Duties Responsibilities Terms to Know Explanations How to shelve How to check in & out

1. Library CoopforDummies Duties Responsibilities Terms to Know Explanations How to shelve How to check in & out

2. Who we are and why you’re important ~ • Coops are very important to the CSCISD Libraries. Our six libraries serve the needs of over 150 teachers and over 2200 students. • District-wide our collection consists of over 119,000 books valued at over 1.6 million dollars! • It is your responsibility to make sure materials are properly shelved, call numbers are in order, magazines and newspapers are current, and services and projects are provided on a professional and timely basis. • Your duties require an understanding of work flow, attention to details, and following rules. We do a lot of cleaning…the library should be a quiet, welcoming and appealing environment with book and student displays.

3. Properly Shelving Book Rules • Check call numbers around the items being shelved to verify correct order of shelf. • Books should be upright and if one or two items are too tall to stand upright, shelve them with their spines and call number facing up. • Items with call number labels or any other labels that need repair or editing, should be given to the campus librarian. • Books should be brought out to the edges of the shelves to make even, neat rows which is called blocking. • Each shelf should have a bookend with a rubber bottom at the end of the row. • Watch for crowded shelves and the black mark on the shelf which indicate the recommended space books should occupy. • Items with damage (mold, mildew, insect, or tears on/to covers, pages, etc.) should be given to campus librarian. Remove bits of paper, post-its and paper clips. • Shelves should be clean and cleaned on a regular basis in addition to an “As Needed” basis. • Any loose papers or library items left at the end of each row or on the floor should be picked up. If the area is kept tidy, the patrons will tend to leave it that way. • Refer any problems or questions to a supervisor -- DO NOT GUESS!

4. Library Coop Code & Conduct • Codes • All library coops will strictly adhere to the school district dress code and the Student Code of Conduct. You are an employee and representative of this district and library. • Behavior • This is a job – YOU MUST be on time. Classes and schedules are dependent on everyone being on time and doing their job. There will be days when over 100 students will come to the library and we cannot be disciplining our Coop students while assisting the teachers and students. You stay employed because you’re doing more than your job. • No gum, cell phones, or goofing…Mrs. Little doesn’t like to see anyone just sitting and neither will your future employer. There is plenty to do and we expect you to carry more than your weight. • If you should have a problem with a student or teacher, please notify one of the librarians. • Confidentiality is VERY Important – what patrons read and what you see and hear in a school are private and protected.

5. Some of your job tasks… Daily Routines • Shelve books – This is the most important part – all books must be in order • Be on time • Clean, Clean, Clean • Block your shelves • Clean your shelves • Be sure magazines and newspapers are in order • Clean, Clean, Clean • Identify shelves that need shifting and re-shift • Turn computers on and off Additional Assignments • Re-shelve books • Clean, Clean, Clean • Book Displays • Vacuum your area and parts of library • Laminating • Die-Cut Jobs • And anything else we didn’t cover ;)

6. Things to Know • Work maximum 15 hours/week • Short Schedule & Student Holidays – you will be asked to work • Must eat meals on your own time and not library time or in library • Must also follow school rules • Coops must • Clock-in at library • Stay in libraries • Not be talking with friends or putting on makeup while working • When you arrive and leave, let librarian know • Shelving is fun at first, then kind of boring, then awful, then it will be like breathing! • And always…with a smile! • Words To Know • Call Number – A group of letters and or numbers located on the spine – also know as a books’ address • Bar Code – Number identifies that specific copy • Marc Record – this is all of the information on a certain book • Copy – This is the physical book that is bar-coded and listed as a copy under its marc record • Destiny – OPAC-Online Public Access Catalog, database of all of the library’s holdings that have been entered into the system • Destiny Reset Button – After checking out books, this must always be clicked to remove the patron’s information, preserve privacy, and correct screen for next patron

7. Melvil Dewey • Dewey • Melvil Dewey, 1851-1931. American librarian and founder of the decimal system of classification (1876). A classification system organizing ALL books – including fiction. • Sample Dewey numbers for fiction are: • 813 - American literature in English • 398 & 398.2 - Folk and fairy tales

8. Fiction & Non-Fiction Non-Fiction BooksArranged by subjects • Non-Fiction – Arranged by subject category and organized into the Dewey Decimal Classification System within ten large classes (000 – 900’s); • There is always 3 numbers to the left of the decimal. • NF Books are located in the center of the upper library • B or 92’s = Biography and located under the window and in order of the last name of who the book is about • Non-fiction books are shelved by:1st Line - Dewey call number2nd Line – Author Last Name3rd Line – First 3 letters of title • Biography books shelved by:1st Line – B or 922nd Line – First 3 letters of who book is about3rd Line – First 3 letters of author’s last name Fiction Books Alphabetically order by author’s last name ~ 1st line: F for Fiction; 2nd line: 1st three letters of author’s last name; 3rd line: 1st three letters of book title ~ If a title begins with an “A”, “An”, or “The”, then you go to the second word in the title. F FF FF MEDVID KAR TRE TOB If the 2nd line of the call number is the same, then you go to the 3rd line to put the book in the correct place. F F FF F MED VID KAR LIT LIT TUR DES BOY LIB CLE If it’s a fiction book and you know the author’s last name then you can easily find his/her books.

9. Do the “Dewey” • Dewey can get you cross-eyed, but just remember one simple rule: • Shelf Arrangement is done in column-by-column sequence- • Start with the 1st column – Low-to-high • Then arrange by 2rd column – Low-to-high • If they have same numbers – go to second line for alpha order

10. Can You Put Me In Order?? Library Challenge Mrs. Lodge’s Shelve-It Order in the Library

11. Checking Books In & Out • Be sure correct patron is on screen before you check out • ALWAYS CLICK ‘RESET’ AFTER PATRON • Note “View” at top – for HS only

12. Privacy is essential to the exercise of free speech, free thought, and free association. The courts have established a First Amendment right to receive information in a publicly funded library.    1Further, the courts have upheld the right to privacy based on the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.    2Many states provide guarantees of privacy in their constitutions and statute law.    3Numerous decisions in case law have defined and extended rights to privacy.    4 • In a library (physical or virtual), the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one’s interest examined or scrutinized by others. Confidentiality exists when a library is in possession of personally identifiable information about users and keeps that information private on their behalf.    5 • Protecting user privacy and confidentiality has long been an integral part of the mission of libraries. The ALA has affirmed a right to privacy since 1939.    6Existing ALA policies affirm that confidentiality is crucial to freedom of inquiry.    7Rights to privacy and confidentiality also are implicit in the  Library Bill of Rights’    8guarantee of free access to library resources for all users. • Rights of Library Users • The Library Bill of Rights affirms the ethical imperative to provide unrestricted access to information and to guard against impediments to open inquiry. Article IV states: “Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgement of free expression and free access to ideas.” When users recognize or fear that their privacy or confidentiality is compromised, true freedom of inquiry no longer exists. • In all areas of librarianship, best practice leaves the user in control of as many choices as possible. These include decisions about the selection of, access to, and use of information. Lack of privacy and confidentiality has a chilling effect on users’ choices. All users have a right to be free from any unreasonable intrusion into or surveillance of their lawful library use. • Users have the right to be informed what policies and procedures govern the amount and retention of personally identifiable information, why that information is necessary for the library, and what the user can do to maintain his or her privacy. Library users expect and in many places have a legal right to have their information protected and kept private and confidential by anyone with direct or indirect access to that information. In addition, Article V of the Library Bill of Rights states: “A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views.” This article precludes the use of profiling as a basis for any breach of privacy rights. Users have the right to use a library without any abridgement of privacy that may result from equating the subject of their inquiry with behavior. Privacy & Confidentiality in a library Information from American Library Association website and CSCISD has adopted the Library Bill of Rights.

13. Hide & Seek • There is a book hiding on the wrong non-fiction shelf, so you must find the book by looking at the book titles and seeing which title does not belong in that subject area. • Then you must put the book back where it belongs.