John H. Walker Middle School Library Media Center Budget Presentation

Thank you!!  Thank you for what you have done and what you will continue to do for our middle school library. It is so greatly appreciated!

Steps Taken to Identify our Need  Step 1 : Detailed collection analysis of our current holdings in library  Step 2 : Collection of qualitative data from teachers and staff  Step 3 : Review of Common Core Standards in multiple content areas with a focus on PARCC development skills

Step 1: Recent Collection Analysis – Main Classification Percentages (by 100’s)

Recent Collection Analysis – By Age

Need to Update Non-Fiction Texts and Reference Texts/Materials I DENTI - FICA - TION R ANGE S UBJECT N UMBER OF ITEMS % OF C OLLEC - TION T OTAL A VERAGE A GE OF I TEMS IN S UBJECT T OTAL C IRCULA - TION IN 2014 S CHOOL Y EAR T OTAL C IRCULA - TION SINCE Biography %19967 items /.81% 1,289 items / 11.16% CI Current Issue %19950 items / 0% 85 items /.74% FIC Fiction % items / 97.79% 8,564 items / 74.13% OV Oversize961.10%19990 items / 0% 32 items /.28% REF Reference % items / 0% 14 items /.12% SC Story Collection 35.4%19880 items / 0%45 items / 0.39%

A C AREFUL A NALYSIS OF EACH D EWEY CLASS FOR N ON -F ICTION (E XAMPLE B ELOW ) I DENTIFICATION R ANGE S UBJECT N UMBER OF ITEMS % OF C OLLECTION T OTAL A VERAGE A GE OF I TEMS IN S UBJECT T OTAL C IRCULA - TION IN 2014 S CHOOL Y EAR T OTAL C IRCULATION SINCE Social Science 61.69% General Statistics 1.01% Political Science 36.41% Economics 69.79% Law 49.56% Public Administratio n 30.34% Social Services; Associations % Education 38.43% Commerce, Communicati ons, Transport 15.17% Customs, Etiquette, Folklore 70.80%1980 TOTAL in %19941 items / 0.12%167 items / 1.45%

Average Age Concerns  Average age = 1996  Updated Non-Fiction texts needed  Science and History – major concern

Step 2: Qualitative Data collected from teaching staff YlngWupdtpyitnW1pLh682KJU/viewformhttps://docs.google.com/a/nutleyschools.org/forms/d/1IIQO3C5DVCzwemzSuU YlngWupdtpyitnW1pLh682KJU/viewform.

Step 3: Understanding PARCC requirements  Need for great number of non- fiction texts including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs.  Need for more complex and sophisticated texts.

An Immense Need for Non-Fiction Texts of Great Complexity

R ECENT PARCC DEVELOPMENTS PERFORMANCE-BASED COMPONENT LITERARY ANALYSIS TASK NARRATIVE TASKRESEARCH SIMULATION TASK The Literature Task plays an important role in honing students’ ability to read complex text closely, a skill that research reveals as the most significant factor differentiating college-ready from non-college-ready readers. This task will ask students to carefully consider literature worthy of close study and compose an analytic essay. The Narrative Task broadens the way in which students may use this type of writing. Narrative writing can be used to convey experiences or events, real or imaginary. In this task, students may be asked to write a story, detail a scientific process, write a historical account of important figures, or to describe an account of events, scenes or objects, for example. The Research Simulation Task is an assessment component worthy of student preparation because it asks students to exercise the career- and college- readiness skills of observation, deduction, and proper use and evaluation of evidence across text types. In this task, students will analyze an informational topic presented through several articles or multimedia stimuli, the first text being an anchor text that introduces the topic. Students will engage with the texts by answering a series of questions and synthesizing information from multiple sources in order to write two analytic essays. Passage #1, #2, #3 W ILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL REFERENCE MATERIALS AND NONFICTION TEXTS

Utilizing Follett Destiny and Baker and Taylor we’re able to order the texts teachers’ need at various grade levels

Multiple Resources Utilized in Selected Grade-Level Texts  20 Outstanding Nonfiction Books - Core Essentials (2013)  2014 Summer Reading from The Horn Book: Middle School Fiction and Nonfiction - The Horn Book (2014)  A Full Circle Solution For Well Rounded Students (2014)  C. Friedman (2014) Great Nonfiction Book for Middle Schoolers  Infobase Publishing - School Library Streaming Video (2014)  Middle School Science (2014) from Booksource  Nonfiction Awards (2014) from American Library Association  Popular Middle School Nonfiction Books (2014), from Goodreads  Recommended Reading (2014) from A Retrieved November 19, 2014, from American Library Association

Our mission to meet the needs of diverse learners Need to develop an audiobook library to assist ELL learners and students with Individual Education Plans.

Reference Materials Shared with Nutley High School and district budget

J OHN H. W ALKER M IDDLE S CHOOL B UDGET P ROPOSAL Non-Fiction Print Texts Books…….....$8,500 (Baker and Taylor Vendor Discount %30 off) = $5,950 Magazines/Newspapers……………………………………………………..$500 Non-Fiction Audiobooks ………………………………………….……….....$500 Print Reference Materials …………..…………………………...…………..$1450 Online Reference Materials Gale Virtual Reference Library ……..……………………………...……..$2,600 Infobase (Facts on File) & Online Streaming..……..……………....…...$1,500 World Book Online………………………………………..…….…..………..$1,000 ABC-CLIO…………………………………………………………………...….$1,500 _________________________________________________________________________ TOTAL ………………………………..$15,000

 Carlos María Domínguez, once stated, “To build up a library is to create a life. It’s never just a random collection of books”.  PLEASE help us manifest our vision to provide our students with the best resources and non-fiction texts needed to

W ORKS C ITED 20 Outstanding Nonfiction Books - Core Essentials. (2013). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Summer Reading from The Horn Book: Middle School Fiction and Nonfiction - The Horn Book. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from books/2014-summer-reading-horn-book-middle-school-fiction-nonfiction/#_http:// books/2014-summer-reading-horn-book-middle-school-fiction-nonfiction/#_ A Full Circle Solution For Well Rounded Students. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Baker & Taylor School Selection. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from C. Friedman (2014). Great Nonfiction Book for Middle Schoolers. Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Infobase Publishing - About School Library Streaming Video. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Magazines. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Middle School Science. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Nonfiction Award. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Popular Middle School Nonfiction Books. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from Recommended Reading. (2014). Retrieved November 19, 2014, from