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Stories & Survival Tips From Year 1

Stories & Survival Tips From Year 1. Amy Fiske – Winchester High School MSLA-SIG March 31, 2012. Agenda. Tips – from people smarter than me What worked for me What I’m still working on. Plan/Focus. Pick three things Curriculum Web presence Fiction collection

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Stories & Survival Tips From Year 1

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  1. Stories & Survival TipsFrom Year 1 Amy Fiske – Winchester High School MSLA-SIG March 31, 2012

  2. Agenda • Tips – from people smarter than me • What worked for me • What I’m still working on

  3. Plan/Focus • Pick three things • Curriculum • Web presence • Fiction collection • Evaluate your progress periodically • Your three things may change • Curriculum – what they really need to learn • School/Library culture • Weeding, weeding, weeding

  4. School and Library Culture • Observe! • Where/How does the library fit into school culture? • What is the library culture currently? • What would you like it to be?

  5. A quieter moment

  6. Not quiet

  7. Hot Chocolate in Library • Turns library into café, which causes behavior issues • Students cutting class and hiding in library • I have to go to BJs every week • $3000 grant – could do other things with $

  8. Make Friends • Jump when they ask you to jump – within reason • Invite yourself to lunch • Talk to strangers • Give unexpected gifts • Enjoy yourself

  9. The Silk Road Bazaar • 14 World History classes • Different country/region per class • Trade, government, religion, art/culture • 2 lessons for each • databases & web evaluation • Outdated, not helpful print collection • 6 days • End product: Silk Road Bazaar

  10. Still working on… • The collection • 16,000 volumes/items • Collection age: 1982 • Web Site • Interim solution • Physical space • Old school design and philosophy • Clutter • Outdated/inadequate technology: 16 desktops circa 2000, 6 newish laptops, network shared with town.

  11. Library or Episode of Hoarders…? • 5 filing cabinets filled with articles from last 20-30 years • Not cataloged

  12. About 800 uncataloged copies of American Heritage…

  13. Dated Print Collection • Majority of books written in the academic language of the 1930s-1960s • On left, literary criticism from 1962 • We can do better

  14. Old Web Presence – Social Bookmarking Site

  15. Edline – Interim Web Solution

  16. Graveyard of Dead Technology • This area contained a microfiche reader, despite lack of microfiche to be read • Slide projectors, 20 slide carousels and no slides

  17. Not up to code…

  18. And there are mice…

  19. But they still come in

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