Libraries 101
Libraries 101
Libraries 101
Liz Eckert
Paralowie R-12 School
[email protected]
http://lizeckert.weebly.com/
@TL_Liz
WHY?
What is at the
heart of your
library
Clients
Students Teachers/SSOs
Learners and learning
(SLIDE NOTES A)
• Know who your target audiences are and
what they like to read
• For Example:
• Students
age range of students Years: R-6/7, R-12,
7/8-12
Picture Books to support teaching areas
(don’t ignore them for secondary students)
Manga/Graphic Novels (sometimes these
are your hooks to reading)
Magazines
What areas are of interest to your students
CBCA book week books
Learners and learning
(SLIDE NOTES B)
• Staff (Teacher Reference)
gaps in collection
age of collection and does it represent
current curriculum needs (ie no Bands and
Strands / SACSA / Statements and Profiles)
Other professional reading
Checkpoint
What is it like for a new staff member
or student walking in to your library?
• Roles
• Go digital!
Plan & Document
The Big Stuff (SLIDE NOTES)
• Mission / Vision - Link this to your school’s site
improvement plan
Who is it for?
• Print
• Non-Print
• Audio Visual
• Digital
• Virtual/ Web-based
RESOURCING THE CURRICULUM
What? (SLIDE NOTES A)
• Print
– Must earn their place – Cull (consider the age of book
as a guideline/popularity/borrowing history)
– Curriculum materials – changes to curriculum eg
science, HASS
• Non-Print
– Must earn their place - Big Books/ journals /
Databases?
– tools to use?
– Videos /DVDs/CDs in Kits and TR – separate storage
or with book that it came with?
Which will allow easiest/most access to materials?
– “AV” equipment (external DVD/CD drives?)
RESOURCING THE CURRICULUM
What? (SLIDE NOTES B)
• Audio Visual
– Main options if not doing own recording / DVD only
EnhanceTV
TV4Education
Clickview
• Digital
– Access / Tools
– Licences?
• Virtual/ Web-based
– 24/7 access ….. To what? – catalogue,
blogs, library webpage?
– Curation / ongoing
RESOURCING THE CURRICULUM
Where from?
• Print
• Curriculum / Non-Print / Digital
• Virtual / Web-based
• Recommendations
RESOURCING THE CURRICULUM
Where from? (SLIDE NOTES A)
• Print
– Specialist local booksellers - Pegi Williams/ St
Georges /
– Other shops – eg Dymocks, Big W, Kmart (can
be a source of cheaper popular books eg
Andy Griffiths books, Guinness World Records
etc)
– On-line – Wheelers, Overdrive (ebooks)
– Subscription – Lamont/ ASO/ Scholastic
– ? Online ordering from websites like
Fishpond/Book Depository/Booktopia –
depends on local setting
RESOURCING THE CURRICULUM
Where from? (SLIDE NOTES B)
• Curriculum eg Literacy / Non-Print / Digital
– Publishers
– Organise catalogues (one in, one out)
– Who manages licences? This is a question for the local
site level – some may have subject areas managing,
some have library staff managing
• Virtual / Web-based
– List servs, social media
– Curation ongoing
• Recommendations
– Suggestions – students & staff requests, slips,
hub groups, surfing,
– online elists eg slasanet & oztl_net
Checkpoint
How are you managing the changing balance
between print / digital/ virtual?
• Curriculum decisions
• – Teacher librarian decisions
• Resource organization processes
• - Trained SSO
• – Agreed processes supported by
documentation
• Resource organization routines
• – Volunteers, including students
• – Supported by documentation and
examples
Processing decisions
Flow chart / Cards
1. Collate new 7. Modify catalogue record
materials (PRC/Lexile/Accelerated
2. Add Reading etc as required)
purchase 7a. Copy catalogue if
details needed
3. Stamp 8. Not On SCIS – Hand
4. Barcode catalogue
5. SCIS search 9. Spine labels
6. Up load SCIS 10. Cover
data. Loan 10a Non –book
to In Process materials
6a. Add 11. Check
purchase
details.
Processing decisions
Flow chart / Cards (SLIDE NOTES A)
• Some of these steps will depend
1. Collate new materials
2. Add purchase details
3. Stamp
4. Barcode
5. SCIS search (if not on SCIS see Step 8)
6. Upload SCIS data.
• 6a. Add purchase details to LMS.
7 Modify catalogue record
Check and add PRC* (and other local system needs
eg Lexile / Accelerated Reading )
TL to add additional subject headings
• 7a Copy catalogue – if wanted for separate copy in
catalogue records (sometimes needed for different
editions of resources or different subcollections eg
general shelves & text book version) Sometimes
magazines can be done this way for additional years
Processing decisions
Flow chart / Cards (SLIDE NOTES B)
8 Not On SCIS – Hand catalogue o
9 End process – Spine labels
10 End process – Cover - contact or plastic?
Depends on your local setting
• 9a End process – Non –book materials
• 10 Check - sometimes mistakes are made
Processing decisions
1. Collation of new resources
(TL & SSO)
• Urgency?
• For whom?
• Packaging?
– Do any processing decisions need to be made
• Un-solicited materials
– Selection policy?
• Then – get it on the system
Processing decisions
1. Collation of new resources
(TL & SSO) (SLIDE NOTES)
• Urgency?
• For whom??
• Packaging eg Kit or separate items? Do
any processing decisions need to be
made
• Un-solicited materials – keep ? How Many
copies? Selection policy?
• Then – get it on the system quickly!
Processing decisions T/L
7 Modify catalogue record
Consistency is the key - Its all about
systems!
https://www.biblio.com/book-collecting/basics/how-to-identify-first-editions/
Processing decisions – T/L
11 Check
• Mistakes happen!
• Shelve, promote, loan??
Processing decisions – T/L
11 Check
(SLIDE NOTES)
• Mistakes happen!
• Shelve, promote, loan?? What’s
your next step in allowing
access to materials?
• Do you:
New Books display (not for loan
during this?)
Reserve Books
Straight to requester
Checkpoint
What processes do you have in
place to make sure that resources
are
accessible to your users,
but consistently catalogued and
processed?
Circulation
Decisions
• Restricted items? Only items which could not or
should not be used by users should be restricted.
• Who do you loan to? Loan limits?
– Staff - personal , bulk, year ,
– Students textbooks, general collection
materials
– parents?
• How can users be independent borrowers
– Set up simple systems, cues and signals
– The roster!
– Self checkout?
Circulation
• Decisions
(SLIDE NTOES)
• Restricted items? Only items which could not or should not be
used by users should be restricted.
Depends on local setting R-12 schools may have sub-
collections to restrict items to appropriate age/maturity eg
JNR F/NF, Middle School F/NF, Senior F/NF, 15+ labelling
Overides possible with parental written permission?
• Can be done by
– location – eg TR /AF
– Call Number – PF / SPF
– Restriction category
• Who do you loan to? Loan limits?
– Staff - personal , bulk, year
• How can users be independent borrowers
– Set up simple systems, cues and signals (sounds)
– The rooster!
– Self checkout – is this an option for your setting?
Checkpoint
What processes do you have in
place to make sure that resources
Can be restricted to some users if
necessary but available to other users,
Can be borrowed independently by all
users?
How do you manage staff loans
including bulk loans and year
loans, in a timely way?
•Table discussion
Checkpoint
What do you do to
maximize access for staff
and students without
compromising the learning
program and stock
control?
Volunteers
• Who?
– Parents ?
– Students ?
• Training
• What can they do?
• Systems to support
– Shelving trolley
– Labelling
• Recognition?
Volunteers
(SLIDE NOTES)
• Who?
– Parents ? - DCSI clearance
– Students ?
• Training
• What can they do?
• Systems to support
– Shelving trolley
– System cards
– Labelling
• Recognition/Acknowledgement
of their activities?
Checkpoint
How do you utilize parent
volunteers and student
volunteers without
compromising standards?