1. Lovinggood Middle School Media Center Report October 28, 2009
Presented by: Renee Crumley
MEDT University of West Georgia
Fall 2009

2. Circulation Information
Average Yearly Circulation: 12,725
Average Yearly Number of Books Used Per Student: 9.5
Average Weekly Class Visits for Check Out: 2
Average Student Daily Passes for Check Out: 50

3. Class/Student Usage Weekly Class visits: Media Specialist taught: 5
Teacher led research/computer use: 3
Student Usage per Day Average:
Before School Average: 25
During School Average: 50
After School: 5

4. Teacher Collaboration
Weekly Team Collaboration: 3 teachers
Professional Learning and Planning/Instruction: teachers per week
Specific Unit Collaboration: 2 teachers per week
Preview of “new” web sites, data bases, journal articles and programs: as needed

5. Book Talks Presented as “New” books arrive: 3-4 times per year
Sixth grade collection exploration: 10 days per year with 5 classes per day
Daily as requested by students browsing for “free” read
Twice annually with teachers to present new professional books

6. Budget Maintain consideration file from all subject areas
Active solicitation of requests from staff and students
Routine meetings with administration for budget planning
Media/Technology Committee input and suggestions

7. Equipment Inventory/Usage
Five Laptop Carts with 16 computers and printer per cart
Full usage 4 Days per Week with 1 Month Advance Check-Out
5 Reserve LCD Projectors for used if mounted equipment not functioning (2 Times in past year)
6 Teacher Laptops for check-out as needed (Checked out daily when equipment fails)

8. Average Copyright Dates
Average Collection Age: 2003

9. Collection Ballance Lovinggood Collection on Left (Aqua)
Recommended collection on Right (Gold)
*Biographies are classified as 921 and Easy are classified with Fiction (FIC)

10. Check-Outs:
Total Annual Check-Outs: 11,177
Breakdown of Check-Outs by Dewey Numbers as Percentages

11. Implications for the Future
Lovinggood Middle School opened for the school year The average age of our print collection dates to The data indicates that the majority of use is in the fiction and biography collection. Fortunately, this media center’s print resources are in decent shape as revealed by the collection analysis.
Classes schedule media center usage for research primarily for online resources and the non-fiction collection is underutilized. However, data base instruction and use drives many of the collaboratively taught lessons.

12. More teacher collaboration is needed that highlights information trends and student needs. Focus should be placed on student awareness of resources and encouragement of usage of available resources.
Funding should have some focus on future needs as technologies evolve. I have purchased more current fiction such as the Japanese comic style books and recently released fiction and this has increased circulation and student media center visits. Internet based non-fiction has become more of a focus since this information changes more rapidly than print collections can keep up. Reliable Internet sources are taught with consistent focus on correct citations.
Continued planning, collaboration, and funding is necessary to the continued level of success as Lovinggood Middle School strives to meet 21st Century goals with 21st Century prepared students.

13. Resources Destiny Reports (Automated Library System 9.0)
Follett Titlewave Collection Analysis: Run October 23, 2009
Groupwise Media Center and Resources Calendars