LARNED HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARYNOVEMBER MONTHLY REPORT

GWEN LEHMAN, LIBRARY MEDIA SPECIALIST PAM FITZGERREL, LIBRARY ASSISTANT

Kansas Library Snapshot Day

Ever wonder what life is like on a typical day at the LHS Library? Through the combined efforts of the Kansas Library Association, the Kansas Association of School Librarians and the State Library of Kansas, Kansas Snapshot day was developed to highlight the services provided by public, school and academic libraries on a daily basis.

On November 18th, the LHS Library participated in the 2nd Kansas Snapshot day. We provided students with a brief survey and a small "Thank You" for their input. Out of 126 completed surveys, the top three reasons for using the library are checking out resources, working on research and homework, and attending the Scholastic Book Fair. We also asked students what addition technology they would like added in the future. The consensus was 1 to 1 computers with the iPad being the preferred device. About 20 students would also like to see eReaders available for checkout by students.

Finally, we asked students what they wanted to tell us about the library and library staff including any changes they think we should make. Most students indicated that the library is a friendly and inviting place to be. The staff are helpful and polite. However, the top changes they would like to see are more "comfy" seating, increasing the library size and adding more books. Upon reflection, it could be interesting to ask the students what tasks they think the library staff perform throughout the day.

Scholastic Book Fair

The LHS Library held it’s third book fair November 17th through the 23rd. With eager anticipation, members of the TAG Team began planning for the book fair back in September. It was decided to center the book fair around the game Candyland. Students created posters and flyers to advertise the book fair. Mr.s Johnson helped with Candyland decorations by loaning us life-size replicas of the Candyland characters and house. Finally, the students cut paper squares to create a Candyland board path from the front of the school to the book fair. Some of the squares contained advertisement for the book fair, penny war and bake sale.

The TAG members also decided to hold a bake sale in conjunction with the book fair. Members brought brownies, cookies and cupcakes to sell at the book fair. Approximately, $80 was raised through the bake sale (these funds were added into the library activity funds).

In collaboration with Student Council, TAG Team members held a Penny War between the classes during the first week of the book sale. The proceeds

were used for the One 4 Books programs, which encourages schools to raise money for the purchase of books for an organization in need or their own school. We decided to use the funds to purchase books for the Westside School.

TAG members also distributed flyers around town, worked retail at the

book fair and helped clean-up after the book fair. TAG Team members learned real-life application skills pertaining to business planning, advertisement and customer service.

After closing up the fair, the students asked, “When is our next book fair?”

BOOK FAIR RESULTS

TAG Team members signed up to work the book fair before, during

and after school.

Students enjoyed perusing the book selections at the book fair.

Book Fair Sales $2316Free Books $931Credit $434Penny War Total $262 Penny War funds were used to purchase books as a donation to Westside School

CANDYLAND THEME

TAG Team students created a Candyland Theme for the Scholastic Book Fair. Mrs. Johnson helped by loaning us these life-size Candyland replicas

LHS LIBRARY INTERNET IDENTITY

Card Catalog: Allows students and staff to search the collection at school or home, access eBooks, renew & place holds on books--http://98.172.116.51/simple/?sessionid=1NYR545AQ36404832

LHS Library Blog: Information relating to books, technology, events, news and more--http://lhslib2007.edublogs.org/

LHS Library Facebook Page: Updates on events, programs, books and more--http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Larned-KS/Larned-High-School-LMC/221632271653

LHS Library Website: General information on library policies & procedures, programs and Teen Advisory Group--http://www.usd495.net/150620171264587/site/default.asp

LHS Library Delicious: Collection of bookmarks selected specifically for the needs of staff & students at LHS--http://www.delicious.com/lhslib2010

LHS Library Flickr: Shared photos--http://www.flickr.com/photos/socdownload/

Mission

The Larned High School Library will be an inviting, user-friendly hub providing opportunities for active, engaging and challenging learning for students and staff through various media resources, programming and collaboration. The LHS Library will provide a quality program that will enable students to be lifelong learners and enhance the curriculum and technology standards of Larned High School.

LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, NOVEMBER 2010LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, NOVEMBER 2010LHS LIBRARY STATISTICS, NOVEMBER 2010

Total Circulation 655655

9th Grade Circulation 133133

10th Grade Circulation 8888

11th Grade Circulation 7474

12th Grade Circulation 119119

Other 227227

Card Catalog Total Page Hits 221221

LHS Library Blog 1212

LHS Library Facebook Page Active

Users

4242

Kan-ed Application Usage Totals 7171

Interlibrary Loan--Loaned Total 99

Interlibrary Loan--Borrowed Total 1212

Filled Denied

Total Resource Requests 38 2

Computer(s) - Desktops in Library 9 0

Computer(s) - Laptops 23 2

Projector - Computer/Video 2 0

TV with DVD & VCR 3 0

Video Camera/Camcorder 1 0

Data Snapshots