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County Home School Booktalks 2010 – 2011 School Year. Results of HCL staff and CHS resident surveys. Process. County Home School residents were surveyed as part of June 2011 booktalk Print surveys were put into Survey M onkey tool by Step-Up intern
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County Home School Booktalks2010 – 2011 School Year Results of HCL staff and CHS resident surveys
Process • County Home School residents were surveyed as part of June 2011 booktalk • Print surveys were put into Survey Monkey tool by Step-Up intern • Hennepin County Library staff who participate in booktalks program were surveyed in June 2011 • PowerPoint of most popular books during school year compiled by Marilyn Johnson, Outreach summer 2011 Step-Up intern
Survey of booktalkers: suggestions • Continue to recommend new books that might be of interest to CHS residents. • umm, make me less nervous? Unless you have a magic wand that erases stage fright, I think they are good as is. The time commitment is definitely substantial, so it would have been nice to get more off-desk time to work on my book talks, but that's probably not possible. • Have booktalkers complete a short report following each visit that gets shared with other booktalkers so that we get to share experiences and best practices, as well as titles/authors they are really interested in.
Survey of booktalkers: suggestions • Combining the smaller classes. • It would be great if we could get the booktalkers together once a year to share ideas, book that worked, etc. I think that a lot of what we learn and use carries over to working with other patrons. • Somehow figure out how to have more time during the work day to prepare the booktalks.
Survey of booktalkers: suggestions • Sub funds – It’s increasingly difficult schedule-wise to be able to go. • Prepare the students more so they know how to behave and have a sense of what to do. • Recruit more booktalkers so we could all go in groups of three.
Survey of CHS residents: comments • more urban books • bring books about food • More interesting books • Booktalkers need to stand up more • Booktalkers need to move around more • Show more fantasy, romance, and horror • Have peers/teenagers do booktalks • More energetic presence.
Next steps / recommendations • Share results with CHS teachers • Ask CHS teachers to share results with students • Share results with HCL booktalkers, and later all HCL staff
Next steps / recommendations • Booktalkers could present their experiences and what they’ve learned to other colleagues to recruit more booktalkers and gain support for the program. • Choose more books that reflect the interest of CHS students based on survey results. • Create opportunities for audience involvement within the booktalks to keep students actively engaged booktalks. • Respond to audience cues and adapt presentation style and content accordingly to maintain interest. • Suggest increased teacher intervention with disruptive behavior.
County Home School evaluation compiled by Angel Gardner, Outreach library school summer 2011 intern