Year-End Report MHHSE Library

Goals Promote informational materials supporting Common Core integration. Create Narrative Nonfiction Resource List on Destiny For now, recommend nonfiction from ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound 2009 list - did not get to this, but we did assist teachers with finding articles with TEL as requested Feature at least 1 Narrative Nonfiction title and one informative website in each monthly newsletter. – We included a TEL Tip in each newsletter (TEL provides access to articles from periodicals) & offered 2 TEL workshops for teachers instead

Maintain or increase current levels of student circulations Goals Teacher encouragement to visit library & read! Individually & as a class! Student input for new books!

Student Circulations Students with 5+ CircsStudents with 1+ Circs vs. 0 Circs

Goals Increase percentage of students checking out books from the library. Goal of at least 70% of students checking out at least 1 book (achieved 64% ) Offer voluntary SSR training to teachers to encourage this practice in more classrooms. Offer 1 on 1 or departmental training in addition to tips via monthly newsletter. – We did not have any teachers request SSR training, but students reported having time to read in some of the classes with regular checkouts. Survey interests & attitudes of last year’s “non-readers” — address with purchases & policies – didn’t get to this either – plan to use a “Reader’s Attitude” survey as an exit ticket after Library Orientations next year Encourage more teachers to set up regular biweekly checkout visits for their classes. – Yes! Hancock, Dees, Styles, Humphreys, Rouse consistently brought their students to the library for biweekly checkouts!

Goals Continue to weed and develop target sections. 700s – Art, Sports, Music & Misc. Recreation +132 books – 396 books = 706 total items Raised Avg. © from 1977 to s – Language (avg. © 1982) Skipped over this section to weed Reference to make room for new Silent Reading & Study Area Biography (avg. © 1970) – decided to move Biography titles to most relevant Dewey section – ex. Athletes to 700s, Scientists to 500s, etc. – Will no longer have a “biography section” Reference – All Subjects books = 733 total items Raised Avg. © from 1976 to 1984 Use these free online resources instead!

Fundraisers Recycle America (ink cartridges) = $ Fall = $414 Spring = $248 $90 Fall check - Partnerships with JTEKT & NCR should result in larger summer check Fines Collected = $ (as of 4/30/2014)

East High supporters who linked their ValuCards raised $1, last year!! This is almost twice the donation! We purchased 146 books requested by students and teachers with these funds!

Dollar General Grant I Choose to Read – 2 nd year- $2,000 We worked with 1 class each of Hazelwood/Ray, Humphreys, Styles, & all Mrs. Johnson- Evans’s classes to select one fiction and one nonfiction title per student. As in the previous year, it was difficult to measure impact due to time constraints implementing regular checkout, in-class reading time, and other issues during the Fall Semester. A total of 64 students from these classes selected 128 books. The remaining 84 titles were selected by individuals students who regularly use the Library. We purchased 212 books total with these funds

Reading is the Way Up Grant $1,000 for Spanish Language Materials selected by students & teachers Purchased 32 books requested by individual students so far. Saved $500 to purchase requests in August.

HCBOE Funding Last year, we received $4,240 from HCBOE ($2.99 per student based on 1417 – Nov enrollment) Added 1,118 books and 2 AV materials = $18, value Total # materials added each year includes those purchased with grant funds and donations This year, we received $4, from HCBOE ($2.99 per student based on 1383 – Nov enrollment) Added 1,109 books and 7 AV materials = $18, value

Goals Increase use of quality informational text in both print & electronic formats to support Common Core integration. Create themed displays featuring quality informational text. Feature at least 1 Narrative Nonfiction title and one informative website in each monthly newsletter. Work with teachers to plan research activities using these quality materials.

Maintain or increase current levels of student circulations (8,759 circs ) Goals Continue to solicit student requests through visits to classrooms, social media, and library suggestion box & purchase as many requested materials as possible. Regularly change displays on 2 nd floor bulletin board and create themed booktalk podcasts – with help from Library Aides & SLAB Post pictures of students holding materials they requested on Library Facebook page. Encourage more teachers to set up regular biweekly checkout visits.

Goals Continue to weed and develop target areas in print collection. # Books needed based on Collection Analysis and Balanced Dewey recommendations for an enrollment of 1395 students with a goal of 10 books per student - Cost based on average YA hardcover price of $21.07 (March 2014) 600s – Technology, Health, & Cooking (avg. © 1989) – need 825 books = $17, s – Literature (avg. © 1972) – need 1,112 books = $23, s – Language (avg. © 1982) – need 247 books = $5,204.29

Goals Increase Awesome - delegate to SLAB Select no more than 4 students per grade level from Student Library Advisory Board (SLAB) applicants in August to provide suggestions & input regarding Library programming, policies, & environment SLAB provided valuable input into potential promotional activities, fundraisers, policy decisions, etc. at our monthly meetings during Advisory! Possibly also have SLAB members to assist with creation of promotional materials including posters, booktalk podcasts, social media posts, etc.