State of LNCS School Library

1. State of LNCS School Library By: DeShea Jones LIBS 6031 Dr. Munde

2. Lake Norman Charter Demographics • Public school serving students in grades 5 - 11. • LNCS receives funding from the state of North Carolina and supporting counties for instruction of its students. • The school opened for the 1998-99 school year • LNCS currently has 1,300 students enrolled in grades 5 through 11.

3. LNCS Information • At LNCS, our Motto is "Together we learn, lead and serve." • Mission Statement:  Lake Norman Charter School prepares students to be community leaders demonstrating personal integrity with a life-long desire to learn, lead and serve.

4. LNCS Information Cont. To meet school objectives, LNCS provides: • A challenging academic setting • A focused classroom size averaging 22 students in core classes • A strong discipline and honor code • A strong, cooperative atmosphere • High professional satisfaction and accountability

5. Our Library • Serves grades 5-8 • Serves about 800 students • Serves around 40 classroom teachers Our Resources • We have 30 desktop computers • 1 mobile laptop cart • Many videos and materials for teachers • Around 3,000 books for students to check out • 1 mobile presentation station

6. Today’s School Libraries • Ever-changing institutions that must meet the needs of a rapidly changing population. • Provide vital services to meet the needs of students and prepare them to be contributing and informed citizens in the global society. • Create lifelong readers, but must also help students learn to navigate the information age.

7. Challenges of School Library

8. Library a Set of Services • Library is a set of services that a librarian can provide to the patron regardless of whether there is a physical place to provide the services in. • In the future many more libraries will serve their customers through the web. • Today’s society wants flexibility and the comfort of doing things from their home via the internet.

9. Management Actions • Managers of libraries must embrace these changes. • A library manager in this new information and technology age must continually review the policies and function of their library to ensure they are meeting the needs of their users. • The librarian will focus on the content, quality, execution, delivery, and process of the services instead of focusing on the environment they are providing.

10. Steps the Library Can Take • Obtain the students and teachers involvement in the creation process. • Hold a meeting at the beginning of year to help patrons understand the library • Provide as much online content as possible to the students. • Collection development plan in place to avoid censorship

11. Leadership Philosophy Statement Values: • My leadership philosophy is focused on showing respect to everyone I come into contact with. • I want to exhibit honesty, ethical behavior, and practice continuous collaboration. Priorities: • As a School Media Center Specialist my main priorities will be to support the curriculum, create lifelong readers, and to help students become contributing members of society.

12. Explanation of My Leadership Values

13. Explanation of My Priorities

14. My Goals as a Library Leader • To open communication lines with teachers to help them understand the role of the library and what services are offered. • To self-audit the library and my performance to ensure the library is providing appropriate services and that I am performing at my highest level. • To recognize everyone’s accomplishments and abilities. • To ensure that the library is patron driven and I am helping my patrons.

15. My Goals as a Library Leader Cont. • To create a Mission Statement for my school library. This will enable me to show the school how the library fits into and supports the organization. • To create a Collection Development/Library Selection Policy. This will help to clearly communicate to the school and parents how the library makes the purchasing decisions. • To obtain National Board Certification. This will help me develop my leadership skills and gain more exposure to professional development.

16. Annual Cost of Operating a School Media Center

17. Expenditures per Student for Library Media Center Services as a Percentage of Total Instructional Cost

18. Our Budget Total Non-Salary Cost of Media Center per pupil $10.70 Total Operating Cost at school $82,159.37 Percentage of Instructional Cost 0.90% How We Rank: • We rank very low (below the 50th percentile). • Focus most of money on the collection • We participate in a lot of fundraisers, including book fairs and parents sponsor subscriptions.

19. The library stakeholder groups consist of… (in rank order) 1. Students 2. Staff 3. Parents/Guardians 4. Administration 5. PTO (Parent Teacher Organization) 6. Board of Directors/District 7. Community Members 8. Grandparents 9. Alumni

20. Influence of Top 3 Stakeholders on Library 1. Students- What the students find interesting and useful is what the library shall purchase. 2. Staff- Support the curriculum 3. Parents/Guardians- They can help the library provide services but they can also impede the library by wanting to perpetuate censorship.

21. Evaluation Framework

22. Evaluation Framework

23. Evaluation Framework

24. Evaluation Plan This chart shows what evaluation methods will be used for what groups:

25. Evaluation Plan Continued 1. During the period of September to January, data will be collected and analyzed. 2. The results of this analysis will be reported to each of the stakeholder groups and the school administration by email and the webpage. 3. The results will be reported by February and we will solicit additional feedback and make adjustments.

26. Conclusion • LNCS’s school library is a place that serves the community well. • Helps students, staff, and parents on a daily basis. • The library actively participates in helping develop student leaders • The library also help provide a rigorous curriculum to students • The library helps provide teachers with valuable classroom resources

27. Conclusion • The library faces many challenges, but is prepared to overcome those. • The library is seeking to improve it services to provide what is needed for today’s ever-changing technological society. • In the improvement process the library will speak with all stakeholders to obtain opinions and ideas.

28. Expect great things to come from the library!

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