All students should have equal access to all available resources in the school media center. I will promote a media center with flexible scheduling options in order to help me meet the research and library needs of the entire school. I plan on bringing in all sixth grade students during the first month of school for an extensive media center orientation where we not only talk about our available resources, but also take a walking tour of the facility so students can visually see where the resources are located. The orientation will include a lesson on how to log in to our school's network using the student's unique username. While online, I will identify the online resources available for use both in the media center as well as from home. A handout containing web addresses and usernames for remote web access will be compiled and distributed to each student at the conclusion of the orientation, and copies will be made available throughout the school year.
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I decided to make browsing the shelves for books easier for our middle school students. For approximately 5,000 fiction books, I cross-referenced subject headings in the patron's catalog with matching spine label stickers, so students could either browse the shelves or search the catalog for the types of books they wanted to read. While the stickers are mostly self-explanatory, I made several posters that displayed each of the genre stickers I used, and hung them throughout the fiction section, with one placed at the circulation desk. The posters and the stickers allow students of all abilities and reading levels to locate the types of books they enjoy reading without having to log in to the patron's catalog. I feel that middle school students are at risk for losing the desire to read for pleasure as their schedules become busier and their schoolwork more rigorous. Helping these students locate books quickly may help deter the decline of reading interest because there is simply not enough time to find a good book. |
