clubber has written, or they use the setting or language as a starting point to create something entirely new – the idea is use reading as a starting point for a variety of writing activities.

Book to movie/movie to book
See the movie first and then read the book – focus on the greater detail of the book, depth and character development – discuss how the filmmaker may have been constrained to portray aspects of the book etc.

Flickr image - Reading by cesarastudillo

Link to School Library Listserve

If you wish to subscribe to the school library listserve, please click on this link and follow the instructions. The school library listserve is an email forum that will allow you to connect and communicate with other school librarians from all over New Zealand.

Links from Day 3 Session

Card Shuffle

Reading Course Handout
(you will need to change the layout to landscape to print this page)

Information Process Model Slide

Tasks for Day 4

Information Literacy and Reading Tasks

1. Plan an activity or strategy for supporting information literacy in the classroom or library.
OR
Describe an activity or a strategy that you have used to support information literacy in the school or library.

2. Plan a Reading Promotion for your school library. Bring your activity with you for Day 4.

3. Select a picture book and novel to take away to read. Review the books and then comment on suitability of books for your library on the blog. (See template provided.)

What to Bring for Day 4

• Draft Library Management Statement
• Reading Promotion Acitivity
• Information Literacy Strategy
• Procedures Manual

In fact bring everything that you have or have not completed during the year for this course! :-)

Kelston Intermediate Library

Kelston Intermediate is situated in beautiful West Auckland and caters for Year 7 and Year 8 students. Our Prinicipal, John Widdup, is our libraries biggest advocate so we are supported 100% in our aims to aquire a truely 21st century library.

To follow are the before and after shots of the work room. My inspiration is "simplicity" and if you are struggling with "clutter" then a fantastic blog called Zen Habits is the answer to your prayers. Just google Zen Habits and get inspired to purge your clutter and simplify your life. I was left with the legacy of 7 years of stuff!

BEFORE

Very dull and uninspiring,
Lots of stuff everywhere.


AFTER







SOME OTHER SHOTS FROM OUR LIBRARY




The issues desk
complete with
mirror balls!

Thanks for having a look at our library, it's great to be able to share thoughts and ideas through this blog.

love Rhonda

Homework Tasks from Day 2

SOME OF YOU ASKED FOR THE SLIDE SHOW FOR DAY 2. CLICK ON THE LINK IN THE RIGHT SIDE BAR - LINKS TO VIEW IT>

Task One – Library Visit
With your buddy visit a well run library .
Complete the checklist while you are there.
 
Task Two - Outline of Buying plan
Include:
a) a curriculum area/s that classes are studying this year that needs strengthening b) An area of recreational reading that could be strengthened e.g. more picture books with Pacific Island themes / characters.
c) An area in your reference section that needs strengthening
 
Task Three – Promote an e- resource
Describe how you showed/ promoted one e- resources eg -EPIC, Te Ara to a student or a teacher.

Sancta Maria College

Here are some photos of our library - computer area/non-fiction shelves, tables/fiction shelves, issues desk and work bench. The workbench is behind the issues desk, as we have no workroom or office in our library, so everything we do is done in this small space. We are actually in a 'temporary location' (so far into year 5 of this temporary arrangement, with at least another year to go). Once the library gets its permanent home the current space will become two classrooms with a workroon or resource room between them.

Finally i think i can do it...

Library Procedures: Donna at Glendene School

At the moment, I am training up librarians by working through some basic library responsibilities, such as tidying and ordering books on shelves, keeping things orderly and tidy, sorting out books for mending, reading to younger students and the general upkeep of library rules, such as no eating in the library.

Another area I am working on is the re-arrangement of classroom students and allocating bar codes to new students accordingly. I have added a class list to our issue folder, and I am checking off the names in each room. I also have new staff to arrange bar codes for as well. I am finding this a bit frustrating as I am struggling to remove or delete old names from the scanner, and reallocate the barcodes to new students. I did manage to do this earlier, but now can’t seem to repeat the procedure. L

Although this may not sound a large job, I guess I thought it was one that automatically got done (maybe by the library fairy) so I have had to learn how to delete names, add new ones and re-allocate issue codes. In fact, I am quite excited at being able to do this!!! It is taking a while, but I am enthused about it.

I am changing the displays in the library, and recently put up one featuring some of our students in the school pool having a great time! The children really enjoy seeing their peers in photographs.

I have also had some simple quizzes going, as fun and an incentive to get students using the library. This included the introduction of a new children’s magazine called Kidz Mag, which is a New Zealand publication. It is an amazing magazine, and I certainly prefer it to the Kidzone and Hot Wheels ones as it highly features New Zealand interests, but in a really appealing way for our children.

One of the other procedures which I have attempted is …. The BLOG!! How come something so simple, can be so hard!!! I have tried repeatedly, got a google account (followed the instructions for this) . and then wrote on the BLOG! Unfortunately, my partner was able to point out that I was sending the BLOG … get this…- MYSELF! And when I did put in the correct recipient, the note came up saying I could not do this on that account! Something to do with “cookies”, but I fail to see how I have to change or alter all the computer settings to et onto the BLOG!! Oh well, will keep on trying I suppose!

We are a small school of currently 144 students, however, there is a need to cater for the many diversities which I suppose are evident in all schools, sometimes however, it seems that there are so many needs pooled into our one small school. We have many special needs students and to many, the library is a haven for learning and a safe area to play in as well. I have provided a spot which has building blocks and lego type activities to cater for these students. We recently had a computer installed with access to the internet. The older students including the librarians are role modeling to the younger students how to use the computer effectively for research, and there is also a range of CD’s available for use at the lunch break.

There are many Pacifica students at our school, so there is an emphasis on displays that reflect this. We recently had a visit from staff at Robert Louis Stevenson School, and there is a display in the library featuring this. There is also often Pasifica books on display.
I really liked the photographs from one of the schools that featured an outdoor Summer reading area which is something that our principal is working towards.

Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate - Rebecca

Our School (S.E.H.C) is unique, in that we are cater for Years 1-13. There is a Junior, Middle and Senior school, with a roll of approximately 1300 students. The Collegiate is made up of mainly Pacific Island cultures. The Library serves all three schools, this means our collection ranges from Picture Books through to Encyclopedias. We are open from 8.00am - 4.00pm each School day.

































The Triptic of Mt Everest on the wall was donated to the school from the Auckland Museum following Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral. This was hung outside the museum on the day of the funeral, and presented with thanks for the Haka performed by the SEHC children outside the cathedral.















































































Following is our workroom; storage, 2 images of my workbench which currently has 3 projects on the go (Its a busy space!) The last pic is my boss's workbench.

Tamaki College Library

Post holidays MENPS!

The fairies came in the holidays...and had a MASSIVE tidy up and labelling session! Also have some photos of our Information Centre.

Susan Macklin Hato Petera College

BEFORE


The two pictures above are both of the library workroom and as you can see it was cluttered and "busy". I am loath to say untidy because this was after extensive tidying!



AFTER





These two are of the same areas after extensive cleaning, labeling, sorting and weeding of books and redistribution of materials. The area serves as a kitchen as well as being a favourite dumping ground for anything that staff members in the school don't know what to do with!! I had to be pretty brutal and throw away or squash into cupboards a number of miscellaneous books, pamphlets, computers, old staplers etc.




Alice from the National Library suggested that I share this poster with you. The Garfield poster is dark blue and got "lost" on the black background of the display case. I stapled it onto a big piece of white card, stuck some pictures of books that I cut out of old posters around it and suddenly it is eye catching!

I have been very impressed by the photos that have been displayed here. Some of the libraries are delightful! They make my mouth water!!!

Our school has in the region of 300 pupils. Up until recently the library didn't feature much in the students day to day lives but now that it is open every day for morning tea and lunch times it has become increasingly popular. We have bought some games too - mancala, checkers and Chinese checkers as well as the ever popular chess and as a result, the library has become a haven for some of the students.

We have also brightened the library up by displaying art that the students have done in art class.
The computer teacher has now become inspired and has started tidying up his room and begging the art teacher for student art for his walls too!!! ALL GOOD!

Owairaka School Library

I haven't taken "before" photos, but have tidied and re-labelled our work station and photographed the display I put up for the NZ Post Book Awards. We only have a small library so we try to make it as inviting as possible. We are awaiting the start of a new one ...yeh!

Baverstock Oaks School

The entrance to the library and new book display.













We also have a shoe rack at the entrance that can take up to 30 children's shoes.. Because we have over 750 children in the school, and the library is too small , we only allow 30 children at one time in the library over lunch times.
































This is the lay-out of the library..
Fiction













Non-Fiction and Sophisticated Picture













Magazines and Non-Fiction













Picture













During class time, the teachers make use of the
mat area to read stories to the children and to give
them Library assignments.


























We have an outside courtyard which is used in the
summer. The children love sitting outside and read.













This is my busy work area that I still need
to get time to sortout.