1. Endhaven Elementary School
Class Team Project
Endhaven Elementary School
April Getz
Lynne Bolick Reed
December 3, 2007

2. Endhaven Elementary South Charlotte “Learning Community”

3. Quick School Facts Principal is Beverly Newsome School mission:
“To foster a nurturing, challenging, safe school environment that will build a foundation for life-long learners.”
790 students
117 staff (25% with Master’s degree)
Boasts top scores on end-of-grade tests and has met “adequate yearly progress”

4. School Media Center Media Coordinator- Beth Kiger MLIS from UNC-G
Has one half-time assistant
Also has many parent volunteers

5. Media Center Mission Mission
“Ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information by providing instruction to foster competence and stimulate interest in reading. “
Relates strongly to the school mission statement to insure alignment of purpose

6. Media Center Goals
“To provide a program that serves as the information center of the school community, while creating a rich and  challenging learning environment.” 
“To collaborate with members of the school community and use this collaboration to connect students with ideas and information to prepare them for informed decision making, a love of reading, and the use of information technologies.”

7. A Quick Visit to the Media Center Web page

8. Fixed/Flexible Schedule for Students
Lower grades (K-2) visit once per week at a specified time
Upper grades (3-5) visit based on class and curriculum needs
Promotes collaboration between teacher and media specialist to implement information skills with classroom curriculum

9. Determining Collection Needs
What do the teachers need?
Example: 4th graders study rocks & minerals so she orders books for this grade level and teaches students how to do research on this topic.

10. Other Methods for Determining Collection Needs
Teacher suggestion box
Feedback from students
Suggestions from special subject teachers (music, art, etc.)
Browsing bookstores
Past use of materials
Demographics of the student population (percent of gifted students, etc.)

11. Media Center Funding
From CMS: $2,400 per year for materials (about $3 per child)
Also from CMS: $300 per year for periodicals
Core collection of books from Media Services (does not come out of her $$)
Donations (if they meet collection guidelines)
From the PTA: about $6,500 per year used mostly for books

12. Selection Tools School Library Journal reviews
Follett’s selection tools
Capstone Press catalog
Mackin (book jobber for K-12 media centers)

13. Favorite Vendor Bound to Stay Bound Books because:
Materials last longer
Stand up to heavy use and misuse by students
Prices are comparable to other vendors, but quality is better.

14. Automation & Cataloging Facts
Most of the materials are cataloged when they arrive from Media Services
She does a small amount of copy cataloging
Automation system is Horizon Information Portal by Dynix
Generates reports to justify requests for dollars and expenditures and for collection assessment (collection is still quite new!)

15. Weeding Policy No policy yet because school and collection is so new
Discards damaged books as they cross the desk
Does some small repairs like gluing spines
Believes that weeding will be more difficult to justify to parents than to the school administration

16. Preservation
Most important element of preservation is teaching the students the proper care and handling of books.
Uses furniture polish and alcohol-free baby wipes to clean materials.

17. Favorite Part of the Job
Variety of daily tasks
Principal lets her use the flex scheduling with older students
Watching the students grow and develop their research skills

18. Challenges Differing personalities and expectations of the teachers
Media center time is not “break” time for the teachers
She expects to work collaboratively with the teachers to meet the information literacy needs of the students
Fortunately, Dr. Gorman views the media center as a place for students to develop their thinking skills

19. And changing technology is happening really fast!
Vision of the Future
Increased need to be technologically literate!
Difficult because schools do not get new technology in a timely manner.
And changing technology is happening really fast!

20. A Tour of the Media Center
The book return
The check-out desk

25. Questions anyone?