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LMC Volunteers: Assisting Students and Promoting Reading

Welcome to the Reba O. Steck Elementary School LMC team! As a volunteer, you will greet students, assist them in finding books, check in and shelve books, and help promote reading through organized displays. Familiarize yourself with the Dewey Decimal System to assist students in locating books.

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LMC Volunteers: Assisting Students and Promoting Reading

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  1. Welcome LMCVolunteers Library Media Center Staff Mrs.JaneenChristakes Mrs.Kim Gough ParentVolunteers

  2. Priority#1:Students • Greetstudentswithasmileandmake • themfeelwelcome-Offerassistance. • Teachstudentshowtobeindependent • astheybrowsewithashelfmarkeror • usethepatron’scatalog • Help students locatetheirbook.

  3. Priority#2:Books Checkin,clean,sortandshelvebooks fromthestudentbookreturnandthe teacherbookreturn. Beonthelookoutforbooksneeding, newspineorbarcodelabels,repairor replacement(weeds).Pleaseputthem asidewithanexplanationpost-itnote. ShelvePRECISELY–Reviewthe “AboutShelving”guideinthe VolunteerPacket.   

  4. Priority#3: ReadingPromotion KidsDOjudgebooksbytheircovers. Howbooksarepresentedordisplayed isimportanttopromotingreading. Studentswanttofindthebooksthat theyarelookingfor.Readtheshelves (checkfororder)andstraighten shelveseverytimeyouvolunteer.  

  5. FictionSpineLabels: –EverybodyPictureBooks E BER Everybody Berenstain –FictionChapterBooks FIC KEH Fiction Kehret

  6. NonFiction: DeweyDecimalSystem Tolearnwiththestudents,  useour“DeweyWall”andthe shelfsigns. Tolearnmuchmoregoto “Do We Really Know Dewey?” and“Order in the Library”

  7. DeweyDecimalSystem 001-499 001–099Generalities  100–199Philosophy 200–299Religion 300–399SocialSciences 400–499Languages

  8. DeweyDecimalSystem 500-899 500–599NaturalScience  600–699AppliedScience 700–799FineArts& Recreation 800–899Literature

  9. DeweyDecimalSystem 900–999 900–969Geography&  History 970–973.9GeneralHistory ofNorthAmerica 974–979 UnitedStates 980–996.9OtherAreas

  10. NonFiction: DeweyDecimalSystem Shelvebynumberfirst Shelvebyfirstthreelettersof theauthor’slastnamesecond   398.2 AND Folk/FairyTales Anderson Eagles Bernhard 598.942 BER

  11. NonFiction: DeweyDecimalSystem Remember:  Thehundredsnumberdefines thegeneraltopic Thedecimalplacedigitsdefine thespecificsub-topics

  12. BecomeFAMILIARwith ourarrangement S FIC PER PRO REF E B DVD Dewey# FIC GN GR

  13. Remember “SteckKidscomefirst!” Wearenevertoobusywithprojectsanddeadlinesto stopandhelpastudent Smileandenjoyourchildren, makeanewfriend. Ifyouseebooksoutoforder, pleasefixthem. Gentlyremindstudentstouse shelfmarkers,helpingustokeep ourshelvesinorder. Encourageindependentuseof theLMC.    

  14. THANKYOU Wewelcomeyoutothe Reba O. SteckElementary SchoolLMCteam. 630-375-3520 janeen_christakes@ipsd.org kim_gough@ipsd.org

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