Boiling Springs High School Library Media Center

September 2011 Monthly Report

Boiling Springs High School Library Media Center

September 2011

Library Highlights

New Art Work! Tiffany H. has been commissioned to create art work to display in the library. The National Art Honor Society member is painting popular book covers on canvas. She has completed her rendition of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and is now at work on Unwind by Neal Shusterman.Bulldog Booklovers Club Meeting Sept. 26th 3:30-4:30 Nineteen students and four adults attended our second meeting this year. Details about the new READissance initiative (prize: Color Nook and B&N $50 gift card) were shared and the books for our next meeting were announced (Once a Witch and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children). Members were once again given the chance to be the first students to check out books from a new shipment.Banned Books Week This year marked the 30th annual celebration of our freedom to choose what we read during Banned Books Week. The library had a Banned Books Week display in both art cases in the media center’s lobby and sponsored a “Name that Challenged

Book” contest. Each day, a brief description of a challenged book was read during the announcements. Students who could correctly identify the book had their name entered in a drawing for a 2 GB flash drive. Rebecca L.wo n the flash drive by correctly identifying the book To Kill a Mockingbird.Literature Circles Mrs. Bullington, Mrs. Gray, and Mrs. Roberts (library intern) collaborated this month to create literature circles using library sets of popular YA titles. Students listened to six booktalks and chose the three titles that most interested them. Lit circles were created from the choices and students then read and discussed their assigned novel with their group. Used Book Sale The Bulldog Booklovers Club held a drive for used book donations and began selling them the last week of September as a club fundraiser. The sale will continue into the first week in October.

Instructional DaysAug Sept

Instructional Days 13 21# Days Library Open

13 21

Use of Physical Space

Student VisitsAug Sept

Independent 798 2199With a class 2403 4347Totals 3201 6546

Class Visits to LibraryAug Sept

English 24 28Business Ed 1 2Fine ArtsForeign Language 2 3GuidanceHome ArtsMath 3Science 1Social Studies 8 12Totals 39 45

Class Visits to the Computer RoomsAug Sept

English 9 51Business Ed 4Fine ArtsForeign Language 7 15Home Arts 3GuidanceMath 2Science 8 19Social Studies 24 24Sp. EdTotals 50 116

Resource Analysis

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REF FIC SC

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40 1086 49 65 20 6 8 15 27

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286

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September 2011 Circulation

Dewey Decimal and Collection Categories

Total Items Circulated

Equipment CirculationAug Sept

Faculty 25 71Student (computers)

151 738

Total 176 809

SC Streamline UsageAug Sept

Logins 27 51Videos/Segments Streamed or Downloaded

92 251

Aug Sept Sophomores 432 890Juniors 332 624Seniors 260 502Staff 64 266Totals 1088 2282